DEALING WITH MENTAL ENCROACHMENT (BOMBARDMENT).
Q: (full question)
“In a society where we are bombarded daily by images, stimulus, thoughts and even ”glorification” of pornography by the media and so many people, how we can avoid this kind of energy, and prevent it from changing the quality of our vibration? Can you suggest how we can be in the world and maintain a high vibration at the same time?
Just another question: to change the quality of the sexual act, is the most important factor to bring consciousness to the act and to approach it without hurry, slowly like Osho taught? Thanks a lot.”
Z: You cannot be in the ocean without getting wet, so it is best to lean how to swim. Being in the world but not of it, is easier said than done. You can’t “avoid” the world, but as much as possible you can avoid prolonged or intimate contact in places and with people who reverberate like this. And, when you can’t help it, learn to induce the feeling of safety that your own body and energy can provide. There are many protection techniques, but I would rather you developed your own sense of body and space and kept to it, instead of mentalising or constructing any devices.
Everything has to do with programming and programming has to do with discipline – learning how to administer the “vehicle”, which in this case is body, mind, and feelings.
Understand. Nothing can change the quality of your vibration without your expressed or implied permission.
Begin by the mind but don’t just stay there. Watch your mind and how it directs your thoughts and actions. And how it “judges”. For example, what do you mean by “high vibration”? Is there a “low” vibration? The energy of power can be positive or negative. What is seen by some as aggression, by another is perceived as drive. And so on. Neutralize.
Learn to go into the spaces between thoughts. You know this. The Present. Then, coax your body into doing your will, gently, consistently. Learn to manage it, as a rider does his horse, as a child learns toilet-training.
“Maintaining a high vibration” implies Consciousness. It suggests being in control over the impulses that lead us to lose consciousness. Staying aware. The freedom of real choice. If we are not in control of the body, we have no real choice, only conflict.
Eliminate “belief” from your vocabulary and substitute it by experience and intuition that you own. If you believe in God, for example, it is because you have experienced a space that for you is godly, not because someone tells you or shames you into accepting it.
So…maintaining a high vibration is being one with Consciousness. Freedom has nothing to do with “doing” or what happens around you. You (the I AM) prevent the outside world from affecting you by occupying your space in consciousness. Do this by being happy. It is easier. Rather than a thought or a dry order, the body unit obeys commands that involve its energy fully. If you can generate the emotion of being happy, joyful, grateful, PRESENT for no reason at all, just because you love life, love your body… The body likes that. It will fill you with the energy of Self.
Pornography (and there are many kinds) is lethal for spiritual consciousness. When you are with your partner, BE with your partner, in the Presence of one another, without thought. In that space, allow the body to join in. Teach the body to follow your Consciousness, rather than the mind (and learn the difference).
Meditate with your partner. In India, some ancient Tantric Schools would have the partners spend one year meditating on one another – without touching! We can’t do this today, but we can eliminate the interfering mind and tune up the feelings to express joy, honour, holy-ness.
Quality follows Consciousness; they are synonyms. There is no hurry, but also, there must be a rhythm. Breathing, long, deep, rhythmic, is the best here. Everything in your body and world responds to breath. You can control the body and the emotions directly by controlling the breathing.
Above all, lovemaking mustn’t become a chore or a technique. Do what you can to stop mental interference. Do what you can to master the body impulse to hurry. Do what you can to identify and generate joy. And then, just BE. At this point true meditation happens.
They key here is to withdraw the ordinary focus upon the satisfaction of an “urge”, and focus instead on the whole body encounter. Not just skin or parts of the body, but embracing the emotional and higher mental aspects of one another.
Little by little, discover yourself and one another. In innocence. Do not allow sex to become a drug. Remember that the most common trigger to sex is in “the way we think” at every moment, about anything. So, change that!
Xxx Zzz
