The spirituality of the tantric sex act
posted by Osho
Freud said somewhere that man is born neurotic.
According to Osho, man is not born neurotic, but he is born into a neurotic humanity and the society around him makes everyone neurotic sooner or later.
Man is born natural, real, normal, but the moment the child becomes part of society, the neurosis begins to function.
Neurosis consists of a split - a deep split.
You are not one. You are two or even many.
Realize that your feelings and thoughts have become two different things: and that is the basic neurosis.
Your thinking part and your feeling part have become two and you are identified with the thinking part, not the feeling part.
But feeling is more real than thinking, feeling is more natural than thinking.
You were born with a heart that feels, but thinking is cultivated: it is given by society.
And your feeling has become a repressed thing.
When a child is born, he is a sensitive being: he feels things. She is not yet a thinking being.
It is natural, just like anything in nature.
But we started to shape it, to cultivate it. She has to repress her feelings.
When she wants to cry, she can't cry because her parents won't approve.
It must behave, it must behave according to a certain ideology, certain ideas.
Only then will she be loved.
The natural being, the real being, begins to become repressed, and the unnatural, the unreal, is imposed on it.
This unreal is your mind.
And there comes a time when the division is so great that you cannot transcend it.
You go on completely forgetting what your nature was, your real nature.
And that creates a very neurotic state.
You don't know what you want, you don't know what your real needs are.
And then you go on looking for inauthentic needs, because only the feeling heart can give you the sense, the direction, what your real needs are.
For example, you may keep eating more and more, gorging yourself on food and you may never feel full.
The need is for love, not for food.
But food and love are deeply related.
So when the need for love is not felt, or is repressed, a false need for food is created and you can continue eating.
Since the need is false, it will never be satisfied and we live in false needs.
That's why there is no satisfaction.
Then realize that unless you are whole and one, you are missing out on all life.
Do not remain in a divided state. You must become one.
You can go on thinking, but that won't help, because thinking is the technique for dividing.
Feeling unites, synthesizes, brings things together.
Then slowly return to the center of feeling...
Watch your breathing... If there is tension, any blockages in the chest...
Breathe softly and deeply...
Get off the surface, get out of the mind and dive deep into your heart.
Feeling is something whole: your whole body, your mind, everything you are, is involved.