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will you be able one day to learn how to stand on your own without falling.
Out of the first love the second has to be found. And out of the second the third has to be found when you have started standing on your own, rooted deep in the earth, in the soil. This earth is beautiful. This earth is an opportunity, a great opportunity to experiment. Your being here is experimental -- you should experiment as much as possible, you should not waste any opportunity to experiment. And each experiment will bring a little bit of wisdom to you. It comes the hard way. A man who tries to remain always secure, safe, will not learn anything, will not learn ever.
I have heard: A general had come to visit the army in Poona. He asked some soldiers, 'How do you manage with the Poona water?' They said, 'First we boil it. Then we purify it. And then just to be safe we drink beer.'
Then why bother? People are trying to be safe, people are trying to remain always in security. They don't explore, they don't go beyond the boundary. And the boundary has been fixed by the priests and the politicians -- by the enemies, by the poisoners. Naturally your life has no flavor to it, no tone. It is placid, it is flat, it has no blood, no bones, it is pale. You are like a candle dying. Your life is nothing but a long process of slow death. You never live.
I am all for these three loves. Learn the ways of the first, the ways of the body. And then go beyond, because there is much more. Don't remain confined to it. It is a passage to reach to the second body, the bliss body. And yes, sometimes when you are deeply in physical love, then too some bliss spills over you from the second body. Making love to a woman or a man, when suddenly you feel ecstatic it is not coming from the woman, remember, it is not coming from the man, remember. The woman has nothing to give to you, neither has the man anything to give to you. All that is possible between a man and woman is a kind of absorbent into each other. They forget themselves for a moment. The self consciousness disappears, the ego disappears, that's all.
In that disappearance something from the second body, which is within
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