Lately
I have received a suggestion from many friends that men and women should be
segregated from each other when we go for meditation, because they think it
will help their meditation. This suggestion is utterly stupid. They don’t know
that if men and women are segregated from each other, if they are put into
separate blocks, it will make them two homogeneous groups cut off from each
other, blocking the flow of energy between them. Friends who come up with such
suggestions are ignorant of their implications. I hold just the contrary view
on the matter. If men and women meditate together as a mixed gathering, it can
be immensely helpful to their meditation. Then something can happen to both of
them without their knowing it, and it will deepen their meditation.
Your
being here together without any reason – you are not here as husbands and wives
– will help you in catharsis as nothing else can do. The very presence of the
opposite sex will stir many deeply repressed emotions in both men and women,
and it will then be so easy to cathart them.
The
terrible mental tension through which mankind is passing at the moment is the
result of this segregation, this apartheid of men and women. We have separate
schools and colleges for boys and girls; men and women sit in separate groups
in churches and temples. Everywhere the sexes are being made to keep a distance
from each other. Much of our present-day trouble and misery stems from this
unnatural and unhealthy practice, because it violates the basic laws of nature.
In this
world the entire structure of life is based on the togetherness of the opposite
forces. The more natural and spontaneous this togetherness, the more beneficial
it is.
Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy
Osho
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