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Sex matters to us all. The Osho approach to sex begins with an understanding of how important love is in our lives, while at the same time acknowledges that the journey into love cannot exclude our innate biological energies. With this perspective, it becomes clear that the tendency for religions, and for society in general, to associate sex with sin and morality has been a great misfortune.
Sex Matters begins by deconstructing the layers of sexual repression that the condemnation of sex has inflicted on human. Throughout Sex Matters - in response to questions about everything from jealousy to premature ejaculation, the role of intimacy and the differences between men and women - Osho proposes a vision that embraces sex as a fundamental gift from nature. We learn how orgasm offers a glimpse of timelessness, thoughtlessness, and pure awareness -- biology's way of pointing toward the consciousness that helps us to understand ourselves.
Finally, we are presented with a clear choice: a repressed sexuality that leads to pornography, perversion, and a stunted humanity or a playful, respectful, and relaxed innocence that supports us in becoming fulfilled and whole, as nature intended.
- Sales Rank: #163431 in Books
- Published on: 2003-07-11
- Released on: 2003-07-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.26" h x .85" w x 5.54" l, .55 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
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"Sex is your only energy, it is life energy."
"Sex Matters rediscovers the human and rewards rather than punishes one for being in that state. It is a wondrous revelation that will give peace, confidence and courage all at the same time."
"[Sex Matters] links sexuality to transcendence, insisting that sex is important for both physical and mental well-being."
About the Author
Osho is one of the most provocative and inspiring spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. Known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world. He is the author of many books, including Love, Freedom, Aloneness; The Book of Secrets; and Innocence, Knowledge, and Wonder.
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63 of 67 people found the following review helpful.
An antidote to stagnant thinking....
By J. Al-hashimi
I was watching Oprah Winfrey the other day and she had this couple on and it was a man and a woman, married with children, but the guy was all dressed and made himself up to look like a woman so it looked like a pair of women. And they were going to stick it out, blah, blah... but in the two minutes I watched it the man who looked like a woman said: "Sex is between the legs and gender is in the head," which obviously was a rationalizing definition. Oprah nodded somberly, repeated the definition, and then she said, "I get it." My point here is that a lot of people say a lot of stupid things about sex and a lot of people go along with it.
The point is made throughout Osho's work that religion and culture is more to blame for violent sex and deviant attitudes about sex than pornographers by repression and shame. This book is about psychology and spirituality and the sexual experience. That is Osho's point; get rid of your conditioning; you have been conditioned by thousands of years of culture which has poisoned your perceptions. He also makes the point that love is rare, that most people don't love and they don't know they don't love.
He states that while most marriages are composed of ugliness, painted faces and everything dead inside, the point of marriage is a deep spiritual communion, a training ground for egolessness (149):"There are many things you can never develop alone. Even your own growth needs someone to respond-someone so intimate that you open yourself to him or her." Osho makes the point that a marriage which is a spiritual communion is vastly different than a marriage with simply a physical or psychological basis, that their offspring will be radically evolved humans, hopefully the future of mankind.
Well, Osho is all about the evolution of human potential and he may have something. He speaks of a future where people live religion and no longer talk about it, where the new man will not be a talker but will live life, a time of no longer "great men" but rather of a general lifting of the quality of humanity. He speaks a future where sex is nobody else's concern and is more like a game, a dance of two energies together, than a serious affair. Osho is remarkable, especially so when you consider that he was born in backwater India and died in 1990, he did an astounding job of identifying how to acheive consciousness and identifying evolutionary trends. His thesis is that the evolution of everything has to be for a reason, for refinement of humankind, a progression towards connection with their souls and producing less volume and higher quality human beings. Osho is anti-formal religion like Eckhart Tolle. This perspective is that religion is inside of us naturally and the external formalized dogmas and culture got it mostly wrong.
The goal is to detach from your ego, to let the ego wither and die from lack of attention. In order to do that, you must witness yourself, stand apart and know yourself and when you acheive the loss of your ego you will experience timelessness and superconsciousness. He says (132): "Sexuality is a simple biological phenomenon. It should not be given so much importance. Its only significance is that the energy can be transformed into higher planes; it can become more and more spiritual. And the way to make it more spiritual is to make it less serious."
The thrust of his argument is that sexual energy is the ONLY energy of life and we can use the sexual experience to open the gateway of our consciousness to our soul by meditation/being aware/witnessing/encountering the whole process during sex instead of just cycling the energy and acheiving nothing. He states that if you don't have sexual energy you don't have the energy to transform; lukewarm people have difficulty reaching enlightenment. Love (heart) will pull the energy upward. Meditation (head) will pull the love energy up. Osho cautions against doing dull things, being dull in conversation, but advocates full energy, passion as a way of life.
