From Sex to Samadhi

It is a long way from sex to samadhi. Samadhi is the ultimate goal; sex is only the first step. And I want to emphasize that people who refuse to recognize and who censor the first step cannot even reach the second. They cannot progress at all. It is imperative to take the first step with awareness, understanding and attention. But be warned: sex is not an end in itself, sex is the beginning and, in order to progress, many steps are necessary.

The biggest backwardness for the whole of humanity has been its reluctance to take even the first step. And she aspires to reach the last! A man despises the first rung and still has ambitions to reach the bottom rung; has no experience of candle light and yet wants to claim the splendor of the sun, we must learn to understand the faint light of a candle, which lives for a while and is immediately extinguished by a gentle breeze. In order to awaken anxiety, desire, restlessness for the last step - the desire to reach the sun - the first must be given correctly.

Enjoying quiet music can pave the way for eternal music; the experience of a faint candle can lead us to infinite light; knowing a drop is the prelude to knowing the ocean.

Knowledge of the atom can reveal the mystery of all material forces. Nature has given us a small atom of sex, but we don't recognize it at all. We don't even know him completely. This is because we neither have the clarity of the mind nor the sense of mystery to recognize it, to understand it or to experience it. And so, we are tremendously distant from understanding this process that can lead us from sex to samadhi. As soon as man understands and reveres this process of transcendence, he will organize himself in a new and higher social order.

Man and woman are two different poles, the positive and negative energy poles. The correct meeting of these two poles closes a circuit and produces a type of electricity, and the direct knowledge of this electricity is possible if the coitus period, when you are deeply and completely surrendered to each other, can be maintained for an hour. A high charge producing an aura of electricity will develop on its own; if the body's currents are in a complete and total space, a bit of light can be seen in the darkness. A couple experiencing this electric current of energy is drinking from the bowl full of life.

You must review your life, especially the chapter on sex, since ABC.

Sex must not only be an instrument of pleasure, it must also be a means of spiritual growth. Sex is a yogic process. I think the birth of Christ, Mahavira or Buddha was accidental; each birth was the fruit of the most complete union of two people. The deeper the union, the more evolved the child; the more superficial the encounter, the less developed.

But today, the caliber of humanity is sinking further and further. Some people blame the deterioration of moral standards, while others attribute it to the effects of Kaliyuga, the predestined era of chaos, but all of these assumptions are false and worthless. The deterioration of man is due only to the madness of our sexual attitude, both in theory and in practice.

Sex has lost its sacred origin. The man's original sense of reverence for sex was overshadowed and degenerated into a mechanical nightmare, transforming it into subtle violence, in the exact sense of the word. Sex is no longer a loving experience, it is no longer a vehicle for the sacred and it is no longer a meditative act. And because of this, humanity is continually falling into an abyss.

The outcome of anything we do depends on the mental attitude with which we do it. If a drunk sculptor is making a statue, do you expect him to create a beautiful work of art? If a ballerina is dancing, do you expect a brilliant performance if she is upset, angry or sad? Similarly, our sexual approach has been wrong. Sex is the most overlooked aspect of our lives. Is it not a tremendous error that the phenomenon on which the procreation of life depends, on which children depend, and the new souls entering this world, is the most neglected? You are probably unaware that orgasm in lovemaking creates a situation in which the soul descends, and a new life is conceived. You just create the situation; when the necessary and appropriate conditions for a particular soul are fulfilled, it is born. The quality of the soul is directly related to the circumstances. A child conceived in anger, guilt or anxiety has been afflicted since birth.

The quality of our children can be improved, but to conceive a higher soul the conditions of conception must also be of a higher quality. Only then can higher souls be born and the level of humanity can finally be raised. That is why I say that when man becomes aware of sexual science, of sexual art, when he is able to pass this knowledge on to both young and old, we will be able to provide the circumstances that will give birth to what Aurobindo and Nietzsche called it Superman. This future humanity can be born and this world can be created, but until then there can be no progress; there can be no peace in the world; wars cannot be avoided, hatred cannot be abolished, immorality cannot be cured, evil cannot be eradicated, sexual exploitation and perversions cannot be uprooted and the current darkness cannot be dispensed with.

