Orgasm

Beloved master, I have heard you say that ninety-eight percent of the women of the east have not known orgasm. Why is it they look so graceful and not frustrated like the women in the west?

In no animal does the will to death exist. In the wild, no animal commits suicide. But strangely, in a zoo it has been found that animals commit suicide. And if Sigmund Freud had been studying only zoo animals, he would have concluded that there is a will to death, just as there is a will to life. But the zoo animals are not real animals; and a marriage makes everybody a zoo animal -- confined, chained in a thousand and one subtle ways. Sigmund Freud had no idea of wild animals, or wild human beings. I want human beings to have something of the wild in them. That is my rebel. He is not going to be part of a zoo, he is going to remain natural. And he is not going to go against life, he is going to flow with life. If man and woman can come…

Beloved Osho, what is orgasm in reference to meditation and higher levels of consciousness? Isn't feeling orgasmic in a deep state of meditation totally nonsexual?

The experience of orgasm itself is always nonsexual. Even though you have achieved it through sex, it itself has no sexuality in it. You can reach to orgasm through sex. It is a merger of the negative and the positive polarities -- such a deep merger that the man is no longer man, the woman is no longer woman. They are not two; there is only one energy surrounding them both. They have melted into that energy. It may be for a moment -- that does not matter -- but the experience itself has nothing to do with sex. The first orgasm is bound to be attained through sex. And my own understanding is that meditation has grown out of the experience of orgasm, because the original founders -- particularly Shiva who, in his VIGYAN BHAIRVA TANTRA, has written, just like a scientific formula, about one hundred and twelve meditations;…

Beloved Osho, doesn't your recurrent reference to the word "orgasm" continue to propagate the image of the "sex guru"?

For example, we know that no impotent person has ever been enlightened. No impotent person has ever been a prophet or a messiah. No impotent person has ever been a genius in any field -- science, music, art, dance. In the whole history of man, not a single impotent person has been able to contribute anything. It seems that all creativity consists of your sexual energy. And if a person doesn't have sexual energy, perhaps he will become absolutely dull, lusterless; his eyes will lose shine. He will lose interest in everything; he may not live long. And there is no need... because sex is the energy that has to be used as a ladder for your higher growth. I am not the sex guru. I am the anti-sex guru, if anything. The sex guru you can find in the Vatican. His perversion is not to touch women but to…

Osho, why are you called "the sex guru" in the west?

Why so much emphasis? People are obsessed particularly the religious people are obsessed. This label of "sex guru" comes from religious people. "Were you shocked by the porno film we saw?" a friend asked the Polack Pope. The Pope said, "I was even more shocked the second time I saw it!" The way people have been brought up for centuries is life-negative. I affirm life with all that it contains. That does not mean that I don't want you to change -- in fact, that is the only way to change. First you have to accept where you are, what you are. First you have to explore your reality, and then only you can find ways to go beyond it. You have to explore into all the possibilities of your existence. And sex is one of the most important phenomena, in fact the most important phenomenon of your life. But…