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"If you go to Catholic, Jaina, Buddhist
monks, you will find them very nervous – maybe not so
nervous in their monasteries, but if you bring them out to
the world, you will find them very, very nervous because on
each step there is temptation.
"A man of meditation comes to a point where there is no
temptation left. Try to understand it. Temptation never comes from without: it is the repressed
desire, repressed energy, repressed sex, repressed greed,
that creates temptation. Temptation comes from within you, it has nothing to do with
the without. It is not that a devil comes and tempts you, it
is your own repressed mind that becomes devilish and wants
to take revenge. To control that mind one has to remain so
cold and frozen that no life energy is allowed to move into
your limbs, into your body. If energy is allowed to move,
those repressions will surface. That's why people have
learned how to be cold, how to touch others and yet not
touch them, how to see people and yet not see them.
"People
live with cliches – "Hello, how are you?" Nobody
means anything. These are just to avoid the real encounter
of two persons. People don't look into each other's eyes,
they don't hold hands, they don't try to feel each other's
energy, they don't allow each other to pour. Very afraid,
somehow just managing... cold and dead. In a strait-jacket.
"A man of meditation has learned how to be full of energy, at
the maximum, optimum. He lives at the peak, he makes his
abode at the peak. Certainly he has a warmth but it is not
feverish, it only shows life. He is not hot, he is cool,
because he is not carried away by desires. He is so happy,
that he is no longer seeking any happiness. He is so at
ease, he is so at home, he is not going anywhere, he is not
running and chasing... he is very cool."
Osho, Dang Dang Doko Dang, Talk #5
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