He challenges everything: don't fall in love (biological and invasive and blind), rise in love (spiritual and respectful and insightful). On page 206 he talkes about couples who have "risen in love" and their synchronicity, understanding without words, energies relating directly without words. Consciousness as the master, not biology; companions of each other, not masters of one another. He says to go on developing/discovering the love inside you because a loving heart will attract a loving heart.
He sees tantric sex as a way out of unconsciousness, along with meditation during your everyday life. But Osho's point is that the sexual experience is so charged with energy and potential consciousness that it is unique and can bring you to egolessness and timelessness. Ultimately, Osho states that sexual energy will turn away from physical sex and that bio-electrical energy will convert to great love and great compassion.
Osho makes the point that even medicine has gotten into the culture on the subject informing people that they are healthier with more frequent sex. So people are being led by common culture to think frequency is the goal. Osho takes the point that you should only do it when you are flowing at a higher level so that the experience adds to your totality, your consciousness, and not using sex for other goals or letting it become boring. Osho writes (page 265): "Wait for the right moment. There are a few spaces - they come; nobody can manage them. Sometimes they are there. They are just divine gifts. One day suddenly you feel you are flowing. You don't have any weight, feel like you are flying. Some day you feel that you would like to give everything you can to your woman; that is the right moment. Meditate, dance, sing, and let love happen amid dance, singing, meditation, prayer. Then it will have a different quality - the quality of the sacred... When love becomes sacred, it simply makes you so contented, so tremendously at ease and at home." Not for the sake of duty, not because there is nothing to do, not as a path to reconciliation or just to satisfy the person you are living with. Only out of joy. That's one message among many.
The book (and his others) are an argument for tantric sex and other ways to become conscious and superconscious. Tantric sex is not really about sex; it is meditation in everything you do all day and night, including sex. Now, back in the 70s these concepts were tossed around more with young adults than nowadays, but it was also held up to ridicule and misrepresentation by the middle-aged and older people who thought it was just a bunch of crass hippy stuff. While the lowest experience of sex is relief, like a sneeze, tantric sex is meditation during sex, which is a whole different experience. Energy is recycled and creative and takes the experience to a higher plane in which ego and time vanish. It is not just about making an experience memorable; it is about continuing to evolve your consciousness, and create new circuitry. In the 70s we were determined not to be embarrassed about sex, to deconstruct sexual conditioning, and some people were content with that goal. But there was more; there were people who were constructing notions of being careful with your sexuality but in a different way, sex as a luxury not a need, as part of a whole life-awareness to achieve higher consciousness. To be a witness, to increase your aliveness and to aspire to a higher level of consciousness with your sexualilty is very different than simply seeking multiple experiences with multiple partners. The goal of tantric sex is that only by remaining aware does past conditioning not enter the experience and a new circuit is created... circuitry into a higher consciousness that remains with you outside the sexual experience. The mind becomes empty, centered, and old ideas drop away. You and your partner can dissolve into the greater energy and drop the ego from the heart. If you don't work on transcending your ego you will end up old with "very strengthened deep-rooted ego," a 70-80 year old ego. In contrast, childhood is nostalgic because the child feels himself or herself part of the cosmic flow, pre-ego.
A few points as a lot of science has been done that would be taking into consideration:
1. Osho is for people not being shamed by their bodies or overstimulated by nudity, sexual experiementation for males and females alike, which is the direction things are going mainly due to birth control and condoms for protection against pregancy and disease. However, sexual experimentation with multiple partners for women has a biological drawback which is that oxytocin is excreted creating a bonding effect during the sexual experience. Data indicates that this can "wear out" and young women having multiple partners appear to reach a point where they cannot "fall in love" biologically even with their spouse and perhaps affect bonding with their children. Psychologically, the risk is that either sex could bond with the wrong person in casual experiementation.
2. Neurotheology is being questioned. Is it that when the brain stops mysteriously God happens or are we looking at a predictable neuron thing? Brain-mapping indicates that the poserior superior parietal lobe weaves sensory data into the feeling of self ends and the rest of the world begins. If that becomes inactive by deprvivation of sensory input, by inward concentration, the orientation area of the brain cannot find the border between self and the world. The brain has no choice but to perceive the brain to be endless, to be connected with everything - one with creation, exactly what mystics report as a result of prolonged meditation.
It seems to me, however, that there is a lot to say for not entrenching one's ego, that it is beneficial to work at dissolving that border between self and the world in order to stay flexible and sensitive to extrasensory perceptions, including intuition, to stay in the cosmic flow and open to ideas. It appears to me that the rigid egotist gets increasingly hard and narrow, self-centered and certain.
