Fantasies are noisy mind-games; when they stop, you feel quiet, loving, and happy inside.
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Osho, I have a lot of fantasies, especially sexual ones. Even though I see how they are taking me away from life here and now, I let myself be dominated by them. According to astrology, a scorpio has especially strong sexual desires. I am a scorpio. Have my fantasies anything to do with that? I would like to drop them because they make it difficult for me to relax and I think they are a large part of my prison. Could you please indicate a way?
It simply shows you are really a religious person! Such great problems arise only for religious people. These are good signs. Having sexual fantasies is an indication that you are reaching towards a higher plane of spirituality. It happens only on higher planes of spirituality! Ordinary mortals don't have such things. They may have sex, but they don't have sexual fantasies. And sex in the genitals is perfectly good, but in the head... everything becomes topsy-turvy! But religious people have been doing that for centuries. It is a kind of sirshasan -- headstand. They stand on their head so the sexual energy, just because of gravitation, starts going in their head! Either physically they do the headstand or psychologically. But remember, everything belonging to its own center is healthy; whenever it starts entering into another center, into the territory of another center, you are going insane. But the so-called religious…
I often fantasize about you. I imagine talking with you, going for a walk, having tea, and other situations. It gives me a feeling of closeness to you and it is comforting. But sometimes I worry: maybe I'm just strengthening another dream and shouldn't indulge. Should I view these images as just more idle dreams or can they be helpful in feeling my connection to you?
No, they cannot be helpful. In fact they will never allow you to be related to me. Because your dream will always be between me and you. Drop all these fantasies. Don't indulge in them. Because imagination can become very dangerous. I come across it every day. One sannyasin from the Himalayas was here in the ashram. She told me that I have told her in her dreams that she has to stay here and not to go home. I tried to explain to her that I have not told anything to her in her dream, but she won't listen to me. He dreams are more real than me. She won't listen! She said: No. I know that you have told me. I say to her that I have not told her, but I am far away -- her own dream is nearer to her. She was here for three,…
For the delights of kissing the deluded crave declaring it to be the ultimately real --
LIKE A MAN WHO LEAVES HIS HOUSE AND STANDING AT THE DOOR ASKS (A WOMAN) FOR REPORTS OF SENSUAL DELIGHTS. THE STIRRING OF BIOTIC FORCES IN THE HOUSE OF NOTHINGNESS HAS GIVEN ARTIFICIAL RISE TO PLEASURES IN SO MANY WAYS. SUCH YOGIS FROM AFFLICTION FAINT FOR THEY HAVE FALLEN FROM CELESTIAL SPACE, INVEIGLED INTO VICE. AS A BRAHMIN, WHO WITH RICE AND BUTTER MAKES A BURNT OFFERING IN BLAZING FIRE CREATING A VESSEL FOR NECTAR FROM CELESTIAL SPACE, TAKES THIS THROUGH WISHFUL THINKING AS THE ULTIMATE. SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE KINDLED THE INNER HEAT AND RAISED IT TO THE FONTANELLE STROKE THE UVULA, WITH THE TONGUE IN A SORT OF COITION AND CONFUSE THAT WHICH FETTERS WITH WHAT GIVES RELEASE, IN PRIDE WILL CALL THEMSELVES YOGIS. Tantra does not say that to make love to the outer is sin, it simply says that it is not very far-going. It does…
It has been said that no desire, neither worldly nor religious, can lead towards freedom. But a positive imagination of happiness and bliss is also a sort of desire. Then isn't it true that imagination is also desire and hence creates tensions?
That is the meaning of the Indian concept of LEELA. God is playing; he is not engaged in work. This world is not utilitarian, it is just a play of energy. Energy enjoys itself playing; it divides itself and then plays the game of hide and seek. So, really, Indian seers have never said that God is the creator, they say that God is the player -- because the very word `creation' carries much seriousness about it, as if there is some end and something has to be achieved. God creating the world? This is absurd. Because it means that something is lacking, so God is creating the world to achieve something. Or it means that there is a future, so God also lives in desire. Jains and Buddhists could not understand the Hindu concept of LEELA, so they completely denied God. Because if God creates the world, then he…
Kalpana means imagination and deva means divine -- divine imagination. And that you have to remember: that your path will go through imagination. You have a tremendous capacity to imagine. If you can use it, it can be an immense help. If you don't use it, it can become a barrier. If one has some capacity, one has to use it, otherwise it becomes like a rock on the path. One has to step over it and transform it into a stepping stone. You have a very deep potentiality for imagination. So use it. Start three things. One is -- imagine yourself as happy as possible. Within a week you will start feeling that you are becoming very happy -- for no reason at all. That will be proof of your dormant capacity. So the first thing to do in the morning is to imagine yourself tremendously happy.