Moving into the Unknown without Fear
Individual Talk
From:The Book of Secrets
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Osho,
We have always heard that Tantra is basically concerned with sex energy and sex center techniques, but you say that Tantra is all-inclusive. If there is any truth in the former standpoint, the majority of techniques in Vigyan Bhairav seem to be non-Tantric. Is this true?
We have always heard that Tantra is basically concerned with sex energy and sex center techniques, but you say that Tantra is all-inclusive. If there is any truth in the former standpoint, the majority of techniques in Vigyan Bhairav seem to be non-Tantric. Is this true?
Osho,
We have always heard that Tantra is basically concerned with sex energy and sex center techniques, but you say that Tantra is all-inclusive. If there is any truth in the former standpoint, the majority of techniques in Vigyan Bhairav seem to be non-Tantric. Is this true?
Osho continues:
We have always heard that Tantra is basically concerned with sex energy and sex center techniques, but you say that Tantra is all-inclusive. If there is any truth in the former standpoint, the majority of techniques in Vigyan Bhairav seem to be non-Tantric. Is this true?
"Life is sex. The word sex is not confined to reproduction, the whole play of life energy is sex. Reproduction is just a part of that play. Wherever two energies are meeting – negative and positive – sex has entered.
"It is difficult to understand. For example: you are listening to me. If you ask Freud, or if you ask Tantra masters, they would say that listening is passive, feminine, and speaking is male. Speaking is a penetration of you and you are receptive to it. Between a speaker and a listener a sex act is happening because the speaker is trying to penetrate you and the listener is receiving. The energy in the listener has become feminine, and if the listener has not become feminine there will be no phenomenon of listening. That is why the listener has to be totally passive. He should not think while listening because thinking will make him active. He should not go on arguing within between argument will make him active. While listening, he should be simply listening, not doing anything else. Only then can the message penetrate and become illumined. But then the listener has become feminine.
"Communication happens only when one party has become male and the other party has become female, otherwise there can be no communication. Wherever negative and positive meet, sex has happened. It may be on the physical plane – positive and negative electricity meet and sex has happened. Wherever polarities meet, opposites meet, it is sex. So sex is a very wide, a very spacious term, it is not concerned only with reproduction. Reproduction is only one type of phenomenon which is included in sex. Tantra says that when the ultimate bliss and ecstasy comes inside you, it means your own positive and negative pole have come to a meeting – because every man is both man and woman, and every women is both man and woman. You are born not only from woman or from man, you are born out of a meeting of the opposites. Your father has contributed, your mother has contributed. You are half your mother and half your father and they both coexist within you. When they meet within, ecstasy happens."
"It is difficult to understand. For example: you are listening to me. If you ask Freud, or if you ask Tantra masters, they would say that listening is passive, feminine, and speaking is male. Speaking is a penetration of you and you are receptive to it. Between a speaker and a listener a sex act is happening because the speaker is trying to penetrate you and the listener is receiving. The energy in the listener has become feminine, and if the listener has not become feminine there will be no phenomenon of listening. That is why the listener has to be totally passive. He should not think while listening because thinking will make him active. He should not go on arguing within between argument will make him active. While listening, he should be simply listening, not doing anything else. Only then can the message penetrate and become illumined. But then the listener has become feminine.
"Communication happens only when one party has become male and the other party has become female, otherwise there can be no communication. Wherever negative and positive meet, sex has happened. It may be on the physical plane – positive and negative electricity meet and sex has happened. Wherever polarities meet, opposites meet, it is sex. So sex is a very wide, a very spacious term, it is not concerned only with reproduction. Reproduction is only one type of phenomenon which is included in sex. Tantra says that when the ultimate bliss and ecstasy comes inside you, it means your own positive and negative pole have come to a meeting – because every man is both man and woman, and every women is both man and woman. You are born not only from woman or from man, you are born out of a meeting of the opposites. Your father has contributed, your mother has contributed. You are half your mother and half your father and they both coexist within you. When they meet within, ecstasy happens."
Publisher | Osho International |
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Duration of Talk | 95 mins |
File Size | 21.2 MB |
Type | Individual Talks |
Edition/ Version | 2 |
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