Osho on Shortcoming in Tantra Teachings.
"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."
By: Osho
Original Source: http://www.messagefrommasters.com/Shiva-Shakti/tantra_teachings.htm
Question - Beloved Osho, Do You see shortcoming in the Teachings of Tantra that incline you to feel
Tantric methods are not suitable for us?
Osho
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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 POWERFULLY THAT IN THE
NAME OF TANTRA IT BECAME SIMPLY SEXUAL ORGY.
And MANY PEOPLE, WHO WERE SEXUALLY PERVERTED, SEXUALLY REPRESSED,
JOINED THE TANTRA SCHOOL. THESE WERE THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT ALL THEIR PERVERSIONS, ALL THEIR
REPRESSIONS.
They were not interested in
any transformation, they were interested only in getting rid of
their repressions; 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, it will always happen that in will be doing all
kinds of perversions.
Great Name.
And with a great name, they will not feel
that they are doing anything wrong; they will feel they are doing something religious, something
spiritual.
Why Tantra failed.
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 failed
due to just an exploitation of sex.
It was a wrong arrangement, so the whole thing became, in the name of
a great system, just an exploitation of sex.
That's what many of the therapists are doing. Just the other day I
saw Rajen's advertisement for a Tantra group -- with an obscene picture. It will attract people because this
is real pornography.
Why bother to go to see just pictures
printed on paper when you can see real people doing pornography? And Rajen has no understanding of meditation, has
never meditated.
And these people will feel good, relieved, because the society does
not allow them... In the group they will be allowed to do everything they want to do, so much repression will
be thrown out, and they will feel relieved and light and they will feel thankful that they have gone through a
great Tantra experience.
AND THERE HAS BEEN NO TANTRA EXPERIENCE -- IT WAS SIMPLY A SEXUAL
ORGY.
And within a few days, they will again collect repressions because
they cannot do it outside in the society.
So they become permanent
customers, chronic Tantricas.
And the so-called therapists enjoy the money that they bring. They
have nothing to lose, they simply allow freedom.
They start with all the great words that I have been
using.
-- "freedom," "expression," "no repression," "just be yourself,
and don't be worried what others are thinking," "do your own thing."
And those idiots start doing their own
thing!
First people should be introduced to meditation, and then they should
be introduced to Tantra methods. This is not Tantra. Tantra methods are totally different.
THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING TANTRA, THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
TANTRA.
The temple of Khajuraho has
beautiful statues in all sexual postures; all perversions of the human mind have been placed on the
outside of the temple. The average person believes
that to be Tantra. That is not Tantra it is what the world believes Tantric
sex is.
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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 corner you 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 just 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 the master
allow you inside the temple. Those six months are of immense meditation and of tremendous release, all
repressions gone: you are 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 the meditation, not
against it. That's how it
is transformed and takes higher
forms.
This is how we reach
ecstasy.
All these so-called therapists know nothing about Tantra; know
nothing of why it failed. But they are not interested in that, they are interested in exploiting repressed
people.
And the
repressed people are happy because after a seven or ten day Tantra session, they feel relieved; they think this
is some spiritual growth. But
WITHIN TWO OR THREE DAYS ALL THAT SPIRITUAL GROWTH WILL BE GONE, AND THEY ARE READY FOR ANOTHER
GROUP.
There are some people -- you can call them "groupie's" -- that move
from one group to another group to another group. Their whole life is just a movement from group to group.
Just like hippies... but you can call them "groupie's."
Source:
http://www.messagefrommasters.com/Shiva-Shakti/tantra_teachings.htm
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