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Could you provide more information about sexual meditations? A friend is interested.
"I wrote a book once... Not by myself, it was compiled based on my speeches. The book is called "From Sex to Superconsciousness."
Since then, hundreds of my other books have been published, but it seems no one reads them. At least, not in India. Everyone only reads "From Sex to Superconsciousness." And everyone is against it, everyone criticizes it. Articles and entire books continue to appear. Mahatmas express angry reactions. And no one mentions the other books; they don't even pay attention to them. Do you understand? It's as if I only wrote one book.
People suffer from terrible torments. Sex has become a festering wound that needs to be healed.
In my opinion, sexual orgasm provides the first glimpse of meditation because the mind becomes silent, and even time stops. For a split second, both time and the mind disappear; the person is completely silent and immersed in bliss. I say this... This is my scientific approach to the issue because humans have had no other way to understand that bliss arises when there is no time and no thinking. Except for sex, there has been no other way to realize that there is a path leading beyond the mind, beyond time. Obviously, sex provided the first insights into meditation. But the whole world criticizes me for telling people this truth.
No one has ever offered other hypotheses about how people discovered meditation. It's not something you can just stumble upon. You can't find it on the roadside in a ditch. How did people come up with meditation?
The whole world is discussing my views, denouncing me in every way possible, and all because I talked about the journey from sex to superconsciousness. By the way, no one explains exactly what I'm guilty of. But my book, which has been translated into thirty-four languages and has been reprinted dozens of times, is read by everyone, without exception! Among my readers, there are the most Hindu, Jain, Christian, and Buddhist monks! Just a couple of months ago, a Jain conference was held in Pune, and my secretary told me, "You know, Jain monks came, and they all asked for only one book—'From Sex to Superconsciousness.' They hid it in the folds of their clothes and left silently, so no one would notice."
But people have only one way to understand that there is a door, a path beyond thinking—to eternal silence. And that path is sexual orgasm. It may last only a fraction of a second, but that moment turns into eternity because everything around freezes, and you forget all your worries and troubles.
The book "From Sex to Superconsciousness" is not about sex at all. It's about superconsciousness.
I said that a person can go "from sex to superconsciousness"—and everyone is thrilled! Everyone only hears "from sex"; no one hears the continuation: "to superconsciousness."
This applies to both those who are against me and those who are for me. Everyone reacts the same way! People are generally alike, and friends are often not much different from enemies. It's natural that my opponents misunderstood me. But my supporters also misinterpreted everything, and that's completely unnatural. Opponents can be forgiven, but how can you forgive such supporters?
Once, I said that sex is stupid, and I was immediately bombarded with angry questions. One of my sannyasins wrote in a letter: "You had the audacity to claim that sex is stupid!" She seemed terribly offended. And I can understand that: if you lead a certain lifestyle, you don't want that lifestyle to be called stupid. If it's stupid, and you're doing it, then you're stupid too! And that's offensive. But I am forced to speak the truth, even if it offends someone, because that's the only way to make it clear that there is much more in life, something higher, more magnificent, that brings more bliss than orgasm.
Sex is just the beginning, but certainly not the end. And if you choose such a beginning, there is nothing wrong with that. The mistake is when you cling only to this and don't want anything more.
Just sit in zazen for an hour after having sex, and you will understand what I'm talking about. You will understand why I said that sex is stupid. Make it a habit—an hour of zazen after sex—and see what happens. Are you the master of sex, or are you a slave to love? If you control it, sex is not stupid. If you are a slave to sex, it is stupid—if only because each sexual act reinforces this slavish dependence; you strengthen your own chains.
Only meditation will allow you to understand what I'm talking about. These questions cannot be resolved with logical proofs. Only your own meditation can resolve them. You must understand and realize it yourself.
I have never taught "free sex." I taught the sacredness of sex. I taught that sex should not be transferred from the realm of love to the realm of law and order. If you love a woman because she is your wife, and not just because, your relationship becomes prostitution—even if it's legalized, it's still prostitution. And I have always been against prostitution, whether it's legal or not. I believe in love. If two people love each other, let them live together as long as their love lasts. But if love disappears, they should thank each other and part peacefully.
I have never advocated for free sex. The whole problem lies in the idiocy of the Indian yellow press, which reduced all my philosophy to these two words. I wrote four hundred books, and only one of them deals with sex. The other three hundred ninety-nine say nothing about sex; I talked about it in only one book—and even that book is not about sex. It's about how to transform sexual energy into spiritual energy. Essentially, it's anti-sex!
But critics have turned everything upside down and then started accusing me of their own distorted interpretation! They, however, have never presented me in my true light. I never thought that India was such a stupid country! A country where the philosophy of Tantra was born, where Khajuraho and Konarak were built—this country cannot be so stupid as not to understand my words! Khajuraho is a living testament. Tantric cults are my evidence. By the way, it is the only country where Tantra existed. Nowhere else in the world has anyone tried to transform sexual energy into spiritual energy—and that's exactly what I was talking about. But journalists are not interested in reality; they are only interested in sensationalism.
Osho