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man cannot afford it. Kings used to have thousands of wives -- even in this twentieth century, the Nizam of Hyderabad had five hundred wives. Naturally, one who has power can have as much sex as he wants.
Because of this delusion that sex is the ultimately real, thousands of other problems have arisen: money, power, prestige.
THE STIRRING OF BIOTIC FORCES IN THE HOUSE OF NOTHINGNESS...
It is just imagination; it is just imagination that you are thinking to be pleasure. It is an auto-hypnosis, an auto-suggestion. And once you auto-suggest to yourself, it looks like pleasure. Just think: holding the hand of a woman... and you feel so pleasurable. It is just an auto-hypnosis, it is just an idea in the mind.
THE STIRRING OF BIOTIC FORCES... Because of this idea, your bioenergy is stirred. It is stirred sometimes even while looking at a PLAYBOY picture -- there is nobody, just lines and colours -- and your energy can be stirred. Sometimes, just an idea in the mind, and your energy can be stirred. Energy follows imagination.
THE STIRRING OF BIOTIC FORCES IN THE HOUSE OF NOTHINGNESS...
You can create dreams; you can project dreams onto the screen of nothingness.
HAS GIVEN ARTIFICIAL RISE TO PLEASURES IN SO MANY WAYS.
If you watch the pathology of man you will be amazed. People have such ideas that you cannot believe that this is happening. Some man cannot make love to his woman unless he looks at pornography first -- the real-seems to be less real than the unreal. He becomes excited only through the unreal. Have you not seen it again and again in your own life -- that the real seems to be less exciting than the unreal?
Just there is sitting Rushma. She has come from Nairobi. The other day she asked 'I hanker for you, Osho, so much in Nairobi. I dream about you, I fantasize about you, and I have come from so far. And now my heart is not fluttering that way. What has happened?' Nothing has happened. Just that we are more in love with the imaginary than with the real. The unreal has become more real. So in Nairobi you have 'your' Osho -- that is your imagination, I have nothing to do with it -- that is your idea.
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