What is tantric sex? - OSHO

What is tantric sex? After monkey sex and after love-bliss sex, before the highest cosmic and religious sex in which no partner is needed, in which the cosmos is the partner, isn’t there tantric sex in which two partners are involved, a sex act that is a meditation based on certain techniques?

OSHO: It is good that after meditating on death you will be meditating on Tantra and tantric sex because sex is also a small death. And because of that small death in sex there is so much joy released in you. For a single moment you disappear and that moment is the climax, the orgasm. In that single moment you don’t know who you are. In that single moment you are pure energy vibrating, pulsating, with no center to it, with no ego in it.

In that single moment of orgasmic space you lose all boundaries, separation. You become vast, huge. You are no more separate from the other. That’s why there is so much joy, although the moment is very small and once it is gone you feel very frustrated because it has been so short, it was so fleeting. You start hankering again. And each time that moment comes you reach to a pinnacle and then you fall into a deep darkness, into the abyss.

So sex brings you joy and sex brings you great misery too. It takes you to sunlit peaks and then drops you into the darkest valleys. After each sex act one feels frustrated. Something was happening, happening, and it happened.and you could not even catch hold of it and it was gone. So sex remains the greatest fascination and the greatest frustration.

Because of these two things in the act of sex there are two types of people. Those who become too fascinated with the fascination, addicted to sex; they are the people who go on indulging in all kinds of sexualities, and their whole life is nothing but a search for more sex, better sex. And the other, who become addicted to the frustration of sex; they renounce the world, the woman, the man; they escape to the Himalayas or into the monasteries. But both have reacted to sex. Your worldly and your otherworldly, they are not different - they are both sexual, they have chosen one part of the sex act; they have chosen opposite parts, but they have chosen out of the sex act.

That’s why your so-called religions are so much against sex - they have chosen the frustration part. The indulgent and the renunciate are two aspects of the same coin. They are not different people, they are the same people, and both have chosen out of sex.

Tantra is a totally different attitude. It says: There is joy in sex and there is frustration in sex because the moment of orgasm is very small. That moment can become very deep, that moment can remain there for hours. That moment, once you know the art of remaining in it, can surround you twenty-four hours. Tantra transforms sex. Tantra is the true religion. It does not choose between the fascination and the frustration, it transcends both; it uses sex as a key. And it is a key - because all life comes through it, all flowers bloom through it and all birds sing through it. All that you see around you, the green and the red and the gold, all comes through sex and is sex energy. All the poetry and all the songs and all the music are rooted in sex energy. All art, all creativity, is nothing but an expression of sex.

This Very Body the Buddha