What is the relationship between tantra and sexuality?
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"Tantra sees sexuality not as a vice to be condemned or a pleasure to be indulged in blindly, but as a sacred doorway to deeper awareness and spiritual awakening. Embrace it with love and consciousness, and let it transform you from instinct to transcendence."
According to Osho, tantra regards sexuality as a natural, powerful doorway: you neither condemn nor repress it, you enter it with awareness and love, passing through its depths to go beyond it into meditation and spiritual awakening. Repression breeds neurosis; indulgence without consciousness is blind. Tantra uses sex as transformative energy, a bridge from instinct to transcendence, not an end in itself.
Tantra says sex isn’t bad or the goal—it’s a door you walk through carefully to find a quieter, wiser place inside.
Why this matters practically
- Heals guilt and repression by meeting desire with awareness.
- Turns intimacy into meditation, deepening love and presence.
- Offers a path to transcend craving without denial or indulgence.
- Turns intimacy into meditation, deepening love and presence.
- Offers a path to transcend craving without denial or indulgence.
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