Khajuraho: The Devices for Meditation

As far as Freud is concerned, I wish to explain to this particular friend that it is quite probable Freud was not aware of what I am telling you here. Freud was one of the few seers who guided mankind in the direction of sexual liberation, but he had no idea whatsoever that spiritual sex existed. The knowledge Freud systematized was that of sick sex; his research was with the pathological. Freud was a kind of doctor and his discoveries were used like treatments, doled out to sick people. Freud hadn't studied normal, healthy sex. He was a research scholar dealing in sickness, in perversion, and his mind was primarily set on treatment, on cure. Therefore, if you are bent on confirming the truthfulness of what I say, you will have to turn to the philosophy of Tantra.

Question: BELOVED OSHO, YOU HAVE BEEN USING THE KEY WORD "DEPROGRAMMING" TO DESCRIBE YOUR WORK. THE TECHNIQUES THAT YOU HAVE SUGGESTED DURING THESE YEARS, GO FROM CHAOTIC AND DYNAMIC MEDITATION TO THE MODERN THERAPEUTIC SCHOOL. I WOULD LIKE YOU TO EXPLAIN IN BRIEF WHY YOU HAD TO CREATE NEW MEDITATION TECHNIQUES LIKE KUNDALINI MEDITATION OR DYNAMIC MEDITATION, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A TRADITION ALREADY INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF TECHNIQUES FROM YOGA, SUFISM, BUDDHISM ETC. WHAT IS ALSO SURPRISING TO THE WEST IS THAT YOU ARE USING THERAPIES SUCH AS GESTALT, PRIMAL, ENCOUNTER, IN YOUR COMMUNE. IS IT REALLY NECESSARY? THE SUSPICION IS THAT YOUR SECRET INTENTIONS ARE NOTHING BUT TO BRAINWASH PEOPLE'S MINDS, AND THAT CANNOT BE TOLERATED BECAUSE YOU ARE TOUCHING THE MOST PRECIOUS THING THEY HAVE. Just in Khajuraho there were one hundred temples; only thirty have survived, seventy have been destroyed by Mohammedans.

Have their levels become one? Yes. The moment consciousness reaches a single plane, everything becomes one. To put it properly: their faces became the same; there was no difference among the faces. The eyes may have remained different, but what began to look out through them—the seer—became one. The lips may have remained different, but the speech that began to flow became one. Within, everything became one.

Kama is the outer wall of life; Ram is enshrined within. So long as you are entangled in kama, you cannot go within. But if someone keeps circling and looking at all those copulation figures—how long can one go on looking? He tires, he becomes bored; then he says, “Now the temple—let’s go inside.” And inside he finds great rest, because another world begins there. So when, in the endless journeys of life, we tire of the life of sex—wandering outside and outside—one day the mind will say: enough now; enough seen, enough enjoyed; now, let us go within. This fact some carved and left in stone—those who knew, left it. From the experience of Tantra it became clear to them: there are only two kinds of life—either of kama or of Ram. And kama is the outer wall of Ram’s temple. So it is not that kama is the…

So the secret places about which I am talking have their doors and there are methods through which one can enter them. There are arrangements and special inner spiritual conditions for reaching there. All the rooms and halls of the pyramids have been built in accordance with certain pre-determined measurements. You may have experienced sometimes that where a roof is set rather low, although it does not touch you, you feel that something within you is compressed, contracted. Nothing actually compresses you, but within you something feels compressed. When you enter a place where the ceiling is very high, you have a feeling of something expanding within. The measurements of a room can be calculated in such a way that meditation becomes very easy for you. The exact measurements for a room that makes meditation most easy were determined after experimentation.

A friend has asked one more thing in this regard. He asks: Osho, we cannot regard you as any authority, any authentic person, on sex. We came to ask you about God, and you started talking about sex. We came to hear about God. So please tell us about God!

A man was taken to a psychologist. He worked in an office, and he was very upset with his boss. Whatever the boss said felt like an insult, and he felt like taking off his shoe and hitting him. But how can you hit the boss with a shoe? Though it would be hard to find a servant who never thought, “Let me take off my shoe and hit him.” Such a servant is rare. If you are a boss, you know it; if you are an employee, you also know it—that being a servant hurts deeply, and one feels like taking revenge. But if the servant could take revenge, he wouldn’t be a servant. So the poor fellow keeps suppressing and suppressing. His condition became so bad that he feared, “Someday, in a fit, I may actually hit him.” So he started leaving his shoes at home. But all…