Osho Om Bodhisattva Commune/Research Institute2

	Love is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself... Love is overflowing joy. Love Is when you have seen who you are; then there is nothing left except to share your being with others. Love is when you have seen that you are not separate from existence. Love is when you have felt and organic, orgasmic unity with all that is.





	Love and Meditation are like two wings. A bird can not fly with one wing-- and for thousands of year man has tried to do exactly that. Either they have chosen love and ignored meditation or they have chosen meditation and rejected love... find energy in meditation and share it in love. Love will give you an appetite for meditation and meditation will give you a deep longing for love. And if one can move between these two easily one has learned the art of life.






	These temples of Khajuraho were no ordinary temples. They were a kind of therapy... a great experiment in transforming human energy towards higher levels. Tantra says: if you go on finding new ways everyday, your life will remain a thrill, an adventure. You will never be bored... Expression is life; repression is suicide. This the Tantra message: don't live a repressed life, otherwise you live not at all. Live a life of expression, creativity, joy.





	Tantra failed for two reasons. One was an inner reason-- that meditation was not made the central point. And second, tantra had no special methodology for the perverted and the repressed, so that first their repressions and perversions are settled and they become normal. And once they become normal, then they are introduced to meditation. Only after deep meditation should they be allowed in tantra experiments.





	Tantra means techniques for expanding your consciousness. Mantra means finding your inner sound, your inner rhythm, your inner vibration. Once you have found your mantra, it is of tremendous help: just one utterance of the mantra and you are in a totally different world.That becomes the key, the passage, because once uttering that mantra, you fall into your natural vibes. And the third is yantra. These statues are yantras. Yantra means a certain figure which can create a certain state in you.





	A temple is a situation.

...Osho suggests that if you have an affinity with it, play with it for three days, then relax, take it easy. If you continue to feel good about it, and you find it effective in making you more aware, try it for three months.

...Bliss is a by-product, you cannot grab it directly. It is so delicate a phenomenon that you have to approach it only indirectly. Do something else and it happens. You cannot do it directly... If you are concerned only with the result, then it will never happen.

...Tantra tells you nature is good, sex is good; trust it, flow into it. One who is interested in life and consciousness will automatically becomes interested in sex because sex is the source of life, of love. But tantra is not to help your indulgence, it is to transform it. So do not deceive yourself.

...Sansara and nirvana, the world and the liberated state of consciousness, are not two things, just two attitudes, just two choices. You can choose either. You can be in the world because of a certain attitude, and the same world becomes nirvana, the same world becomes absolute bliss, just by changing the attitude. You remain the same, everything remains the same; just a change of focus, a change of emphasis, a change of choice, is required.

...These techniques are so simple that right now, here and now, the thing is possible. But then there is no contact with your ego.

...All these techniques are for growing alertness. You are already the person you long to be, you are already where you want to reach.

...So the whole question is one of how to change your non-alert state of mind into an alert state of mind, how become more aware, how to get out of sleep and dreaming.

...These techniques are not techniques for samadhi; these are techniques to prepare you, and then samadhi happens. --Vigyan Bhairav Tantra

"Sex is a natural way of meditation; it is a gift of nature, to keep reminding you that this is possible. Mind, time, ego, all can disappear; if they can disappear for a single moment, then why not for ever? Sex is a natural window into God, but only a window. You need not remain confined behind it. You can jump out of the window and you can come into the open, in the sun, under the sky, But the window made it possible for you. Because sex helps you to know a few moments of egolessness, timelessness, mindlessness, it makes it possible that you can long for, desire a permanent state, an eternal state of orgasmic joy -- satchitanand."

Osho --'The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty # 10'

"But I am not saying that sex is not divine. It is the seed. Love is the tree, prayer is the flowering. Prayer arises out of sex energy. You have to be grateful towards it, you have to respect it. Sex should be respected because everything is going to happen out of it. Life has happened out of it; death is going to happen out of it; love, prayer and God are going to happen out of it. Sex carries the whole blueprint of your destiny. To me, sex is not just sex, sex is all."

Osho--'The Art of Dying, Chapter # 2'

Tantra says, approach the sex act as if you are entering a holy temple. That is why they have pictured the sex act on their holy temples. They have said, approach sex as if you are entering a holy temple. Thus, when you enter a holy temple sex must be there in order that the two become conjoined in your mind, associated. Then you can feel that the world and the divine are not two fighting elements, but one. They are not contradictory, they are just polar opposites helping each other. And they can exist only because of this polarity. If this polarity is lost, the whole world is lost. So see the deep oneness running through everything. Do not see only the polar opposites, see the inner running current which makes them one.

For tantra everything is holy. Remember this, for tantra EVERYTHING is holy; nothing is unholy. Look at it this way: for an irreligious person, everything is unholy; for so-called religious persons something is holy, something is unholy. For tantra, everything is holy.

Osho --'Vigyan Bhairav Tantra'

Chariot of Sun God

"These temples have, on the outer side, beautiful women, beautiful men, and all in love postures. Inside there are no love postures. Inside you will find the empty, not even a statue of God. The idea is that unless you pass through your sexuality with full awareness, in all its phases, in all its dimensions -- unless you come to a point when sex has no meaning for you... only then you enter the temple. Otherwise you are outside the temple, your interest is there."

--Osho