TANTRA FAILED FOR TWO REASONS- Osho

(14) Osho

TANTRA FAILED FOR TWO REASONS:

Meditation should be the most primary thing.

Osho what are the shortcomings of Tantra?

It is not a complete system.There is a basic fallacy that human beings fall into:They find a small truth, a part of the truth,And rather than discover the whole, the remaining part,They imagine to fill up the gap.Because they have part of the truth, they can argue and they can manage to make a system,But the remaining part is simply their invention.

All the systems have done that.

Rather than discovering the whole truth,
It is the human tendency to say: "Why bother?We have found a small piece, which is enough for the showcase,Which is enough to silence any enemy who raises any question."And the remaining is just invention.

For example, Tantra is right that sexual energy is the basic energy,So this energy should be transformed into higher forms.
It is a truth.But what happened is that they never went very deep into meditation;
Meditation remained just secondary.

And man's sexuality shows itself so powerful,That in the name of Tantra,
It became simply sexual orgy.

Without meditation that was going to happen.

Meditation should have been the most primary thing,Because that is going to transform the energy,But that became secondary.

And many people who were sexually perverted, sexually repressed,
Joined the Tantra School.

These were the people who brought all their perversions,All their repression.They were not interested in any transformation,
They were interested only in getting rid of their repression;Their interest was basically sexual.

So, although Tantra has a piece of truth, it could not be used rightly.

Unless that piece of truth is put in second place,And meditation moves into first place,
it will always happen that in Tantra,
People will be doing all kinds of perversions.

And with a great name, they will not feel
That they are doing anything wrong;
They will feel that they are doing something religious,Something spiritual.

T A N T R A failed for two reasons.

One was an inner reason.That meditation was not made the central point.
And second,Tantra had no special methodologyFor the perverted and the repressed,So that first their repression and perversions are settledAnd they become normal.

And once they become normal,
Then they are introduced to meditation.
Only after deep meditation should they be allowedIn Tantra experiments.

It was a wrong arrangement,So the whole thing became,In the name of a great system,
Just an exploitation of sex.

First people should be introduced to meditation, and then they should be introduced to Tantra methods.

This is not T A N T R A.

Tantra methods are totally different.
These people who are doing Tantra,
they don't know anything about Tantra.

For example Ramakrishna meditated deeply,
and whenever he felt any sexual urge disturbing his meditation,he would ask his wife Sharda - who was a beautiful woman -
to sit on a high stool, naked, and he would sit in front of her, just looking at her,
meditating on her till that sexual urge subsided.

Then he would touch the feet of Sharda, his own wife,and he would thank her, saying:
"You have been helping me immensely;
otherwise, where would I have gone?
The urge needed some expression,
and just watching you was enough."

The temple of Khajuraho has beautiful statues in all sexual postures.

It was a Tantra School, that made the temple and those statues.

And the first thing the student had to do,
was to meditate on each statue.
And they are arranged in such a way, that from one corneryou go around the temple in a circle.

It may take six months, but you have to watch each statue,
until you can see it just as a statue,
with no sexuality in it -
and it is in a sexual posture.

But in your watching it, seeing it for months,
it becomes a pure piece of art;all
pornography disappears.

Then you move to another.And all the perversions of human mind have been put into the statues.

And when you have circled the whole temple,only then will th Master allow you inside the temple.Those six months are of immense meditation and of tremendous release,all repression gone;you ar feeling absolutely light.Then the Master allows you in.And inside the temple there is no sexual statue;inside the temple there is nothing - emptiness.

Then the Master teaches you how to go deeper into your meditation,which has arisen in the six months, and now you can go very deep,because there is no hindrance, no problem, no sexuality.

And this going deep into meditation with no sexual disturbance means,the sexual energy is moving with th meditation,not against it

That is how it is transformed and takes higher forms.

OSHO...☆☆☆

From: "The Path of the Mystic"

Osho's talks in Uruguay

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