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And if you relax absolutely -- nature is very abundant; it has spoilt me, it will spoil you. What else is enlightenment...? Getting spoilt, finally.
Okay, Vimal?
Yes, Osho.
The Rebellious Spirit
Chapter #3
Chapter title: What binds you is the lust for the unlived life
11 February 1987 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8702115
ShortTitle: SPIRIT03
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 117 mins
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
HOW IS IT THAT ALL THE PAST BUDDHAS EXPRESSED THEMSELVES AGAINST MONEY AND SEX, WHICH ARE THE SOURCES OF WORLDLY PLEASURES? YOU ARE PERHAPS THE FIRST BUDDHA TO STAND BY ALL OF THEM TOGETHER -- PLEASURE, HAPPINESS, AND BLISS -- WHICH IS CAUSING SO MUCH MISUNDERSTANDING AND OPPOSITION IN YOUR CASE.
DID THE PAST BUDDHAS TRY TO COMPROMISE WITH TRADITION AND TO PLAY FOR SAFETY?
Anand Maitreya, there are many things to be understood.
One: all the past buddhas came from royal families. They enjoyed money, they enjoyed sex, they lived in the most luxurious way possible; and still they found a deep emptiness inside themselves. They made from their own experience a fundamental principle for all human beings.
All human beings are not born in royal families. They don't have the chance to experience money, sex, and other pleasures of the outside world. Because they were frustrated -- the money was not fulfilling, the sex was superficial, all the pleasures were repetitive and became routine -- they were utterly bored. They renounced the world.
Because of their renunciation of the world -- going into the forests and the mountains -- a fallacy arose that unless you renounce the world and worldly pleasure, you cannot become awakened, you cannot become enlightened. Their individual experience they made into a universal principle. It is a human tendency. It still persists.
For example, only psychologically sick people went to Sigmund Freud. Obviously, he who is healthy mentally has no need to go to Sigmund Freud. Freud came across only sick people, and he extended the principle to the whole of humanity, as if everybody
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