From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 26. MEDITATION: WATCHFULNESS, AWARENESS, ALERTNESS – THE REAL TRINITY
I have asked my mother. There was no possibility of their talking or meeting or seeing. They did not
see each other for years after their marriage. Children were born, but they had not seen each other
because they would meet only in the darkness of the night. And in India, in a joint family, there are
sometimes forty people, fifty people in the house. And those houses are just like Noah’s ark.
For example, my grandfather used to have his horse tied to his cot in the night too. And I told him
”The smell of the horse is so much that even if I want to meet you, your horse prevents me.” Cows
in the house, elders, children, everybody in the house – how Indians manage to make love is a
mystery.
How they manage to produce dozens of children is simply mystifying. It all happens in darkness,
without whispering a single word. What to say of loving chitchat and foreplay and afterplay. There is
no possibility only the play is enough! Fore and after does not exist; and the play has to be quick –
so nobody comes to know.
I was staying with my grandfather in the house of one of his friends – and when a very close guest is
there, in India, you don’t allow him to sleep in a separate room, that is not hospitality. My grandfather
and I were sleeping in the same room where my grandfather’s friend, his son, and his son’s wife were
sleeping. And what I learned.... My grandfather was old so once in a while he would cough; his friend
was even older than him, and once in a while he would cough. And because of their coughing my
sleep was difficult, so once in a while I would wake up. And once in a while I would see the son of
my grandfather’s friend making love to his wife... then I would cough.
That was enough! That was enough; he would jump into his own bed. And while I remained there
I did not allow him to sleep with his wife. On the day we were leaving he pulled me aside and said,
”You rascal!”
I said, ”What? Why are you calling me a rascal?”
He said, ”You coughed exactly at the time... do you sleep or not? Those two old men, I know they
cough – but not exactly at the time. I am so happy that you are going because for these two months
I have not met my wife, because the moment I started moving towards her bed you would start
coughing.” And coughing is such a thing that when I started then those two old men would hear it
and start; it is infectious. One person starts, then the other starts feeling a temptation too.
Stop the sexual energy of people, then it will find some other outlet. Religions learned the trick: stop
sexual energy – it moves, and gives the movement towards God. The military generals found it very
soon: stop the sexual energy and the man is ready to fight, to quarrel; he is just hankering to fight.
In fact Sigmund Freud’s explanation for all weapons is just sexual. He says that when you throw a
knife into somebody’s body, it is sexual penetration. A bullet is a sexual penetration from a faraway
distance. He is a little bit obsessed with sex, but there is some truth in it, because sexually fulfilled
people have not discovered weapons. There was no need.
So all these explanations are about your dreams because your dreams are truer than your waking
life. In waking life you don’t beat your teacher, but in dreams you can. That’s your real desire. If
you were allowed, or if you were powerful enough you would have done it. But it is not possible, not
practical. In dreams you are free to do it; it is a kind of substitute.
From Ignorance to Innocence 381 Osho