A Zen master used to say, "It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner."
SEX for most of the people, is a word that should be condemned. For some it is a word that carries a style quotient along with it. For few, it is a necessity. But for a couple a people it is a word which actually brings them closer to “Nirvana-The ultimate bliss.” First of all, let us discuss the history of this word. It was a pretty much a natural gift that a man got from nature. No other animal has it except man. Initially there was no condemnation for sex. People took it as a natural chore, such as drinking, eating etc. But then society came in to being and so did people started getting narrow minded. People were then worried about their properties, which women were a part of. People started taking sex as a sin .Because if it wasn’t taken as one the whole system of society would have been destroyed. Then the scriptures came into the play. The priests saw that Sex was a source via which a man could be liberated and if this happens there would be no importance of a church , a temple , a mosque. So they started taking advantage of this, and started preaching that sex is a Sin . No sin is bigger than sex.
People started suppressing their sexual tendencies. People started agreeing that sex is actually a sin. As a result the society started seeing sexual crimes, prostitution came in place. Priests stated preaching the whole subject according to their comfort. Have you ever wondered why is sex such a suppressed energy in people? For example when you meet a someone, even after years altogether you would remember whether that was a male or a female. You might not remember the name, nor the face, not the religion . Only the sex of that person . This is the amount of sexual suppression that people have now-a-days. The art follows sexuality. The most beautiful sculptures have a sexual theme, the songs , movies, paintings , everything now-a-days have a sexual theme. This is a result of the amount of sexual suppression that we have. So the argument in the previous paragraph does support that sex is the biggest suppression that a man has seen in this history.
Now lets see how does sex support meditation. According to the Buddhist ideology the ultimate bliss is known as Nirvana. Nirvana surprisingly means ‘blowing off the candle.’ This is very different now. The ultimate bliss, we are subjected to something new, new doors are opened to us and instead of calling it lighting the candle, the Buddha calls it blowing off the candle! That’s true, actually what Buddha means by Nirvana is that a state in our lives when blow off every lamp in our lives and just live with ourselves. That point in our lives where we live in present, where our ego is dropped, there is a sense of ultimate bliss in our lives, the time seems to halt. All this are the state that a man has when he untangles all the worldly connections and starts a new beginning to the new life.
But the surprising part is that Sex is the only thing where in an individual reaches all these states. At that final point of Sex , there is no ego contained, no one is a millionaire then , no one is world famous actor. And that is actually the only point in our lives that we live in present. We virtually live out the entire period of our lives living either in past or in future. We hardly live in present. And sex is one such point which enables people to actually live in present. Yes there are holy books that state that sex is an attachment, and the ultimate aim of life is to get free from all the attachment in life. So the people started ignoring it, suppressing it. But that exactly is the opposite of what is required. If we close our eyes and can’t see the sun that doesn’t mean that we are defying the existence of the sun. We are only suppressing ourselves for no reason. The reason why sex and death are a taboo is that people live in that folly that by ignoring we do actually defy the attachment to it. But that is totally wrong.
Basically Sex is a form of energy, A huge source of energy which has the power to actually give birth to an offspring. But it also has the power to give birth to ourselves. Now-a-days people have started using this energy as a mode of entertainment. And some use it a mode of religious preaching. But the actual truth is that it does not belong to any of this. Man has special ability of not only using this gift as a catalyst for reproduction, but also for self realization. It is pious way of meeting ourselves. Realizing our inner selves, and attaining Nirvana.
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