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you are a respectable man and this and that. You are just an imitation, you are artificial
I have heard:
One woman gave up smoking when her pet parrot developed a persistent cough. She was worried, naturally; she thought it must have been the smoke that she went on smoking continuously in the house and that it didn't suit the parrot. So she took the parrot to a vet. The vet gave the bird a thorough check-up and found that it didn't have pneumonia or psittacosis. The final diagnosis was that it had been imitating the cough of its cigarette-smoking owner.
It was not smoke: it was just imitating. The woman was coughing, and the parrot had learnt coughing.
Watch... your life may be just like a parrot. If it is like a parrot, then you are missing something tremendously valuable -- you are missing your life. Whatsoever you gain will not prove of much value, because there is nothing more valuable than your life.
So Tantra makes spontaneity the first virtue, the most fundamental virtue.
SO FROM SPONTANEITY THAT'S UNIQUE...
NOW, ONE MORE THING TANTRA SAYS, and that has to be understood very very minutely. The spontaneity can be of two types: it can be only of impulsiveness, but then it is not very unique; if it is of awareness, then it has that quality of being unique -- the Buddha quality.
Many times, listening to me, you think you are becoming spontaneous while you are simply becoming impulsive. What is the difference between being impulsive and being spontaneous? You have two things in you: the body and the mind. The mind is controlled by the society and the body is controlled by your biology. The mind is controlled by your society because the society can put thoughts into your mind; and your body is controlled by millions of years of biological growth.
The body is unconscious, so is mind unconscious. You are a watcher beyond both. So if you stop listening to the mind and to the society, there is every possibility you will start listening to the biology. So sometimes you feel like murdering somebody, and you say, "I am going to be spontaneous -- Osho has said'Be spontaneous!' so I have to do it. I have to
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