Osho's perspective on Homosexuality
When Osho Spoke About Homosexuality
Passages from the discourses where this theme comes alive.
Why are the boys in the muslim heaven so much more nauseating than the golden apsaras without any perspiration, of the hindu paradise? Your condemnation of homosexuality, not only in this lecture, doesn't seem very compassionate.
Each child born is masturbatory, because the child first learns to love himself. That is the only natural way. He knows nobody else, he plays with his own body. each child born is naturally masturbatory: that is his first love. The second stage of his growth is, he becomes homosexual -- naturally so. He has loved himself: if he is a boy, certainly he starts loving other boys -- his love is spreading. Girls are very far away, a totally different kind of animal. He loves himself -- it is easier for him to love other boys. A girl loves herself -- it is easier for her to love other girls; the boys are a world apart. This is the second step, NATURAL step: masturbatory, then homosexuality. Then the third thing, the third wave, is when you start loving the other -- the opposite. Man and woman are polarities, and…
Ordinarily, whatsoever you call love comes to this point sooner or later, because you don't know what love is. Just the novelty of a relationship is not love. Just the novelty of a relationship is not beauty, mm? That is just infatuation, and sooner or later that is finished, and then reality starts working. Then it is much ado about nothing; it is a fuss, and meaningless. But this is good -- to understand how a beautiful relationship comes to such a sour end always. You bring it to that end. Mind cannot remain in any permanent state. If it is happy it is getting ready to be unhappy. It goes on like a wheel. If you continue to be together, again after a few days things will settle, then again this will come up.
Osho, you yourself have said there is no way to go against nature in any direction. Then whether, in the ocean of nature, we float or swim—whether we live in friendship with it or in enmity—where does any violation of nature occur? Yet you also explain: move in harmony with nature; in its river don’t swim, float. Osho, in this context, what is the alchemy of “nahin Ram bin thav”—there is no resting place without Ram? Please help us understand.
There is no way to be against nature, because there is nothing that is not nature. Whatever is, is nature. There is no path to fight with nature—who would fight? There is none other than nature. But the feeling, the idea, the vision that “I am fighting nature” can be adopted, it can be cultivated. When you swim in the river, you still are not going against nature, because swimming too is natural. Even when you “fight” the river, the river is not fighting you. So there is no way to be an enemy of nature. But in your mind the notion can arise that you are fighting, that you must win, must not lose—and you can fall into the madness of winning and losing. You will suffer from that. Nature suffers nothing. Nor will nature obstruct you or demand you change. Nature will go on as it is, endlessly.…
प्रश्न: ओशो, आपका ही वचन है, किसी भी दिशा में प्रकृति के प्रतिकूल होने का कोई उपाय नहीं है। फिर प्रकृति के सागर में हम बहें या तैरें, उसके साथ मैत्री में जीएं या शत्रुता में, प्रकृति का उल्लंघन कहां होता है! लेकिन आप यह भी समझाते हैं कि प्रकृति के अनुकूल चलो, उसकी नदी में तैरो मत, बहो। ओशो, इस संदर्भ में, नहिं राम बिन ठांव की कीमिया क्या होगी, कृपया हमें समझाएं।
… जो भी है प्रकृति है। प्रकृति से लड़ने का कोई मार्ग नहीं, क्योंकि लड़ेगा कौन? प्रकृति से अन्य कोई भी नहीं है। लेकिन प्रकृति से लड़ रहा हूं, ऐसा भाव, ऐसा विचार, ऐसी दृष्टि बना ली, बनाई जा सकती है। जब तुम तैरते हो नदी में, तब भी तुम प्रकृति के प्रतिकूल नहीं हो, क्योंकि तैरना भी प्राकृतिक है। नदी से जब तुम लड़ते हो, तब भी नदी तुमसे नहीं लड़ रही है। इसलिए प्रकृति से दुश्मनी का कोई उपाय नहीं है। लेकिन तुम्हारे मन में यह धारणा बन सकती है कि मैं लड़ रहा हूं और तुम हारने और जीतने के पागलपन में पड़ सकते हो। उससे तुम कष्ट पाओगे। उससे भी प्रकृति कोई कष्ट नहीं पा रही है। और प्रकृति कोई बाधा भी नहीं डालेगी कि तुम बदलो। प्रकृति अनंत तक ऐसी ही चलती रहेगी। …
One of the controversial issues about the rajneesh ashram concerns indulgence in sex and what are being condemned as sexual perversions or orgies. We would like bhagwan rajneesh to give us his views on sex and its role in transcendence. -- r.k. Karanjia, editor, blitz
He's an atheist, a confirmed atheist who had never prayed. But with the situation -- the fear of the night and the wild animals -- for the first time in his life he thought of God. He forgot all his arguments that he used to give against God. He knelt down on the ground and he said, "Dear Lord...." although he looked around, a little embarrassed, knowing perfectly well that there was nobody, but still embarrassed -- the whole life's philosophy of atheism! But when fear knocks on the doors and when death is so close by, who bothers about logic, philosophies, isms? Who bothers about reason, argument? "Dear Lord," he said, "please help me get out of these woods, and I will always worship you. I will even start going to the mosque. I will follow all the rituals of Islam. I promise you! Just save me. Forgive me.…
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