Sex and Love
Sex means “The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles”
Fear, which is the result of our desire to be secure, makes us conform, imitate and submit to domination, and therefore it prevents creative living. To live creatively is to live in freedom, which is to be without fear; and there can be a state of creativeness only when the mind is not caught up in desire and satisfaction of desire.
It is because we do not love, that sex, the pursuit of sensation, has become a consuming problem. When there is love, there is virtue; but he who tries to be chaste, is not. Virtue comes with freedom; it comes when there is an understanding of what is.
Love is not caused by the signing of a contract, nor is it based on an exchange of satisfaction, nor on mutual security and comfort. All these things are of mind, and that is why love occupies so small a place in our lives. Love is not of the mind, it is wholly independent of thought with its cunning calculations, its self-protective demands and reactions. Where there is love, sex is never a problem – it is the lack of love that creates the problem.
The interferences and the escapes of the mind constitute the problem, and not sex or any other specific issue; and that is why it is important to understand the mind’s process, its attractions and repulsions, its responses to beauty, to wickedness. We should observe ourselves, become aware of how we regard people, how we look at men and women.
Fear, which is the result of our desire to be secure, makes us conform, imitate and submit to domination, and therefore it prevents creative living. To live creatively is to live in freedom, which is to be without fear; and there can be a state of creativeness only when the mind is not caught up in desire and satisfaction of desire.
It is because we do not love, that sex, the pursuit of sensation, has become a consuming problem. When there is love, there is virtue; but he who tries to be chaste, is not. Virtue comes with freedom; it comes when there is an understanding of what is.
Love is not caused by the signing of a contract, nor is it based on an exchange of satisfaction, nor on mutual security and comfort. All these things are of mind, and that is why love occupies so small a place in our lives. Love is not of the mind, it is wholly independent of thought with its cunning calculations, its self-protective demands and reactions. Where there is love, sex is never a problem – it is the lack of love that creates the problem.
The interferences and the escapes of the mind constitute the problem, and not sex or any other specific issue; and that is why it is important to understand the mind’s process, its attractions and repulsions, its responses to beauty, to wickedness. We should observe ourselves, become aware of how we regard people, how we look at men and women.
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