What is the difference between suppression and transcendence in the context of sex?
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"Transcendence is not about fighting against desire, but about embracing it with awareness and love, transforming its energy into creativity and silence."
According to Osho, suppression fights sex, drives it into the unconscious, breeds guilt, perversion and split personalities. Transcendence comes through awareness, acceptance and loving, meditative understanding; by living sex consciously and totally, its energy transforms into love, creativity and silence, and desire naturally subsides. You go beyond, not against, it; repression is violence, transcendence is alchemy.
Don’t push sexual feelings down; see and live them with awareness so they naturally transform and quieten.
Why this matters practically
- Reduces guilt and anxiety; heals inner conflict.
- Transforms sexual energy into love, creativity, and calm.
- Encourages honest, compassionate relationships instead of hypocrisy.
- Transforms sexual energy into love, creativity, and calm.
- Encourages honest, compassionate relationships instead of hypocrisy.
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