Even if we put all our modern technology and innovations to work, even if politicians, sociologists, religious leaders do the best they can, wars will not cease, tensions will not be eased, and violence and jealousy will not go away. For the past ten thousand years, the apostles, messiahs and leaders have preached against war, violence and anger, but no one has heard. All of the apostles of mankind, past and present, have not been successful. They failed.

From Bertrand Russel to Vinoba, everyone called for peace, and yet we are preparing for a third great war, which will make the previous ones seem like child's play.

This is the result of humanity's moral and religious teachings, but reason lies elsewhere and we urgently need to deal with it. This is because, until we succeed in bringing harmony to the sexual act, in bringing a spiritual syntax to sex, in coming to respect sex as the entrance to samadhi, a better humanity cannot come into being.

A new man must be born. The soul of man is anxious to ascend to the heights, to reach the sky, to be illuminated like the moon and stars, to bloom like flowers, to make music, to dance. The soul of man is in anguish; your soul is thirsty. But man is blind, he travels in circles in a vicious circle: he is unable to break with it, he is unable to rise above it. What is the cause? There is only one cause: your current method of procreation is absurd, it is full of madness. This is because we have not been able to make sex a door to samadhi. An enlightened sexual act can open the gate to samadhi.

The man is desperate; man is a slave to sex, and this despair must be discarded. We want knowledge, not ignorance. Knowledge alone is power, and knowledge of sex is an even greater power. It is dangerous to continue to live in ignorance about sex.

If a seed does not grow on a plant, we reason that the soil may not have been adequate, that the seed may not have had enough water, or that it has not received enough sunlight, we do not blame the seed. But if flowers do not bloom in a man's life, we say that he himself is responsible for this. Nobody thinks about the poverty of fertilizer, the lack of water or the lack of sunlight and nothing is done about it: man himself is accused of being evil. And so the plant of man has remained underdeveloped, has been repressed for lack of love and has been unable to reach its flowering stage.

Nature is harmony at a deep rate, but the artificiality that man has imposed on nature, the way he has interfered with it and the mechanical inventions that he has launched into the stream of life have created obstructions in many places, interrupted the flow. And the river of life itself is accused. "Man is evil; the seed is poisoned," they say.

I want to make it clear to you that the basic obstructions are created by man himself, otherwise the river of love would flow freely and reach the ocean of God. Love is inherent in man. If obstructions are removed consciously, love can flow. Then love can rise and touch God, touch the Supreme.

What are these man-made obstacles? First, the most obvious obstruction has been opposition to sex and criticism of passion. This barrier has destroyed the possibility of the birth of love in man.

The pure truth is that sex is the starting point of love. Sex is the beginning of the journey to love. The origin, the Gangotri of the Ganges of love is sex, passion. And everyone behaves as if he were an enemy. Every culture, every religion, every Guru, every seer has attacked this Gangotri, this source. And the river has remained bottled up, people have always proclaimed: "sex is sin; sex is irreligious; sex is poison". But we never seem to understand that it is actually sexual energy itself that progresses to reach the inner ocean of love. Love is the transformation of sexual energy. The flowering of love comes from the seed of sex.

Would it ever occur to you that when coal is turned into diamond? Only the energy of sex can flourish in love. But everyone, including the great thinkers of humanity, is against him. This opposition will not allow the seed to sprout, and the palace of love is destroyed in its foundation. Enmity towards sex destroyed the possibility of love.

due to this conceptual and basic error, no one feels the need to go through the process of transforming it. How can we transform someone who is our enemy, someone we oppose, with whom we are in continuous war? A discussion has been forced between the man and his energy, as opposed to his sexual needs.

"The mind is poisoned, so fight it," the man is told. The mind exists in man, sex also exists in him, and despite that, he is expected to be free of inner conflicts. A harmonious existence is expected of him, he has to fight and pacify. These are the teachings of your leaders. On the one hand, they drive him crazy, and on the other they open hospices to treat him. They spread the germs of the disease and then build hospitals to cure the patient.

Due to this enmity with sex, opposition and repression, man is languishing inwardly. He can never get rid of something that is at the very root of his life and because of that constant, inner conflict, his whole being has become neurotic. He is sick. This perverted sexuality that is so evident in humanity is due to its so-called leaders and saints; they are to blame for that. Until man gets rid of such teachers, moralists, religious leaders and their false sermons, the possibility of the emergence of love is nil.

