Love Is Not Pleasure

Without the understanding of pleasure you will never be able to understand love. Love is not pleasure. Love is something entirely different. And to understand pleasure, as I said, you have to learn about it. Now for most of us, for every human being, sex is a problem. Why? Listen to this very carefully. Because you are not able to solve it, you run away from it. The sannyasi runs away from it by taking a vow of celibacy, by denying. Please see what happens to such a mind. By denying something which is a part of your whole structure - the glands and so on - by suppressing it, you have made yourself arid, and there is a constant battle going on within yourself.

As we were saying, we have only two ways of meeting any problem, apparently: either suppressing it or running away from it. Suppressing it is really the same thing as running away from it. And we have a whole network of escapes - very intricate, intellectual, emotional - and ordinary everyday activity. There are various forms of escapes into which we will not go for the moment. But we have this problem. The sannyasi escapes from it in one way, but he has not resolved it; he has suppressed it by taking a vow, and the whole problem is boiling in him. He may put on the outward robe of simplicity, but this becomes an extraordinary issue for him too, as it is for the man who lives an ordinary life. How do you solve that problem?

The Book of Life - November 22

Pleasure
愉快,高興;滿足[U]
He finds great pleasure in reading.
他從讀書中得到很大樂趣。

Entirely
完全地;徹底地

Sannyasi
印度的托缽僧

Celibacy
獨身生活


Suppressing
抑制,忍住
Even the grave old gentleman could not suppress a laugh.
連那位嚴肅的老紳士都禁不住笑了。

Arid
枯燥的;無生氣的
The audience soon grew tired of his arid speech.

Constant
不停的,接連不斷的,持續的
He hates his wife's constant nagging.
他討厭他妻子嘮叨不休。

Apparently
顯然地
He was apparently much surprised at the news.
他對那個消息顯然感到十分驚異。

Intricate
錯綜複雜的;複雜精細的
The intricate machine requires a skilled operator.
這種複雜精細的機器須由技能熟練的人操作。

Resolved
下定決心的;斷然的

Vow
立誓出家

Robe
長袍,罩袍;浴衣,睡袍[C]
Many Arabs wear robes.
許多阿拉伯人穿長袍。

Simplicity
簡樸,樸素[U]
She dressed with elegant simplicity.
她的穿著樸素而雅緻。

extraordinary
異常的;特別的,破例的;非凡的
Her strength of will was extraordinary.
她的意志力非凡。