From Sex to Superconsciousness

“ Sex also exists in animals because sex is the source of life, but sexuality only exists in man.

“ Sex also exists in animals because sex is the source of life, but sexuality only exists in man. ” e.style.display='none');if(typeof getContentsSections==='function')setTimeout(getContentsSections,50)" /> Osho's most provocative claim. Animals have sex seasonally and move on. Humans are sexual around the clock — in thoughts, art, literature, advertising. Why? Because no other creature has been taught that sex is sinful. The result of millennia of religious condemnation hasn't been purity but perversion. Every nude magazine cover, every obscene novel, every sex-saturated film is evidence of a society tortured by what it was told to reject. Osho argues that the so-called saints and moral preachers are the real "advertising agents for obscenity." By making sex forbidden, they made it irresistibly fascinating — the way stolen fruit always tastes sweeter than what's bought at the bazaar. Our songs, poems, paintings, and temple figures all revolve around the axis of sex precisely because we've been at war with it for ten thousand years. TAKEAWAY 2

“ The more fully you accept sex with an open heart and mind, the freer you will be of it. ” e.style.display='none');if(typeof getContentsSections==='function')setTimeout(getContentsSections,50)" /> Coal and diamonds share identical elements — the only difference is transformation over time. Osho uses this as his central metaphor: sex energy and divine love are the same force at different stages. Despise coal and you'll never discover it can become a diamond. Despise sex and you block love's only source. Sex is what Osho calls the "Gangotri" — the Himalayan origin point — of love's river. Every act of devotion, creativity, and tenderness is a flowering of this primal energy. The hostility toward sex doesn't just fail; it actively destroys the possibility of love. Acceptance is the path to deliverance. The flower's fragrance is nothing but the foul smell of manure, risen upward through the plant and transformed. TAKEAWAY 3

“ …man had his first luminous glimpse of samadhi during the experience of intercourse. ” e.style.display='none');if(typeof getContentsSections==='function')setTimeout(getContentsSections,50)" /> Why does sex hold such power despite post-coital regret? Osho identifies two things that happen during orgasm: the ego temporarily dissolves, and time stops. For one instant, there is no "I" and no past or future — only pure present. These are precisely the states mystics describe in samadhi, the deepest meditation. This overlap is no accident. Ancient meditators observed what happened in orgasm — a mind emptied of thought — and asked: could that emptiness be achieved without the physical act? From this insight, yoga, meditation, and prayer were born. The ecstasy we chase through sex is actually the ecstasy of self-transcendence, briefly accessed through the…