Osho Tantra Discourses

Osho on Soulmate – Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soulmates

Osho on Soulmate

Question – Osho, To find a soulmate sounds nice, but almost impossible. Would you please say something more about it? And how can it even come close to finding a Master? Osho – Prem Aniruddha, IT IS CERTAINLY ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to find the soulmate — even if ALL facilities are available. The earth is big, [...]

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Osho – Tantra means the science of falling in love with existence

Osho on Love making and Tantra

(Osho hands Tantra Mridani her sannyas name with the comments) Osho – You have a simply far-out name. (laughter) This is your name: Ma Tantra Mridani. Mridani means erotic partner of the cosmic lover (much laughter). Is it not nice? But you can only become a partner of the cosmic lover through tantra, there is [...]

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Osho – Watch greed, watch sex, watch anger, possessiveness – don’t get identified

Osho on Watching

Osho – Identification is the root and everything else is nothing but leaves. Being identified with greed, being identified with anger, being identified with sex, is the root. And remember, it is the same whether you are identified with greed, or sex, or even meditation. Love, MOKSHA, God – it makes no difference, it is [...]

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Osho on Choicelessness – When you are identified with something you have lost your soul

Osho on Choicelessness and Soul

Osho – Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation to choose, if you can remain choicelessly aware, the trap disappears on its own accord, because when you don’t choose you don’t help the trap to be there [...]

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Osho – Tantra was born as a rebellion a rebellion against Buddhism, not against Buddha

Osho on Tantra and Buddhism

Question – How did tantra grow out of buddhism which, as far as i know, views sex as a hindrance to meditation? Osho – It is related to the first question. What Buddha said must have been misunderstood. Yes, he said that to go into meditation one has to go beyond sex. Now, the people [...]

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Osho on Chogyam Trungpa, Use of Alcohol and Sex in Tantra Tradition

Osho on Chogyam Trungpa

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Question – How is it that great masters like Chogyam Trungpa get so drunk on occasional festivities that they have to be carried home? Can the use of alcohol for enjoyment disturb a certain awareness of seekers? Osho - Who told you that this man is a Master? He belongs to a tradition in [...]

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Osho – The basic problem of love is to first become mature

Osho on basic problem of Love

Osho – You can go on changing your husband or your wife a thousand and one times, you will again find the same type of woman and the same misery repeated in different forms – but the same misery repeated; it is almost the same. You can change your wife, but you are not changed. [...]

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Osho – The ’need-love’ or the ’deficiency-love’ depends on the other

Osho on immature love

Osho – The first thing: There are two kinds of love. C.S. Lewis has divided love into these two kinds: ’need-love’ and ’gift-love’. Abraham Maslow also divides love into two kinds. The first he calls ’deficiency-love’ and the second he calls ’being-love’. The distinction is significant and has to be understood. The ’need-love’ or the [...]

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Osho – There are two traditions of tantra – one is Hindu, another is Buddhist.

Osho – Tara is also the name of a tantra goddess. There are two traditions of tantra – one is Hindu, another is Buddhist. In the Buddhist tradition tara is the name of the tantra goddess. And every Buddhist tantrika has to practise the idea of the goddess with the beloved. When a tantra worshipper [...]

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Osho on Shortcoming in Tantra Teachings led to its Failure

Osho on Shortcoming in Tantra Teachings

Question – Beloved Osho, do you see shortcomings in the teachings of tantra that incline you to feel tantric methods are not suitable for us? Osho – 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 [...]

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Osho on Spontaneity, Guilt and Listening to Inner Voice

Osho on Spontaneity, Guilt

Osho : FIRST, IN TANTRA, spontaneity is the greatest value – to be just natural, to allow nature to happen. Not to obstruct it, not to hinder it; not to distract it, not to take it in some other direction where it was not going on its own. To surrender to nature, to flow with [...]

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Osho on Tantra approach, Is Tantra a way of Indulgence

Osho on Tantra Indulgence

Question : Is n’t Tantra a way of Indulgence? Osho : IT IS NOT. It is the ONLY way to get out of indulgence. It is the only way to get out of sexuality. No other way has ever been helpful for man; all other ways have made man more and more sexual. Sex has [...]

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Osho on Saraha tantra Vision, Saraha is the founder of Tantra vision

Osho on Saraha tantra

Osho : GAUTAM THE BUDDHA IS THE GREATEST MASTER who has ever walked on the earth. Christ is a great Master, so is Krishna, so is Mahavir, so is Mohammed, and many more – but Buddha still remains the greatest Master. Not that his achievement of Enlightenment is greater than anybody else’s – Enlightenment is [...]

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Osho on Mahamudra, Osho on Tilopa Songs of Mahamudra

Osho on Tilopa Mahamudra

Osho : Even in ordinary life you feel the futility of words. And if you don’t feel the futility of words, that shows that you have not been alive at all; that shows that you have lived very superficially. If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not [...]

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Osho on overcoming Sex and raising Kundalini

Osho on Sex and Kundalini

Question : How does one overcome the pull toward Sex so that the Kundalini Can go upward? Osho : Energy has been going downward through the sex center continuously for many births, so when any energy is created it will first try to move downward. That is why meditation sometimes will create more sexuality [...]

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Osho on Tantric love making and Ordinary Sex

Osho on Tantric love making

Question – How often should one Indulge in Sex in order to to help and not to Hinder the Meditation process? Osho – The question arises because we go on misunderstanding. Your sex act and the tantric sex act are basically different. Your sex act is to relieve; it is just like sneezing out a [...]

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Osho on Sex, Tantra and Bhahmacharya

Osho on Sex and Tantra

Osho – Tantra is science. Tantra says first know what the reality is, what man is, and don’t create values and don’t create ideals right now: first know what is. Do not think of the ”ought”; just think of the ”is.” And once the ”is” is known, then you change it. Then you have the [...]

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Osho on difference in Yoga and Tantra

Osho on Yoga and Tantra

Question – What is the difference between Traditional Yoga and Tantra? Are they the same? Osho – Tantra and yoga are basically different. They reach to the same goal; however, their paths are not only different, but contrary also. So this has to be understood very clearly. The yoga process is also methodology; yoga is [...]

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Osho on Tantra, Tantra is science, Tantra is not philosophy

Osho on Tantra Science

Osho – TANTRA means technique. So this treatise is a scientific one. Science is not concerned with why, science is concerned with how. That is the basic difference between philosophy and science. Philosophy asks, ”Why this existence?” Science asks, ”How this existence?” The moment you ask the question, how?, method, technique, become important. Theories become [...]

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Osho on Khajuraho Temples, Osho on Tantra temples of Khajuraho

Osho on Khajuraho Temples

Osho on Khajuraho Temples – Khajuraho or Konarak — if you meditate there, you will know what the Tantra masters were doing. They were creating in stone something that is felt in the ultimate orgasmic joy. It was the most difficult thing to do, to bring ecstasy into the stone. And if the stone can [...]

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Osho on Tantric Sex, Osho Insights on Tantra Sex

Osho on Tantric Sex

Osho on Tantric Sex : Tantric sex is not sex at all; it is meditation. Meditation has to spread all over your life. Whatsoever you do, do meditatively. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively. If you are making love, make love meditatively. Meditation has to become your life twenty-four hours a day; then only the transformation. Then [...]

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