◎Jade Tablet - 06 - 36
◎The Vertical Path of Youth - 36
◎The Fifth Body and Androgyny
The fifth body, the causal body, is the last individuality. Since there is no distinction between male and female beyond this, the completely unconventional symbol of androgyny appears here.
Androgyny means the absence of distinction between male and female, transcending duality, that is, the difference between life and death or you and I. It would not be wrong to already call this a certain kind of enlightenment. It is a rather decisive scene.
It would be unfortunate if the state beyond the distinction of male and female reached by the swordsman Tesshu Yamaoka at the end of the Edo period is only considered an excuse for stopping his frequent visits to brothels.
According to OSHO Bhagwan, a person who has reached the fifth body remains awake even in sleep. Here lies the answer to the famous question in the Upanishads, "the state of dreamless deep sleep." All unconscious aspects disappear. One is constantly awake 24 hours a day.
OSHO Bhagwan says that there is bliss in this state.
Furthermore, according to him, since there is no thought in the causal body, the thoughtless existential vibration of a person who has reached the fifth body attracts animals such as cats, which also have no thought, to their vicinity. Perhaps upon seeing this, Zen practitioners posed the mischievous riddle of whether a dog has Buddha-nature or not. It may be that someone who understood that a dog is a symbol of the thoughtless causal body posed that koan.
(Reference: The Quest for the Miraculous, Vol. 2 / Osho, pp. 179-189)