Religion and culture pour out, poisons against sex in the human mind. They create conflict, war, they engage man in a battle against his own primary energy, and thus man has become weak, brute, empty of love and full of emptiness. Sex has to become a friend, not an enemy. Sex must be elevated to the purest heights.

Sex has four stages that must be understood. It is dangerous not to understand these four stages and the whole tradition has kept man unaware of these four stages.

The first stage is self-sexual.

When a child is born, he is narcissistic. She loves her body tremendously and that is beautiful: she knows only her body. Just by sucking on your own thumb, euphoria appears on your face; just playing with your own body, trying to put your big toe in your mouth a circle is created and the energy starts to move in a circle. The light naturally circulates in the child and makes him happy, because when the light circulates there is great inner joy.

The child plays with his own sexual organs without knowing that they are sexual organs. She has not yet been conditioned yet: She knows her own body as a whole. Certainly, the sexual organs are the most sensitive part of the body. She has tremendous fun touching them, playing with them ...

And this is where society, the poisoning society, enters the child's psyche: "Don't touch!" "No" is the first dirty, obscene word. And from that obscene word, many others emerge: you can't, don't, all of these are obscene words; once the child is told, "No!", and the angry parents, the mother or the father, and that look, the child's hands are removed from his genitals, which are naturally very pleasant. She really feels pleasure and is not being sexual or anything. These are just the most sensitive and most alive parts of your body, that is all. But our conditioned minds - she is touching a sexual organ, this is bad, we remove her hands. We create guilt in the child. We begin to destroy his natural sexuality, to poison the original source of the pleasure of his being. We are creating hypocrisy in it; she will be a diplomat. When parents are present, they will not play with their sexual organs. The first lie appeared; it cannot be true. Now she knows that if she is true to herself, if she respects herself, if she respects her own pleasure, if she respects her own instinct, parents will be angry. It is unprotected, it depends on them and its survival is with them. If they renounce it, she will be dead; so the point is that if she wants to live, she must be against herself, and so she has to give in. The natural result of this stupidity that has been perpetually practiced in humanity is that the child is no longer a natural being, hypocrisy has entered. She has to hide something from her parents or feel guilty. This is the self-sexual state: many people remain stagnant there. That's why there is so much masturbation around the world. It is a natural state, which would pass by itself - it is a phase of growth and if the parents do not disturb this phase of energy growth. The child becomes stagnant: he wants to play with his sexual organs and cannot. After a long period of repression, she is possessed by sexual energy, and once she has started masturbation, this can become a habit, a mechanical habit; and then it will never move to the second stage. And those responsible are the parents, the priest, the politicians, the whole social mind that has existed until now. This man can remain stagnant at this stage, which is very childish. It will never reach the complete growth of sexuality and it will never come to know the joy that can come only from a sexually mature being. And the irony is that these same people condemn masturbation, making very dangerous statements: they have been telling people who masturbate that they will be blind, they will become zombies, and they will never be smart, remaining stupid.

Now there is an absolute agreement, there are no two opinions about it; all psychology researchers agree that masturbation does not harm anyone, it is a natural discharge of energy. But this idea that you will be blind can make it dangerous for your eyes, because you will always think that you will be blind. So many people wearing glasses and the reason may not be in their eyes; the reason may be just somewhere else. so many millions of people are stupid, because no child is born stupid, all children are born smart. The reason may be elsewhere: In these techniques. You will remain sick, you will lose self-confidence. So many people are afraid, trembling continuously, without any confidence, no self-confidence, they are continually frightened, because they know what they have been doing.

