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CHAPTER 18. NON-ATTACHMENT IS NOT AVERSION
ways with us. We try to blow out the electric light with our breath, and we never think of the switch.
This error is centuries old and enduring. For this reason all spiritually advanced communities have
become lethargic. Contrarily, sex-oriented communities are active and aggressive, and they are
on the march to progress and prosperity. Every dynamic civilization in the world happens to be
sex-oriented, and every passive and peaceful civilization is spiritual.
It has been so up to now, but it is not necessary that it should always be the case.
It is true that sex energy is the basic drive to action and dynamism. Wherever sex is freed from its
fetters there will be an explosion of action and activity. If we look at nature we will find all activity
arises from sex. If flowers bloom in the spring and birds build nests and the air is filled with scent
and song, know that sex is behind all these lively activities. The bird is building a nest only to lay its
eggs, The cuckoo is calling not to please you, but to invite and entice its sex partner. These are all
biological activities.
Man too, is familiar only with biological activity. For this reason buildings in permissive societies,
where sex is free, begin to touch the skies; they are nothing but extensions of the birds’ nests.
Permissive societies are humming with song, music and orchestra they are full of colors and gay
costumes. The same calls of the cuckoo and the dance of the peacocks! There is not much
difference between the two.
Against this, countries that turn their backs on biological activities and take a different road, and
yet by force of habit continue to follow the rule of opposites, become inert and sad and dull. Their
houses turn into huts, their songs die and their colors fade out. Their whole life becomes flat and
drab, poor and miserable.
As I see, both biology and spiritualism have their own laws. And a right kind of culture, a complete
culture can come into being only if both biology and spiritualism are allowed to grow in their own
ways. A right kind of culture will not suppress sex. It will accord it its due place in life; it will accept
and enjoy sex without inhibition and guilt, it will celebrate sex. Such a culture will be expansive and
it will generate immense activity. In the same way spiritualism, if allowed to grow on the basis of
its natural laws – if seekers choose their disciplines rightly, in accord with their types – will lead to
explosive action in the field of religion.
Krishna is in full accord with his own type; he does not deviate from his self-nature. So is Buddha.
And Mahavira too. For this reason Krishna’s life is crammed with action of a particular style. Not
that Buddha lacks in action; his life is filled with a different kind of action. Mahavira keeps moving
from one village to another for a full forty years. It is true that he does not take part in war, but he
engages himself in a higher kind of war waged on a different level. Buddha does not play a flute, but
his discourses resound with a note that is higher than that of the flute. It does not make a difference
because Buddha is fully established in his own self-nature. He has found his authentic being at its
highest. Krishna has discovered his own sublime reality, his truth, and he is complete and contented.
So far as men like Krishna, Buddha and Mahavira are concerned, they have found their true types,
their authentic self-nature. But their followers often err in discovering their own authentic types:
they become confused. To find one’s intrinsic nature is of the highest in spiritualism. And I repeat
Krishna’s words: ”It is better to perish in one’s self-nature than to accept another’s, which is perilous.”
Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy 353 Osho