There is nothing wrong in being homosexual -- you need
not feel guilty about it. One certainly has to go beyond sex, but that is as
applicable  to heterosexuality as it is applicable to homosexuality.  Heterosexuality
or homosexuality are just different styles of the same  stupidity! You need not feel
guilty. In fact looking at the population of the wworld,
Homosexuality should be suported. At least you will not be increasing
the population of the   world, you will not be loading the earth more. It is already
loaded too  much.  
             Homosexuality should be valued, respected -- it is pure fun!  Heterosexuality is dangerous.

And what is wrong? If two persons are  
enjoying each other's bodies, nothing is wrong. It should be their  concern,
nobody else's business to interfere. But the society is continuously interfering in
everything; it does not  leave anybody any privacy. It enters in your bedroom too.
Your society  is not a free society. It talks of freedom and democracy and all that  
rot, but it is pure slavery, it is a big prison. And your priests and  your so-called
God are all Peeping Toms. They are all looking into your  private lives to see what
you are doing. It should be nobody else's  business.  
             What is wrong loving a man or woman? Two men can
love each other, two  women can love each other. Love is a value in itself. And fun  
should not be condemned. Life is already such a burden, such a drag,  such a
boredom. Leave at least something in life so people can feel a  little less bored.
Here you need not feel afraid to show yourself the way you are. My  whole
approach is to help you to be the way you are, because that is the  only way to help
you transcend it. Feel guilty and you will remain the  same. Guilt never transforms
anybody. And homosexuality is such an innocent phenomenon. Why is it so
much  condemned? The reason is that if it is not condemned, the fear is that  
almost everybody will turn homosexual because every child has the  tendency.
Every child passes through the stage when he is homosexual.  Every boy, every girl,
passes through a time when boys like boys and  girls like girls. The fear is that if
many people turn homosexual --  particularly in the past when the population was
not big and every  society wanted greater numbers because numbers meant
power... To allow  homosexuality was dangerous; it had to be condemned,
absolutely  condemned, so much so that in a few countries it is the greatest crime.  
             For example, in Ayatollah Khomaniac's country, Iran, it is one of the  
greatest crimes. You can be sentenced for your whole life or you can  even be
sentenced to death -- just for being homosexual. It seems  absolutely absurd,
ridiculous, but in the past there was some reason for  it. Every society wanted to

be more powerful. It was a constant  struggle -- a struggle between groups, a struggle
between tribes, a  struggle between clans -- who will succeed? And the only
deciding  factor was your number, how many you were. If people became
homosexual, then numbers will decrease. Hence it has  to be condemned as the
greatest sin. It may have some meaning if you think of the past, but in the present
it  is absolutely meaningless. In fact, the whole situation has become just  the
opposite, now heterosexuality is the danger; less numbers are  needed. If humanity
goes on growing this way, then we cannot support  humanity, we cannot live any
longer. By the end of this century the  population will be so much, the poverty will
be so much that there seems  to be no way out except for a Third World War
which will kill almost  everybody so that a few people can start the whole story
again.  
             I have heard a story, a twenty-first century story: The Third World War has
happened, and a monkey is sitting on a rock  taking a sunbath. And a female
monkey comes with an apple and gives the  apple to the monkey. And the
monkey says, "My God, are we going to  start it all over again?"  
             Homosexuality is condemned because there is every possibility, if it is  not
condemned, that many more people will turn towards it. The inner  tendency is
there in every person. In fact the person who is against  it, the more he is against it,
the more he has the tendency. Deep  down, unconsciously, he knows it is there. To
repress it he has to be  very much against it. He feels disgusted by the very idea --
but nobody  is telling him to become homosexual. But if others feel attracted,
then  it is not your business to interfere or to condemn them. It is their  freedom!
And they are not doing any harm to anybody. It is a harmless  game -- stupid,
certainly, but not a sin.    
             But as far as stupidity is concerned all sex is stupid, for the simple  reason
that it is a biological urge and you are not the master of it,  you are just a victim.
And you need not be so much worried about it because homosexuality has a  very
beautiful origin: it originated in the monasteries. It is  something religious: The
first homosexuals were monks and nuns --  Christian, Buddhist, Jaina, all great
religions have contributed their  share to it. It was bound to be so because there are
monasteries in  existence even now where no woman has ever entered.  
             In a Catholic monastery in Europe in Mount Athos, for one thousand years  
no woman has entered; not even a six month-old girl has been allowed to  enter.
What kind of people are living there? A six month-old girl and  they are afraid
even of that! What can they do? But repressing sex  creates fear. So the whole
monastery is full of men; and homosexuality  is a natural by product if only boys
are together or only girls are  together. Religious people have contributed greatly.  
             Educationalists have  contributed greatly, because boys have to be educated separately.

