Osho Quotes on Tantra
Authentic excerpts and distilled wisdom curated from original discourses.
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Moral laws can provide security, but they often deaden your sensitivity; true transformation arises from conscious presence, not from borrowed habits.
Shiva and Saraha offer different paths to the same truth; one through the heart's devotion and the other through the mind's awareness, yet both dissolve the ego in the embrace of enlightenment.
Tao is the art of spontaneity, while Tantra is the science of transformation; to merge them is to lose the delicate essence of both. Embrace sexuality not as a technique, but as a natural flow of love and life.
The beloved is not a remedy for your emptiness but a sacred mirror that reflects your wholeness, allowing love and freedom to become the two wings of your inner journey.
True tantra transcends the pendulum of repression and indulgence, inviting us to embrace love and sex with awareness rather than obsession.
Tantra is the soul-to-soul union where every experience becomes a doorway, allowing the Imperishable to recognize itself in all, embracing life in its totality.
Tantra honors the body as the only undeniable reality, for it is through the acceptance of our embodiment that we can transcend belief and experience the deathless.
Sex can become meditation when lived with total awareness, but ultimately, meditation is the enduring path that transcends all obsessions.
Tantra is not indulgence; it is the path to transcend it, inviting total awareness to transform the energy of sexuality into freedom. Embrace the middle ground of understanding, where from the mud of desire, the lotus of liberation blossoms.
Transcendence comes not by fighting against our nature, but by befriending it and transforming our sexual energy into a path of meditation.
True Tantra transcends the physical; it is the sacred dance of polarities within, where the union of opposites births ecstasy and completeness.
Embrace your fear with total awareness, for in acceptance lies the key to dissolve it; denial only strengthens what you wish to escape.
The source of tension lies not in modernity, but in the restless mind; true transformation begins within, for when consciousness shifts, the grip of the outer world loosens.
The fear of paths like Tantra and the Left-hand Path arises from a society that venerates logic and control, while dismissing the ecstatic, non-utilitarian celebration of life that these traditions embody.
Fear of names like Tantra and Aghorpanth arises from their challenge to society's obsession with logic and control; through understanding and practice, we can unlock a profound joy and spirituality that transcends mere utility.
Tantra is the art of being totally present, where the dream of separation dissolves and the oneness with existence is revealed.
Without deep meditation, Tantra's methods become a playground for the repressed, losing their spiritual essence and degenerating into mere indulgence.
Purity in tantra is not about moral judgments, but the end of inner division; it is the innocence of a child combined with the awareness of a sage, living in undifferentiated wholeness beyond good and bad.
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.
Yoga is the warrior's path of conscious suppression, while tantra is the path of radical acceptance, transforming desires into a dance of alchemical growth.
In a world that fears the sacredness of sexuality, the true teachings of Tantra must be whispered, passed from heart to heart, to preserve their essence against the storm of repression.
Embrace life with total involvement, but let the awareness of death guide you beyond both, into the eternal essence that transcends birth and death.
Tantra is the art of surrendering the ego to existence, allowing life to flow through you effortlessly, transforming anguish into spontaneous freedom.