Book Introduction

The Tantra Experience

by Osho, Price : Rs. 350, Weight : 525 gms

Tantra will say understand sex, do not try to channel it, if you do not understand it, every effort id bound to be a failure, and harmful. So do not do anything. First understand it, and through understanding, the path will be revealed.

You are not to force your energies on that path. Through understanding you come to know the law, just like in science. What are you doing in science? You come to understand a law; a natural mystery is revealed. Once the natural mystery is revealed, you can use the energy creatively.

Without your knowing the inherent law, all efforts are doomed. So Tantra says understand the animal – because in the animal is hidden the potential for your future. Really, it can be said that in the animal the divine is hidden. The animal is your past, the divine is your future – but the future is hidden in your past, in seed form. Understand them. Your mind is not to be there mastering, it is not there to control them and fight with them; it is there to understand them.

Really, if you understand them, you are using your mind rightly. Understand sex, understand anger, and understand greed. Be alert; try to find out their ways – how they work, their functions are.

And be constantly aware of the very movement of these animal instincts within. If you can be conscious of these animal instincts, there will be no division; you will not have an unconscious mind. If you can move with these instincts deep within, you will have only a conscious mind; there will be no unconscious.

The unconscious is there because of repression. You have closed the major part of your being to consciousness because you are afraid. You cannot look at your own reality. You are so afraid that you have already moved out the house – you just live on the verandah. You never go in because the fear is there. If you come face-to-face with yourself, all your imagination, all your illusions about yourself will fall down.

You think yourself to be a saint, you think yourself to be a religious person, you think yourself to be this and that. If you face your reality, all these illusions will evaporate. And everyone has created an image of himself. That image is false, but we cling to the image and this clinging becomes the barrier toward moving within.

So the first thing is to accept the animal. It is there, and nothing is wrong about it. It is your past, and you cannot deny your past, you can only use it. If you are wise, you will use it and create a better future out of it. If you are foolish you will fight with it, and through fight the future will be destroyed. Fight with a seed, and you will destroy it. Use it, give it soil, help it, and protect it, so that the seed becomes a tree, an alive tree, and the future blossoms through it.

The animal is your seed. Do not fight with it. Tantra had no condemnation against it, simply love for it, because the whole future is hidden in it. Know it well, and then you can use it and you can thank it.

OSHO
The Book of Secrets

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