THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12 The ...

12 THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12
her. The more he runs after her, the more he becomes excited, his passion is aroused. Then, of course in a very
diplomatic way, the female fish allows him to make love.
One scientist, Lorenz, trained a female fish just to do the opposite: that whenever she comes across the male,
go, take the initiative, jump upon the male fish. And Lorenz was surprised: whenever this was done, the male
fish was so much afraid; the male fish could not believe his own eyes, what is happening! And the male fish
was unable to make love a sudden impotence! The mechanism works in a certain way: the female has to be
seductive but unavailable not absolutely unavailable because that will destroy the whole game, just a pretension
of unavailability. That excites the male energy. That makes the male more and more interested, obsessed. He is
functioning at the optimum, and when he is functioning at the optimum he makes love easily because the male
mind, whether in men or in mice, is the same. The male mind wants to conquer.
And, Sant, you are in the same situation like the male fish. Now female fish are jumping upon you, making you
afraid, and you are trying to hide the fact in a beautiful religious term: detachment. It is nothing! If you feel it is
detachment, just go to the Himalayas for one month sit in a cave, and you will think only of women and women!
I am just like another Lorenz. This commune is a pond, and I am training female fish to embrace every male
fish!
When one is really detached out of understanding, out of meditation then there is no detachment either; that
thing has to be understood. When one is really detached one is neither attached nor detached. The whole thing
becomes irrelevant as if there is no question anymore of attraction, of non-attraction. The whole question drops.
You are simply yourself. You don’t think in terms of women, women don’t think in terms of men. Thinking, ”I
am attached” or ”detached” means you are still thinking in terms of women.
Real detachment that which comes out of understanding has no reference to the other. You are simply yourself,
utterly joyous, happy, so blissful that you don’t need the other. The other has been forgotten completely, the
other exists no more. A woman will pass and you will not think whether she is a man or a woman. That is
transcending your biology, and that is one of the greatest things in life to transcend your biology because only
then, for the first time, you become something superior to the animals. Otherwise there is not much difference,
maybe some difference of quantity but not of quality. Unless you transcend biology you remain part of the animal
kingdom, another species of animal, that’s all.
Sant, now watch your detachment, whether it is fear or understanding. Have you understood the stupidity of
the whole game? If you have understood, then you will not ask, ”Now what is next?” There is nothing next then.
You have transcended biology and you will be really at rest with yourself. You will become orgasmic without the
help of the other. And orgasmicness will become so natural, so spontaneous, it will have no reference to sex at all.
A Buddha is orgasmic twenty-four hours a day because he is rejoicing each moment in its totality; there is
nothing more. If you have transcended the biology, if sex has disappeared through understanding, remember, not
through some kind of repression or fear then you have entered into God, you have become divine.
The third question:
Question 3
BELOVED MASTER, WHATEVER I DO, I TRY TOO HARD. PLEASE TELL US ABOUT BUDDHA’S
”RIGHT EFFORT.”
Anand Nagaro, Gautama the Buddha has taught only one thing, and that is the middle way. Never go to the
extreme. All extremes are the same. Be exactly in the middle and you will be freed, you will be liberated.
There are people who are obsessed with sex; that is one extreme. Then there are people who escape from
women, and if they are women they escape from men; they escape to the monasteries, to the caves. They are also
obsessed of course, in the opposite direction. That is the other extreme. There are people who are greedy, too
much greedy; their whole life is nothing but greed. And then there are people who renounce, who become afraid
of touching anything.
There are Jaina monks; in Buddha’s time they were very influential. Buddha’s whole fight was with Jaina
monks, because they were extremists. They remain naked because if you wear clothes you may become attached
to the clothes. They will not carry anything with them, not even a razor; when their hair is too long, they will
pull it out. They will not wear shoes, they will walk barefoot, because shoes are a luxury. Naked, without any
possessions, they impress people very much.
Extremists are always very impressive. You are greedy, you are after money, after power, prestige; they have
renounced all. Certainly, a great respect arises in your heart for them because you know you cannot do this; it is
too cold to be naked. And to live without money.... The Jaina monk cannot touch money; he is not allowed to
touch it, he is not even allowed to see money. How can you live without money? A great respect arises in you.
You live on one extreme and you respect the other extreme. Sooner or later, when you will become fed up with