BECAUSE SEX HAS BEEN SUPPRESSED all over the world - OSHO

BECAUSE SEX HAS BEEN SUPPRESSED all over the world, SMELL HAS BECOME SUPPRESSED. The very word has become a little condemnatory. If I say to you, 'Do you hear?' or if I say to you, 'Do you see?' you don't feel offended. So, if I say, 'Do you smell?' -- one should not feel offended, it is the same language. Smell is a capacity -- just like seeing and hearing, smelling is a capacity. When I ask, 'Do you smell?' one feels offended because one has completely forgotten that it is a capacity.

There is A FAMOUS ANECDOTE about one English thinker, Dr. Johnson. He was sitting in a stagecoach and a lady entered. And she said to Dr. Johnson, 'Sir, you smell!'
    But he was a man of language, letters, a grammarian. He said, 'No, madam. You smell, I stink!'

SMELL IS A CAPACITY. 'You smell, I stink.' Linguistically he is right. That's how it should be if you follow grammar. But the very word has become very much condemnatory. What has happened to smell? ONCE YOU SUPPRESS SEX, SMELL IS SUPPRESSED.

—OSHO—
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