Sex is the most powerful instinct in man

Beloved Master,
  Why has sex been a taboo in all the societies down the ages?

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    It is a very complicated question -- but very important too, worth going into. SEX IS THE MOST POWERFUL INSTINCT IN MAN. The politician and the priest -- they have understood it from the very beginning... that sex is the most driving energy in man. It has to be curtailed, it has to be cut.

    IF MAN IS ALLOWED TOTAL FREEDOM ABOUT SEX, THEN THERE WILL BE NO POSSIBILITY TO DOMINATE HIM. To turn him into a slave will be impossible. Have you not seen it being done? When you want a bull to be yoked in a bullock cart -- what you do? -- you castrate, you destroy his sex energy.

    AND HAVE YOU SEEN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BULL AND AN OX? What difference! An ox is a poor phenomenon: a slave. A bull is a beauty. A bull is a glorious phenomenon, a great splendor. See a bull walking -- how he walks like an emperor. And see an ox carrying a bullock cart.

    THE SAME HAS BEEN DONE TO MAN. The sex instinct has been curtailed, cut, crippled. Now man does not exist as the bull, he exists like the ox. And each man is carrying thousand and one bullock carts. Look and you will find behind you thousand and one bullock carts. And you are yoked in them.

    Why can't you yoke a bull? THE BULL IS TOO POWERFUL. If he sees a cow passing by, he will throw the bullock cart and you. And he will move to the cow. He will not bother a little bit who you are. And he will not listen. It will be impossible to control the bull.

    SEX ENERGY IS LIFE ENERGY, IT IS UNCONTROLLABLE. And the politician and the priest are not interested in you: they are interested to channelize your energy into certain other directions. So there is a certain mechanism behind it. It has to be understood.

    SEX REPRESSION -- TABOOING THE SEX -- IS THE VERY FOUNDATION OF HUMAN SLAVERY. And man cannot be free unless sex is free. Man cannot be really free unless his sex energy is allowed natural growth.

OSHO
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