Money can buy sex on the outside, and when we push sex down inside, that same energy clings to money instead.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved master, why do I always feel that sex and money are somehow deeply connected with each other?
The poor man started crying, tears rolled down his cheeks, and he said, "I am sorry. I can give you my life, I can die for you right now, I can cut off my head -- but how can I give you my samadhi? It is not sellable, it is not purchasable -- it is not a commodity at all. It is a state of consciousness. Mahavira must have played a joke on you." Unless you know something which cannot be sold and cannot be purchased, unless you know something which is beyond money, you have not known real life. Sex is not beyond money -- love is. Transform your sex into love, and transform your love into prayer -- so one day even kings like Bimbisara may feel jealous of you. Become a Mahavira, a Buddha, become a Christ, a Zarathustra, a Lao Tzu. Only then have you lived,…
Beloved Osho, I have heard you say that tribes which are not sex-repressive remain poor, and societies which are sex-repressive become rich and creative. Osho, your communes are not sex-repressive and yet they are rich and creative. Can you comment?
The second son thought, "What this brother is doing is not right, does not seem to be right, because our father emphatically said, `These same seeds I would like to be returned.' So I will keep these seeds." He made arrangements in the basement of the house, put all the seeds there, locked it, and said, "Now whenever he comes I will give him the key and say, `These are the seeds.'" But the third one had a different idea. He said, "Seeds kept in a basement will not remain alive; they need soil. By the time our father returns they will not be the same seeds because they will be dead. They cannot sprout -- how can you call them the same seeds? The seeds that our father has given us can sprout, can become trees. One seed can produce millions of seeds; that is what he has given.…
Beloved Osho, can you talk about money? What are all these feelings which are around money? What makes it so powerful that people sacrifice their lives for it?
Just by reading it you are not aware. Now, when I was talking to you about Sodom... in this new Bible they have made pictures of men making love to animals, women making love to animals. There is adultery, there is homosexuality, there is sodomy, there is rape. You name it and it is in the Bible! I have said that we should immediately order it. My people should start reading the real Bible! And order it immediately, because there is every possibility it will be prohibited. Never in the world has any book been so pornographic as this Bible. And they are not doing anything which is not in the Bible -- they are just making pictures of it. You can understand pictures better. Just reading the word `rape' is nothing, but when you see a series of rapes pictured, then you become suddenly aware -- this is a…
Osho, you just said that in sexual intercourse both woman and man lose energy, but the common belief is that a woman is nourished by the man’s semen in intercourse. Please clarify.
Common beliefs are like that—just as the common belief is that the sun rises, or that the earth is flat. Common beliefs are often wrong, because “common” means seen from the surface, without going deep. The sun appears to rise; now we know well that the sun neither rises nor sets. Yet humanity will probably never get rid of the words sunrise and sunset; they will continue. The ground appears flat; nowhere does it look round. For thousands of years people believed it was flat. Today, to accept that it is round is hard—the ordinary mind is troubled: “How can it be round? It looks flat.” Common beliefs are often wrong because they rest on two things. First, on appearances—how things seem from the outside. Second, on what we want to believe—we adopt as truth what we prefer to be true. Ordinarily we do not want truth; we make what…
Beloved Osho, why is money such a loaded issue? It seems as though when we have money, either we feel guilty about it, and thus compelled to spend it, or insecure, and therefore want to hold onto it. Obviously it affects a multitude of areas that revolve around the pivot of power and freedom. The curious thing is that even to discuss the subject of money is somehow as much a taboo as discussing sex or death at the dinner table. Please comment.
It seems very strange to say that the religions exist almost on irreligious things, or it will be better to say, on anti-religious things. They use those things, but on the surface you don't see that. You see charity, but you don't see from where charity comes, and why. In the first place, why should there be a need for charity? Why should there be orphans, why should there be beggars? Why in the first place should we allow beggars to happen and orphans to happen? And in the second place, why are there people who are very willing to do charity work, to give money, to give their whole lives to charity and serving the poor? On the surface everything seems to be right because we have lived in this kind of structure for so long; otherwise it is absolutely absurd. No child is an orphan if the commune…