… Then from fourteen to twenty-one your sex matures. And this is significant to understand: if the rehearsal has gone well, in the seven years when your sex matures a very strange thing happens that you may not have ever thought about, because you have not been given the chance. I said to you that the second seven years, from seven to fourteen, give you a glimpse of foreplay. The third seven years give you a glimpse of afterplay. You are still together with girls or boys, but now a new phase starts in your being: you start falling in love.
\nIt is still not a biological interest. You are not interested in producing children, you are not interested in becoming husbands and wives, no. These are the years of romantic play. You are more interested in beauty, in love, in poetry, in sculpture \u2013 which are all different phases of romanticism. And unless a man has some romantic quality he will never know what afterplay is. Sex is just in the middle.
\nThe longer the foreplay, the better the possibility of reaching the climax; the better the possibility of reaching the climax, the better opening for afterplay. And unless a couple knows afterplay they will never know what sex in its completion is.
\nNow there are sexologists who are teaching foreplay. A taught foreplay is not the real thing, but they are teaching it \u2013 at least they have recognized the fact that without foreplay sex cannot reach the climax.
\nBut they are at a loss how to teach afterplay because when a person has reached the climax he is no longer interested: he is finished, the job is done. For that it needs a romantic mind, a poetic mind, a mind that knows how to be thankful, how to be grateful.
\nThe person, the woman or the man who has brought you to such a climax, needs some gratitude \u2013 afterplay is your gratitude. And unless there is afterplay it simply means your sex is incomplete; and incomplete sex is the cause of all the troubles that man goes through.
\nSex can become orgasmic only when afterplay and foreplay are completely balanced. Just in their balance the climax turns into orgasm.
\nAnd the word \u201corgasm\u201d has to be understood. It means that your whole being \u2013 body, mind, soul, everything \u2013 becomes involved, organically involved. Then it becomes a moment of meditation. To me, if your sex does not become finally a moment of meditation, you have not known what sex is.
\nYou have only heard about it, you have read about it; and the people who have been writing about it know nothing about it.
\nI have read hundreds of books on sexology by people who are thought to be great experts, and they are experts, but they know nothing about the innermost shrine where meditation blossoms.
\nJust as children are born by ordinary sex, meditation is born by extraordinary sex. Animals can produce children; there is nothing special about it. It is only man who can produce the experience of meditation as the center of his orgasmic feeling. This is possible only if from fourteen to twenty-one young people are allowed to have romantic freedom.
\nFrom twenty-one to twenty-eight is the time when they can settle. They can choose a partner. And they are capable of choosing now; through all the experience of the past two circles they can choose the right partner. There is nobody else who can do it for you. It is something that is more like a hunch \u2013 not arithmetic, not astrology, not palmistry, not I-Ching, nothing is going to do.
\nIt is a hunch: coming in contact with many, many people suddenly something clicks which had never clicked with anybody else. And it clicks with so much certainty and so absolutely, that you cannot even doubt it. Even if you try to doubt it, you cannot, the certainty is so tremendous. With this click you settle.
\nBetween twenty-one and twenty-eight somewhere, if everything goes smoothly the way I am saying, without interference from others, then you settle. And the most pleasant period of life comes from twenty-eight to thirty-five \u2013 the most joyous, the most peaceful and harmonious because two persons start melting and merging into each other.
\nFrom thirty-five to forty-two, a new step, a new door opens. If up to thirty-five you have felt deep harmony, an orgasmic feeling, and you have discovered meditation through it, then from thirty-five to forty-two you will help each other go more and more into that meditation without sex, because sex at this point starts looking childish, juvenile.
\nForty-two is the right time when a person should be able to know exactly who he is. From forty-two to forty-nine he gets deeper and deeper into meditation, more and more into himself, and helps the partner in the same way. They become friends. There is no more husband and there is no more wife; that time has passed. It has given its richness to your life; now there is something higher, higher than love.
\nThat is friendliness, a compassionate relationship to help the other to go deeper into himself, to become more independent, to become more alone \u2013 just like two tall trees standing separate but still close to each other, or two pillars in a temple supporting the same roof \u2013 standing so close, but so separate and so independent and so alone.
\nFrom forty-nine to fifty-six this aloneness becomes your focus of being. Everything in the world loses meaning. The only thing meaningful that remains is this aloneness.
\nFrom fifty-six to sixty-three you become absolutely what you are going to become: the potential blossoms.
\nFrom sixty-three to seventy you start getting ready to drop the body. Now you know you are not the body, you know you are not the mind either. The body was known as separate from you somewhere when you were thirty-five. That the mind is separate from you was known somewhere when you were forty-nine. Now, everything else drops except the witnessing self. Just the pure awareness, the flame of awareness remains with you, and this is the preparation for death.
\nSeventy is the natural life span for man. And if things move in this natural course then he dies with tremendous joy, with great ecstasy, feeling immensely blessed that his life has not been meaningless, that at least he has found his home. And because of this richness, this fulfillment, he is capable of blessing the whole existence.
\nJust to be near such a person when he is dying is a great opportunity. You will feel, as he leaves his body, some invisible flowers falling upon you. Although you cannot see them, you can feel them.
\nIt has been always a great moment in the lives of disciples when the Master leaves the body. And it is possible because the Master can know when he is going to leave the body \u2013 he can collect all those who have been his fellow travelers moving in the same way. Now that he is leaving he would like to give you his last gift.
\nAs the Master opens his wings towards the other world you will feel the breeze which is incomparable. There is nothing in life to which it can be compared.
\nIt is sheer joy, so pure that even to have a little taste of it is enough to transform your whole life.<\/p>\n
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