What is the relationship between gender and sexuality?
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"Gender is a physical manifestation, while sexuality is a mental construct; true transcendence reveals a consciousness that is beyond both."
According to Osho, gender belongs to the body, while sexuality is governed by mind-based centers; genitals are only extensions. When one fully lives and exhausts sexual desire, a silence arises: anti-sex, or beyond sex. Then the body may remain male or female, but your being is neither. Sexuality is a mental program; transcendence reveals a genderless consciousness—the buddha state.
Your body can be male or female, but sex happens in the mind; when you explore it fully and grow beyond it, you discover a peaceful you that isn’t boy or girl.
Why this matters practically
- Loosens rigid identity with gender roles and sexual labels.
- Encourages conscious, responsible exploration over repression, leading to maturity.
- Points toward meditation and freedom from compulsive desire.
- Encourages conscious, responsible exploration over repression, leading to maturity.
- Points toward meditation and freedom from compulsive desire.
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