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''Sex ,death are two sides of coin''

Book Review by: creativeforce    

Original Author: OSHO
It is because of Sigmund Freud that the taboo against the word "sex" was removed ,the whole credit goes to this man .He is
one the greatest benefactors of humanity .Although he himself was not enlightened ,he has done a great service ,a pioneer work:he removed one great taboo.Now you can talk about sex without felling ashamed ,without felling guilty .
REMOVE THE TEBOO AGAINST DEATH
Another Freud is needed ,a Freud who will remove the taboo against death .The West is sex -oriented ,the East is death-oriented ;hence in the East people are repressive of sex and in the West people are repressive of death .Both are wrong because sex and death are two sides of the same coin .If you represss one ,you cannot experience the other in its totality ,because to experience the one in its totality is to experience the other too,and both have to be experienced .Life is an opportunity to experience sex and death .If you experience these two and if you can come to your own authentic experience that they both are one ,you have transcended .
THE MIND FINDS PARADOXES
The mind finds paradoxes because the mind is always moving from the past to the present and then to the future .Now you are alive ,but the day will come when you are dead .When the mind thinks all these things together ,a child and an old man become a paradox .For the mind birth and death  become a paradox because they can both be  thought ;for existence ,when there is birth there is no death,when there is death there is no birth .For existence there is nothing paradoxical .
BE FINISHED WITH YESTERDAYS
Yesterday you heard me ;be finished with it .There is no more yesterday ,but the mind carries it .If you really heard me yesterday you will not carry it for, if you carry it how can you hear me today? The smoke of yesterday will be a disturbance ;there will be that smoke and you will only hear me through yesterday and you will miss .Yesterday should be dropped so you can be here and now .
PARADOX EXISTS IN MEMORY
There is no paradox ,but if you compare yesterday and today then it comes .If you compare birth and death ,the paradox comes .Today and yesterday cannot exist together only in the memory.Existence is non-paradoxical ,the mind is paradoxical.Why think about yesterday?If you are thinking about it how can you be here ?That will be difficult .Because of yesterday you will not be able to hear me today.
Published: June 13, 2007
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