Osho - Women's Breats

OSHO comments on Sankara’s sutra: ‘Do not be infatuated by the beauty, the breasts, the navel and the waistline of a woman’

Man is attracted to woman and woman is attracted to man. The opposite always attracts; it is hypnotic. A newborn’s first contact with this world is the breast of the mother; his journey in this world begins with the mother’s breast. Hence man’s obsession with woman’s breasts; that’s the first impact. That is why all paintings, pictures statues, films, stories, all go on revolving around the breasts of women. Women keep trying to hide the breasts and men keep trying to uncover them.

Indigenous People

Tribal people who live close to nature — who we call “primitive” — have no attraction to the breasts because their women’s bodies and breasts are not covered. Every child is free to suck milk from the breast of his mother as long as he wants. Sometimes he does so until the age of 10, even. In so-called “civilised” societies, they try to wean away the child from the breast of the mother as early as possible. The sooner they wean the child away from the breast, the deeper becomes the attraction for it.
People go on writing poetry, painting pictures & making statues depicting beauty of breasts. Their mind is totally obsessed with breasts. This means that the child was not satiated, he remained dissatisfied. “Sankara” says to remember this continuously — the earlier impact can only be removed by remembering this again & again.

Story of a Chicken

One scientist was experimenting with chickens. When a chicken was born of a hen’s egg, he did not let the chicken see the hen but kept it with a duck. When the chicken opened its eyes it saw the duck, & this was its first imprint. It would run after the duck & it would not recognise the hen. The duck could not tolerate the chicken running after her all the time so she used to kick it, beat it; despite this it would follow her everywhere. The hen tried her best to win it over, to get it near her, but it would be frightened of her & stand far away. At night also the chick wanted to sleep in the same place where the ducks were kept, but the ducks would throw it out. The hen wanted to take it to the hen house, but it was not ready to go there. The first imprint, the first conditioning, is very important. It goes on haunting you the whole of your life. The first event of life, whatever it is, always haunts a person, and you keep dreaming about it.

What is so attractive in a man’s or a woman’s body? Every person is half woman & half man. Your whole existence is incomplete. The womanly half in you goes on yearning for the man and the manly half in you goes on yearning for the woman.
Psychologists say that in the unconscious mind of every man is hidden the woman & in the unconscious mind of every woman is hidden the man. They go on searching outside till their inner man & inner woman meet. Until this happens, until your conscious & unconscious minds become one, attraction for the opposite will always be there. A man will be attracted towards a woman and a woman will be attracted towards a man.

In a statue of “Ardhanarishawara”, Shiva is shown as half woman & half man. Until the half man & half woman within you become the image of “Ardhanarishawara”, until you become whole within yourself, you will go on searching outside feeling lost & thinking that meeting a woman will bring fulfilment. But the woman is there in your unconscious mind. That is why all the yogas & tantras are basically the process of uniting your inner energies. When you become united & one within you, then your outer desire ceases to exist. At the same time, when the outer desire ceases to exist, only then can you become one. These two things are interdependent. 

Inner Man & Woman

No, it is not a question of a man or a woman. The attraction for the opposite is of no use. You must contemplate that these are perversions of flesh and thereby remove this imprint in the mind.
Continuous remembrance is like the waterfall which breaks the stone. Eventually, the stone turns to sand granules and water continues falling in the same way. This imprint is very strong and deep but if the thought continues like the trickle of water, one day the stone will break and disappear. And the day your imprints disappear, you become free.