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The word 'tantra' means the capacity of expansion, that which goes expanding.
Sex shrinks you, Tantra expands you. It is the same energy, but it takes a
turn. It is no longer selfish, no longer self-centered. It starts spreading -
it starts spreading to the whole existence. In sex, for a moment you can attain
to the orgasm, and at a great cost. In Tantra you can live in the orgasm
twenty-four hours a day, because your very energy becomes orgasmic. And your
meeting is no longer with any individual person: your meeting is with the
universe itself. You see a tree, you see a flower, you see a star, and there is
something like orgasm happening.
PHIOSOPHIA PERENNIS, Vol. 1, Chapter 6 - Osho
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And about sex also people are very, very worried. That
very worry and that very effort to do something is the problem. Sex happens; it
is not a thing that you have to do. So you have to learn the eastern attitude
toward sex, the Tantra attitude. The Tantra attitude is that you be loving to a
person. There is no need to plan, there is no need to rehearse in the mind.
There is no need to do anything in particular: just be loving and available. Go
on playing with each other's energy. And when you start making love, there is
no need to make it great. Otherwise you will be pretending and so will the
other person. He will pretend that he is a great lover and you will pretend
that you are a great lover ... and both are unsatisfied! There is no need to
pose anything. It is a very silent prayer. Making love is meditation. It is
sacred, it is the holiest of holies. So while you are making love to a man go
very slowly ... with taste, taking in every flavor of it. And very slowly:
there is no hurry, no need to hurry, enough time is there.
THE OPEN SECRET, Chapter 4 - Osho |
And
while making love, forget about orgasm. Rather, be in a relaxed state with the
man, relax into each other. The western mind is continuously thinking about
when it is coming and how to make it fast and great and this and that. The
thinking does not allow the body energies to function. It does not allow the
body to have its own way; the mind goes on interfering... Relax with the man.
If nothing happens there is no need for anything to happen. If nothing happens
then that is what is happening...and that too is beautiful! Orgasm is not such
a thing that it has to happen every day. Sex should be just being together,
just dissolving into each other. Then one can keep making love for half an
hour, for one hour, just relaxing into each other. Then you will be of utter
mindlessness, because there is no need for the mind. Love is the only thing
where the mind is not needed; and that is where the West is wrong: it brings in
the mind even there!
THE OPEN SECRET, Chapter 4 - Osho
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If you can go on growing in this intimacy, which is no more
excitement, then the joy will arise: first excitement, then love, then joy. Joy
is the ultimate product, the fulfillment. Excitement is just a beginning, a
triggering; it is not the end. And those who finish at excitement will never
know what love is, will never know the mystery of love, will never know the joy
of love. They will know sensations, excitement, passionate fever, but they will
never know the grace that is love. They will never know how beautiful it is to
úbe with a person with no excitement but with silence, with no words,
with no effort to do anything. Just being together, sharing one space, one
being, sharing each other, not thinking of what to do, what to say, where to
go, how to enjoy; all those things are gone. The storm is over and there is
silence. And it is not that you will not make love but it will not be a making
really; it will be a love happening. It will happen out of grace, out of
silence, out of rhythm; it will arise from your depths, it will not be bodily
really. There is a sex which is spiritual, which has nothing to do with the
body. Although the body partakes in it, participates in it, it is not the
source of it. Then sex takes on the color of Tantra, only then.
LET GO! DARSHAN DIARY - Osho |
And this merger should
not become unconscious, otherwise you miss the point. Then it is a beautiful
sex act, but not transformation. It is beautiful, nothing is wrong in it , but
it is not transformation. And if it is unconscious then you will always be
moving in a rut. Again and again you will want to have this experience. The
experience is beautiful as far as it goes, but it will become a routine. And
each time you have it, again more desire is created. he more you have it, the
more you desire it, and you move in a viscous circle. You don't grow, you just
rotate. Rotation is bad, because then growth is not happening. Then energy is
simply wasted. Even if the experience is good, the energy is wasted, because
much more was possible. And it was just at the corner, just a turn, and much
more was possible. With the same energy the divine could have been achieved.
With the same energy the ultimate ecstasy is possible, and you are wasting that
energy in momentary experiences. And by and by those experiences will become
boring, because repeated again and again, everything becomes boring. When the
newness is lost, boredom is created. If you remain alert you will see: first,
changes of energy in the body, second, dropping of the thoughts from the mind;
and third, dropping of the ego from the heart.
MY WAY THE WAY OF THE WHITE CLOUDS, CHAPTER 6 -
Osho |
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