Love and Sex From a Spiritual Point of View
by Charles D. Miller
Man is repeatedly accused of all that is wrong and
rotting while religion and culture are praised. They say
that man is wrong and should change himself. No one
questions whether things are like they are because our
religion and culture are wrong and are unable to fill man
with love because of thousands and thousands of years of
false values. Today’s man will be the same tomorrow.
Although civilization and technology change from time
to time, man is the same and will be the same. The masses
of people are not prepared to review man’s religion and
culture, yet they are prepared to sing their praises at the
top of their lungs. Man won’t even agree to look back, to
reflect upon his ways and the direction of this thinking, to
check to see if they are not misleading, or to see if they
are not all wrong.
Jesus said, Watch out for false prophets. They
come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they
are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will
recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn
bushes or figs from thistles? Every good tree bears
good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good
tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot
bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good
fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by
their fruit you will recognize them. --MATTHEW
7:15-20 (NIV)
If we plant a seed and the fruit is bad, it proves that
the seed must have been bad. It is difficult to foretell
whether a particular seed will give good or bad fruit. You
may look it over carefully, and break it open, but you
cannot predict for sure whether the fruit will be good or
not. You will have to wait the test of time. Sow the seed.
A plant will sprout. Years will pass. A tree will emerge,
spread its branches and bear fruit. Only then will you know
whether the seed that was sown was good or bad.
Modern man is the fruit of those bad seeds that
religion and culture sowed thousands of years ago and
nurtured ever since. This fruit is bad; it is full of conflict
and misery. Modern man eulogizes those bad seeds and
expects love to grow from them. It cannot be, because,
any possibility for the truth of love has been killed by
religion. Love is within man; it is shut up inside man.
Love is not a commodity or thing to be purchased; it is
wrong to ask someone to create love. The problem is not
how to create love, but how to investigate and find out
why it is not able to manifest itself. What is hindering
love? What is the difficulty? Where is the dam that is
blocking love? If there were no barriers, love would be
showing itself and it would not be necessary to try to
persuade or guide it. Every man would be filled with love
if it weren’t for the barriers of false culture and
degrading, harmful religious traditions. Nothing can
stifle love. Love must happen. Love is our inherent
nature.
Why is man progressively becoming so much more
barren of love as he professes to be more and more
civilized, cultured and religious going regularly to
temples, mosques and churches to pray? Love can be seen
in birds, animals and plants or in those who have no
"developed" religion or culture. Aboriginal people
have no "developed" civilization, culture or religion.
Religion and culture’s most obvious obstruction or
barrier--that destroys the possibility of the birth of love
in man, has been opposition to sex and reproach against
passion. Sex is the origin or the beginning of the journey
to love. Everyone behaves like sex is their enemy. Every
religion, culture, guru, seeker, etc. has attacked sex. The
loud angry outcry has always been that sex is sin, sex is
bad, sex is irreligious; they have failed to realize that it is
the sex energy that travels to and reaches the inner ocean
of love. Love is the transformation of sex energy. The
flowering of love is from the seed of sex.
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