Go deeply into lovemaking

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IF YOU CAN MOVE into lovemaking totally, the ego disappears, because at the

highest peak, at the highest climax of lovemaking, you are pure energy. The mind

cannot function. With such joy, with such an outburst of energy, the mind simply

stops. It is such an upsurge of energy that the mind is at a loss, it does not

know what to do now. It is perfectly capable of remaining in function in normal

situations, but when anything very new and very vital happens it stops. And sex

is the most vital thing.

 

If you can go deeply into lovemaking, the ego disappears. That is the beauty of

lovemaking, that it is another source of a glimpse of god -- just like deep

sleep but far more valuable, because in deep sleep you will be unconscious. In

lovemaking you will be conscious -- conscious yet without the mind.

 

Hence the great science of Tantra became possible. Patanjali and yoga worked on

the lines of deep sleep; they chose that path to transform deep sleep into a

conscious state so you know who you are, so you know what you are at the center.

Tantra chose lovemaking as a window towards god.

 

THE PATH OF YOGA is very long, because to transform unconscious sleep into

consciousness is very arduous; it may take many lives. And who knows, you may or

may not be able to persist for so long, persevere for so long, be patient for so

long. So the fate that has fallen on yoga is this, that the so-called yogis go

on only doing body postures. They never go deeper than that; that takes their

whole life. Of course they get better health, a longer life -- but that is not

the point! You can have better health by jogging, running, swimming; you can

have a longer life through medical care. That is not the point. The point was to

become conscious in deep sleep. And your so-called yogis go on teaching you how

to stand on your head and how to distort and contort your body. Yoga has become

a kind of circus -- meaningless. It has lost its real dimension.

 

I have the vision of reviving yoga again in its true flavor, in its true

dimension. And the goal is to become conscious while you are deeply asleep. That

is the essential thing in yoga, and if any yogi is teaching anything else it is

all useless.

 

BUT TANTRA HAS CHOSEN a far shorter way, the shortest, and far more pleasant

too! Lovemaking can open the window. All that is needed is to uproot the

conditionings that the priests have put into you. The priests put those

conditionings into you so that they could become mediators and agents between

you and god, so that your direct contact was cut. Naturally you would need

somebody else to connect you, and the priest would become powerful. And the

priest has been powerful down the ages.

 

Whosoever can put you in contact with power, real power, will become powerful.

God is real power, the source of all power. The priest remained down the ages so

powerful -- more powerful than kings. Now the scientist has taken the place of

the priest, because now he knows how to unlock the doors of the power hidden in

nature. The priest knew how to connect you with god, the scientist knows how to

connect you with nature. But the priest has to disconnect you first, so no

individual private line remains between you and god. He has spoiled your inner

sources, poisoned them. He became very powerful but the whole humanity became

lustless, loveless, full of guilt.

 

My people have to drop that guilt completely. While making love, think of

prayer, meditation, god. While making love, burn incense, chant, sing, dance.

Your bedroom should be a temple, a sacred place. And lovemaking should not be a

hurried thing. Go deeper into it; savor it as slowly and as gracefully as

possible. And you will be surprised. You have the key.

 

God has not sent you into the world without keys. But those keys have to be

used, you have to put them into the lock and turn them.

 

Osho, The Book of Wisdom