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when you put them in zoos, and then they become mentally ill, otherwise not. What is wrong in being an animal? Be animal!
This is what is creating trouble. When I say coward, I mean this -- that you are afraid of your animality, of your anger, of your violence, of this and that, and you have been suppressing them! Those suppressed emotions go on creating a turmoil within, and if you go on suppressing too much, then a deadened state comes up. You create such a distance between you and your emotions that you don't feel. You start to only think about them; you don't exactly feel them.
When I say don't be a coward in the group, I mean that whatsoever it is -- animal, divine -- don't judge; allow it. And as I see it, they are there just in your belly, struggling hard to come up, and you have been repressing them hard. The repression may have just become a habit now.
You are going to do the Tao group?
(to the Tao groupleader who was present) take care. Force him to become completely animal (laughter). And a very beautiful being is hiding within, mm? But he has been struggling in a wrong way.
Do something where he has to behave exactly like an animal. Tell him to move around the room like a dog, sniffing, smelling...
[A sannyasin to whom Osho said that if she wanted to break out of the vicious circle that she was in in her relationships it would be good for her to abstain from sexual relations, (see 'Nothing To Lose But Your Head') returned tonight to say that she had been unable to do as Osho had suggested.]
Mm mm, it was difficult to carry it on for six months? You have not even carried it for six weeks!
It has nothing to do with sex, mm? I was trying to give you a situation in which you can fight against mechanical has its. I am not against sex or anything... that was just an excuse. One has to do some work, somewhere, where one is not possessed continuously by mechanical habits. A circle has to be broken. Sex is one of the most beautiful situations in which one can break out of being mechanical.
If you can break out of sex, you can break out of anything because it is one of the deepest habits. Everything
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