They  have to reside in different hostels specially for them and girls have
to  stay aloof in separate hostels, in separate schools. If you put too many girls
together they are bound to become lesbians,  because when the sexual urge takes
possession of them and they cannot  find the boy, then anything is better than
nothing...  
             Human society has been forced so much to live in unnatural circumstances  
-- and a monastery is one of the most unnatural circumstances. It is a  zoo, a
religious zoo. Homosexuality was born there, so you need not  feel very bad
about. You are a religious person! And you have a great  line of homosexuals... If
you look for homosexuals you will be surprised: many poets, many  authors, many
painters, many musicians, many dancers, many great people,  many creative
people, were homosexuals. Many Nobel prize-winners have  been homosexuals.
And don't be worried about enlightenment either because at least one  
homosexual I know became enlightened -- Socrates; he was a homosexual.  And
there are suspicions about Jesus. I cannot prove it, they are only  suspicions --
because he moved with boys always. Those twelve  apostles... who knows? But if he
was, nothing is wrong in it. Socrates  was certainly a homosexual, Plato was,
Aristotle was. Greeks are great  people... Greeks have been homosexuals for
centuries. All their great people have  been homosexuals. So you need not worry -
- you have a great history  behind you!   Walt Whitman was a homosexual -- one
of the greatest poets of all the  ages. There seems to be something in
homosexuality that makes people  creative, or creative people are homosexuals.
There is something in it  and I can see where the point is. When you stop creating
children, your  creativity takes new turns, new dimensions. You create poetry, you  
create painting.  
             And the people who have been condemning homosexuality for ages are
also  condemning it for one more thing. As far as man/woman relationship is  
concerned, it is always on the rocks, because man cannot understand the  mind of
the woman, the woman cannot understand the mind of man. They  are poles
apart. That's their attraction, but that's also their  conflict, constant conflict. If
homosexuality is allowed, accepted, the  fear is that many people will settle into
homosexuality, because a man  can understand the other man more easily -- they
have the same mind.   
             And the women can understand each other more easily -- they have the  
same mind. That's why homosexuals are called "gay" people. They are really gay!  
The heterosexuals look so sad. Whenever you see a couple, you can  immediately
know whether they are married or not. If they are looking  dull and dead they are
married. Marriage kills all joy for the simple  reason that it creates so many
conflicts. Hence all societies have condemned it for the simple reason that if it  is
not condemned, what will happen to reproduction? In the past it had  some
meaning, but now it has no meaning.  Now the day has come when homosexuality

can be accepted, should be  accepted,
as a natural outlet for your sexual energies. I am not  against it -- I am not for it
either. I am simply saying that if you  have to live your sex you can choose your
style, you are free to choose  your style. If you decide to be stupid, at least you
should be given  the freedom of what kind of stupid you want to be! I give you
total  freedom. My effort here is to help you to go beyond it, so if you are
homosexual  you have to go beyond homosexuality, if you are heterosexual you
have to  go beyond heterosexuality. And there are other people who are neither,  
who are auto-erotic, auto-sexual. They have to go beyond their  auto-eroticism.  
             Man has to transcend sex, whatsoever kind of sex it is, because unless  you
go beyond your biology you will never know your soul. But meanwhile  -- before
you go beyond -- it is your freedom to be whatsoever you want  to be. Don't
make a problem out of it. Nothing has to be done about it. I  don't tackle
individual problems. My whole approach is that there are  millions of diseases, but
there is only one cure and that cure is  meditation.    
             You meditate -- homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual... You meditate.  
Become more still and more silent. Create inner emptiness. Become more  
transparent. And then things will start changing. You will be able to  see what you
are doing to yourself. And if it is right you will go on  doing it with more joy, with
more totality, with more intensity, with  more passion. And if it is wrong it will
simply drop, just like dead  leaves falling from a tree.  
             So I cannot suggest any specific method because to me all the problems  are
arising because we have become minds and we have forgotten that deep  down
there is a space within us which can be called no-mind. Entering  that space, no-
mind, will give you perspective, vision, clarity. Meditate. Sit silently watching your
thoughts -- homosexual,  heterosexual, whatsoever they are, it doesn't matter.
You watch, you  become the witness. Slowly slowly a distance will be created
between you and your thoughts. And one day suddenly -- the realization that you  
are not your mind. And that day a revolution has happened within you.  After that
day you will never be the same again. A transcendence will  have happened. After
that, whatsoever you do is right; you can't do  wrong then. And before that,
whatsoever you do is wrong. So when I say I have nothing against homosexuality I
am not supporting  it, remember. I am not saying, "Be homosexual." I don't have
anything  against heterosexuality either, but I am not supporting heterosexuality.  
I am not supporting anything. These are all mind games. And you have  to go
beyond all the games. -  

OSHO.