Sex Matters by Osho
Provacative And Convicting
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 -- biologys 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.
Personal Review: Sex Matters by Osho
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
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