Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

by Osho

Except man … no trees have any habits, nor birds, nor fish. The whole of nature is spontaneous. It simply functions when it is needed, it stops functioning and remains simply silent when it is not needed. In fact, according to me this is sanity: To do only as much as is needed. Even to go a single inch further and you have moved beyond sanity, you have become insane. And there is no end to insanity. This can be understood from many aspects. Except man, no animal is interested in sex all the year round. There is a season, a mating season. And once that season is gone, for the remainder of the year nobody bothers about sex. You will not find sex maniacs amongst birds, nor will you find celibates. You will not find, even in their mating season, that they are especially happy. I have been watching birds, animals, and I am amazed that their sexual activity seems to be a thing forced on them. They don’t look happy. Just look at a dog making love. He is doing it under some compulsion, some biological compulsion; otherwise he is not interested. And once the season is gone there is no interest at all. That’s why marriage has not appeared in the animal world. What will you do with a marriage? Once the mating season ends—good-bye to each other! But with man it is a habit. He has turned even a biological necessity into a habit. You will be surprised to know that according to psychologists and their surveys, every man is thinking about women at least once every four minutes, and every ...

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