These kind of data came about after Osho's demise and I still think that he has a host of kind of brilliant ideas and insights which may move thought forward, not with absolute agreement, but with gratitude.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Mind-blowing!!!
By Cic626
Take your sex-life to the next level. A spiritual connection in sex makes an exponential difference. It is well-written, does not come off as preachy, or too "woo-woo." Truly mind-blowing... in more ways than one!
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Osho: From sex to superconsciousness
By Ashtar Command
Osho is the same person as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. I don't think Bhagwan needs a closer introduction. He was a quite notorious cult leader about thirty years ago - in Oregon, of all places. In contrast to most other cult leaders, Bhagwan managed to salvage *some* of his reputation by exposing the murderous machinations of his closest aides, even inviting the proper authorities to investigate. Later, Bhagwan returned to his native India, where he changed his name to the incomprehensible Osho, probably because the old name was too tainted. "Osho" is also the name inscribed on his tombstone. (He died in 1990.)
Although I can't really relate to his philosophy, it's nevertheless a pity that Osho screwed up and became a cult leader. In some strange kind of way, I like the man - or at least his public image. Osho never called himself a guru or claimed to be divine, and he was often deliberately frivolous or provocative. Please look him up on Youtube, if you don't know what I'm talking about! Osho's message sounds like a curious blend of very low church Hinduism, Western self-help techniques, Nietzsche, libertarianism and hedonism. He wanted people to combine the traits of Zorba with those of the Buddha. Would the world really be a better place if we would all be Neo-Sannyasins? No idea. But perhaps it would be more fun! If only Osho hadn't screwed up in Oregon...
"Sex Matters" is a book containing talks by Osho on the subject of sex. No dates are given, but as far as I understand, the talks in part I were held in India, already before Osho moved to the United States. The talks in section III seems to be more recent, perhaps from the Oregon period? Osho became controversial in deeply conservative and patriarchal India because of his outspoken attitude towards sex, and his constant criticism of mainline Hinduism, especially the ascetic holy men. Indeed, most of his followers have always been Westerners.
However, if you are looking for some kind of steaming exegesis of the Kama Sutra, you will be disappointed. In fact, most of "Sex Matters" deals with Osho's views on the relationship between spirituality, sexuality and celibacy. Interesting, to be sure, but hardly sexy. Osho believes that sex has to be transcended, so humans can reach a state he calls superconsciousness. However, the only way to transcend sex is to go through sex. Thus, sex shouldn't be repudiated or repressed. Indeed, Osho believes that by repressing sex, society has become sick to the bones. Why are humans constantly obsessed and preoccupied with sex? According to Osho, it's because we long for timelessness, egolessness and bliss. In sex, this is temporarily reached in orgasm. However, in meditation, we can experience a more perfect kind of bliss. Therefore, the sexual orgasm must be transformed into meditation and superconsciousness. Osho claims to know a meditation technique by which the orgasm can be prolongued for several hours. After this, the individual will no longer be interested in sex. He will become truly celibate the rest of his life. The ascetic "holy men" of India are hypocrites. They may be technically celibate, but in reality they are constantly preoccupied with sexual thoughts and desires. Only by releasing the sexual energies, can these be transformed into something higher.
To a critical outsider, Osho's advice seems contradictory. On the one hand, he has no problems with divorce, premarital sex, nudity, homosexuality or bisexuality. He wants people to be life affirming instead of life denying, and often comes close to sounding like a hedonist. (This is why his talks became controversial in India.) On the other hand, he wants sex to be spiritualized, turned into "real love", and hence turned off, with people essentially becoming asexual. It's not clear how these two traits can be combined. How do you combine "Zorba" with "Buddha"? Perhaps Osho counts on some kind of catharsis effect? If people indulge in sex, they will eventually loose interest in it. Or so Osho believes. In the third part of the book, it turns out that Osho isn't particularly interested in giving concrete advice about sexual problems. Indeed, he believes that Westerners are too obsessed with having orgasms! Just relax, experiment and go with the flow, is the rather anticlimactic advice. But then, who knows? It may just be working... More murky is Osho's ultimate goal: a society of supermen, apparently an idiosyncratic version of Nietzsche. (Some have accused Osho of incipient fascism.)
"Sex Matters" is a relatively easy read. If the book feels difficult, it's probably because it takes some time to get accustomed to Osho's strange philosophy. As such, Osho's talks aren't superintellectual or overly theoretical. They are often lightened up by funny anecdotes or frivolous jokes. (Including a joke about the Pope and a gay man!) If the book is the best introduction to Osho's worldwiew, I don't know, since I haven't read all his books. Has anyone? Personally, however, I found "Sex Matters" to be an interesting gate into the strange land of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh...
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