It’s an invisible life-power that love and touch make stronger, and it can recharge people like a battery.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Maneesha's question: beloved Osho, wilhelm reich says, in his book, `listen, little man,' that he found that man reaches out with his life energy when he feels well and loving; that he retracts that energy when he is afraid. Reich says that he found that this life energy -- which he termed "orgone" -- is "found in the atmosphere," outside the body. He says he succeeded in seeing it and devised apparatus which magnified it. Is what he observed so?
Maneesha, Wilhelm Reich was one of the unique intelligences born in this century. What he has found has been known to the East as aura. You must have seen around the statues of Buddha or Mahavira or Krishna -- a round aura around the head. That round aura is a reality. What Wilhelm Reich said was authentically true, but the people to whom he said it were not the right people to understand it. They thought he was mad because he described life as an energy surrounding the body. It is exactly true. Life is an energy that surrounds your body. Not only your body, but flowers, trees... everything has its own aura. And that aura, that energy surrounding you shrinks and expands, in different situations. Any situation where your energy shrinks, should be thought bad, sick. And every situation where your energy expands, should be respected and loved. In…
Beloved Osho, the german psychologist, wilhelm reich, stumbled upon some inner secrets of bio-energy. He also started practicing these on his patients but he was declared anti-social, was imprisoned and pronounced mad. Osho, what is it that reich was working on and where did he go wrong. What was he missing?
I suspect he was forced to go into madness. It is very easy to drive anybody mad when all the powers are in your hands and the person is made absolutely helpless. When he became mad.... This is the world: when he was at the peak of his fame, there were friends, there were colleagues, there was a beautiful woman who loved him. But when he came out of jail, the woman divorced him, the friends disappeared, the colleagues made it clear to him that they didn't want any more connection with him because even to be connected with him created suspicion. It is sad that he died, but I will say he was forced to die. If you boycott a person in such a way that he becomes an island in the great ocean of humanity -- separate, isolated, cannot communicate with anybody, everybody thinks he is mad --…
Verse (Sanskrit): ओशो, मन की किन-किन स्थितियों के कारण यौन-ऊर्जा, सेक्स एनर्जी अधोगमित होती है, और मन की किन-किन स्थितियों के कारण यौन-ऊर्जा ऊर्ध्वगमित होती है? कृपया इस पर कुछ प्रकाश डालें। Transliteration: ośo, mana kī kina-kina sthitiyoṃ ke kāraṇa yauna-ūrjā, seksa enarjī adhogamita hotī hai, aura mana kī kina-kina sthitiyoṃ ke kāraṇa yauna-ūrjā ūrdhvagamita hotī hai? kṛpayā isa para kucha prakāśa ḍāleṃ| Translation: Osho, what states of mind cause sexual energy, sex energy, to descend, and what states of mind cause sexual energy to ascend? Please shed some light on this. So first, understand two words. One is biological energy, which is related to the living cells by which a person obtains a body. These cells, these living units, are parts of the body. The biological, the visible part, stands before the eyes—call it semen, call it sexual energy, give it any name you like.
Life can be viewed in two ways in all its layers. Life has two aspects -- one is material, and the other is spiritual. It is necessary to examine sex also from these two directions. One aspect of sex is biological which is linked with the body and its particles. The other is of energy, of soul which is linked with the mind by consciousness. So it is necessary to comprehend the two words first. The first is biological energy which is related to life cells which constitute man's body. These life-cells are a part of the body. This biological portion which we call semen or sex energy or call it by any name can be seen with our naked eyes. But there is another aspect which is linked with lt, and which can be called self energy or energy. We can call it sex energy or self energy.
Osho, you said recently that you loved wilhelm reich. I have studied and written about him for years. While your ideas -- sex equals energy, living in the now and god is life -- agree with his, you go far beyond him. In what way was he limited?
He lived in the bottle. The goose could not come out. And he became too attached to the bottle -- his ideology, his philosophy. And this constant fear of persecution, suspicion drove him mad. You say: ... YOUR IDEAS -- SEX EQUALS ENERGY, LIVING IN THE NOW, AND GOD IS LIFE -- AGREE WITH HIS... They only appear to agree. Living in the now, how can you feel persecuted? Persecution is always going to be tomorrow. Right at this moment how can you feel persecuted? It can happen only in the next moment. His whole life he was talking about living in the now, but it was only talk, mere talk; he never lived in the now. He was thinking of himself in the old foolish pattern, as being a prophet. This stupid Judaic idea of being a prophet has tortured many people in the West. Christians, Mohammedans, Jews --…