Osho Rajneesh Book "The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol 1"

The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol 1

The Complementariness of Opposites

22 February 1972 pm in Bombay, India
Question 1

OSHO, YOU SAID LAST NIGHT THAT TO HAVE AN UPWARD FLOW OF THE MIND ONE HAS TO MAKE A CONSTANT EFFORT AGAINST PAST ANIMAL HABITS. PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS BETWEEN EFFORT AGAINST HABITS, AND SUPPRESSION.

TRANSFORMATION of the mind is a positive effort. Suppression of the mind is negative. The

difference is that when you are suppressing your mind, you are positively concerned with being

against something. When you are transforming your mind, you are not directly concerned with

being against something. You are positively concerned for something: the effort is for something,

not against something.

For example, if you are fighting directly with sex, then it will be suppression. But if your positive

effort is for transformation of sex energy, your positive effort is for something else, then it will not

be suppression. Suppression means you have blocked the natural door for the energy, you have

blocked the natural outflow, and you have not opened anything else. It is just a blockage. You

are against anger, so you block anger – but where will the energy go? The energy that you have

suppressed will create inner complexities. It will even be more perverted. So to be natural is better

than to be perverted. Perversion is disease; to be natural is healthy.

Of course, just to be healthy is not the end. One can go even beyond health. So these are three

things – suppression, being natural and transcendence. Just being natural is just being healthy. If

you suppress and there is no positive outlet, no creative outlet for your suppressed energy, then you

will become perverted. You are not healthy: you become diseased, you become a ”dis-ease”.

Don’t be concerned negatively. Change the energy, the door, the path, the outlet, positively, and

when there is a creative change, the energy that was flowing into sex will not flow. Whenever you

can open a higher passage for it, it will flow through it. Whenever you can create something which

is better than nature itself, then there is no suppression. This difference must be understood.

Only man can fall below nature; no animal can fall below nature. There are no abnormal animals.

Sometimes animals also become abnormal, but only when they are with men – never alone. A dog

can go abnormal, a horse can go abnormal, but never alone, never in their natural state. They can

go abnormal with man, with man’s society. They can go abnormal in a zoo.

Man can fall down below nature. This may seem unfortunate. This is not because this capacity

comes with another capacity: man can transcend nature. No animal can transcend nature. The

higher you can go than nature, the lower you can go also, in the same proportion. Every possibility

is a double possibility. Every possibility opens two doors that are diametrically opposite. Unless

you can fall below nature, you cannot transcend above it. And if you have the capacity to transcend

nature, you will have the capacity to fall below it also.

Animals are just natural; they are neither perverted nor are they transformed. Never do they become

sub-animal and never do they become super-animal. They are just animal. Man is a flexible

potentiality. He can fall below nature, can be perverted, can become mad. He can transcend

nature, can become superhuman, can become a Buddha.

Another thing: animals are born with their nature. In a way they are born perfect. An animal is

born developed. Man is born without any nature and is not developed at the time of birth. He

develops later. Then many possibilities open, and there is a great range of possibilities. Marl is born

undeveloped – not only mentally, but even bodily he is born undeveloped. No animal child is born

with an undeveloped body; the body is complete. That’s why, when the animal child is born, he is

capable of living even without parents.

Man’s child is born undeveloped, and even in the physiological structure many things develop only

after he is born – and it takes years. In the mother’s womb he is not completely developed, and

because of that, the phenomenon of mother is born – because mothering continues. If the child

is born completely developed, then there will be no mothering. The whole institution of the family

developed – and, consequently, the whole society – the whole society was born because the child

is born undeveloped. He has to be looked after, taken care of. Only after twenty years will he really

be out of the womb. In these twenty years, he will need a family, loving care, a society, in which to

develop This will be a greater womb.

Even when he is physically complete, mentally he is not. He will have to develop his mind. And,

really, the average mind is never beyond fourteen years of age. The average mind remains below

thirteen and a half. The average mental age is thirteen and a half. A person who is physically

seventy is mentally thirteen and a half. The mind remains in such a primitive, primary state! Body

becomes complete, mind remains incomplete, and spirit is not even touched. Man dies without ever

having evolved any spirit.

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