Jacob Urlich 🌍

2026-07-23 20:44:58

Sex is a problem because it would seem that in that act, there is a complete absence of the self. In that moment, you are happy because there is the cessation of self-consciousness, of the ‘me’. You desire more of it, more of the abnegation of the self in which there is complete happiness, without the past or the future. You demand that complete happiness through full fusion and integration, so naturally it becomes all-important. It is something that gives me unadulterated joy, complete self-forgetfulness, and I want more and more of it. Now, why do I want more of it? Because everywhere else I am in conflict. Everywhere else – at all the different levels of existence, there is the strengthening of the self. Economically, socially, religiously, there is the constant thickening of self-consciousness, which is conflict. After all, you are self-conscious only when there is conflict. Self-consciousness is, in its very nature, the result of conflict, so everywhere else we are in conflict. In all our relationships with property, with people and with ideas, there is conflict, pain, struggle and misery, but in this one act, there is complete cessation of all that. Naturally, you want more of it because it gives you happiness, while all the rest leads you to misery, turmoil, conflict, confusion, antagonism, war and destruction. Therefore, the sexual act becomes all-significant, all-important. So, the problem is not sex, surely, but how to be free from the self.

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