Thousands of letters reach me: "We are caught in this trap; how can we get out of it?" Let me repeat: Masturbation has never hurt anyone. The moment when a person masturbates is a very sensitive and delicate moment; your whole being is open and flowing. If at that moment he suggests himself: "What if I go crazy? What if I go blind? What if I remain stupid?" it will make these constant self-hypnotic suggestions the cause of a thousand and one diseases, a thousand and one psychological problems and perversions. Who is responsible for this? The people who come to me arrive with all these perversions. Many are helped and grow beyond that. But society thinks I'm teaching people perversions. "You live in a perverted society!" If the child is allowed the natural phase of self-sexuality, he goes on to the second phase, the homosexual, which happens to few people; most remain in the first phase. Even when making love to men or women, people are doing nothing more than just mutual masturbation, because very few reach orgasmic states, and reach the glimpses that are bound to exist if their sexuality is mature. Very few people get to know God through the sexual act, which is a natural phenomenon. In the sexual act, meditation happens naturally. But it does not, and the reason is that millions, the majority, are stagnant in the first stage. Even though they were married and had children, their sexual act is nothing more than mutual masturbation. It's not really making love. Making love is an art; it needs great sensitivity, great awareness, meditative quality, maturity.

The second phase is homosexual.

Few people move on to the second phase; it is a natural phase. The child loves his body. If the child is a boy, he loves a boy's body, his body. Jumping into a girl's body would be too big a step. Naturally, he first loves other boys; or if the child is a girl, the first natural instinct is to love other girls because they have the same body type, the same type of being. She can understand girls better than boys; boys are a world apart. The homosexual phase is a natural phase. Then society helps people to remain stagnant again, because it creates barriers between men and women, girls and boys. If these barriers are not there, then the homosexual phase soon vanishes and the heterosexual stage initiates an interest in the opposite sex. But for that the society does not give much opportunity, a great Wall of China exists between boy and girl. At schools they have to sit separately or have to live in separate accommodation. Their meeting, their being together, is not accepted. The man is separated from the woman, sealed compartments are created: when the man wants to love, he cannot find the woman, when the woman wants to love, he cannot find the man. This is also not satisfactory, but it is better than nothing. Nature has to find its way. If you allow the natural course, it will find some indirect way. Otherwise, homosexuality is a natural phase; passes by itself.

And the third phase is heterosexual.

When self-sexuality, homosexuality is really completed, then there is the aptitude and maturity to get to know a totally different world, a different chemistry, psychology and spirituality. So it is possible to play with this world and with this different organism.

They are distinct poles, but when they approach, and there are times when they are really close and overlapping, the first luminous glimpses of completeness are reached.

So it is rare, many people think of it only as poetry. It is not poetry. It is an existential phenomenon, but it is necessary that the man and the woman are mature. They must have gone beyond the first two stages for this to happen. And very rarely, there are people who are mature men and mature women. Then nothing happens; they make love, but that love is only superficial. Deep down they are self-sexual, or at most, homosexual.

To love, a new type of being is needed that can accept the opposite polarity. And only with the opposite polarity, just as when negative and positive electrical charges meet, electricity appears, just like that; when the electricity of life meets, man and woman, yin and yang, Shiva and Shakti, this dissolution, this total oblivion, this drunkenness, disappear as separate entities, separate egos.

They no longer exist separately. This is the first natural experience of no-mind, non-ego, non-time, and this is the first natural experience of samadhi.

Once that is experienced, then a desire arises. How to achieve that samadhi so that it can become a natural state of affairs, and one does not have to depend on another body. So you don't have to depend on a woman. So you don't have to depend on a man. This is because dependency brings slavery.

From that experience, a person begins to look for ways, means and methods - Yoga, Tantra, So ... - so that he can reach the same state through his own efforts.

This can be achieved, because at the bottom of every human being is a man and a woman - half comes from his father, half comes from his mother. So the outer experience just detonated him, he simply acted as a catalytic agent.

Now you start to meditate. Then comes the last phase. This is brahmacharia.

The fourth stage: brahmacharia

The celibacy of the Buddhas. This is brahmacharia. The sexual act has disappeared; you don't need an outdoor fuse. Now your inner man and woman have reached a oneness, and that oneness is not momentary. This is real marriage; you are soldiers together. Now your natural state is to be orgasmic. A Buddha lives like this continuously; he inhales and exhales it.

These are the four stages of human maturity.

The human being is the only being who can repress or transform his energies. No other being can.

Repression and transformation exist as two aspects of a phenomenon. And this phenomenon is that the human being can do something about himself.

Trees exist, animals exist, but they can do nothing about their existence, they are part of it! They cannot put themselves out of it. They are mixed with their own energy, they cannot separate themselves.

The man can do something about you. He can observe himself from a distance, and look at his own energies as if they were separate.

Osho