OSHO. Tantra aukščiausias suvokimas

In the book “Tantra the highest perception” are collected the spontaneous words of one of the most famous of the 20th century. talks about Tantra and the tantric path by the enlightened Master Osho . The conversations refer to the 11th century. in the Indian spiritual text Tilopa’s “Song of the Mahamudra.” In these talks, Osho explains many important meditation techniques that are just as useful and powerful today as they were when Tilopa first sang her song.

From the book:

Mahamudra is the experience of emptiness: you are simply not there. And when you are not there, who should suffer pain, suffering, who should be depressed and sad, who should feel joy and bliss? The Buddha says that if you experience bliss, you will fall prey to suffering again because you still are. But when you are absent, completely absent – then there is neither suffering nor bliss. And this is the essence of true bliss. There is no turning back. To reach nothingness is to reach everything.

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Only when two lovers touch each other like two voids – only then is fusion possible, because the walls become broken, there are no more boundaries. Energy flows freely in both directions because there are no obstacles left. Only in a moment of such deep love is it possible to experience an orgasm. When both lovers become non-personalities while making love, emptiness, orgasm occurs. Then their energy and their whole being loses its identity, they cease to be themselves, they fall into the abyss. But this happens only for a moment: after that they go back again and start holding on to themselves again. This is why people are afraid of love. Falling deep into love involves the fear of going crazy, the fear of dying of love, the fear of what might happen. An abyss opens, all existence opens up, you are suddenly there and you can fall. People become afraid of love, they settle for sex and call it love. Love is not sex. Sex can be a part of love, an integral part. But sex in itself is just a substitute for love. You try to avoid love through sex.

You imagine love, but you come nowhere near love. Sex is like borrowed knowledge, giving the illusion of knowing but not knowledge, the illusion of love but not love.

In love you do not exist, neither does the other: only then do you both suddenly disappear. The same thing happens in Mahamudra. Mahamudra is an all-encompassing spiritual orgasm, a fusion with all of existence. Therefore, in tantra – and Tilopa is a teacher of tantra – deep connection, the connection marked by ecstasy between two lovers is also called Mahamudra, and two lovers immersed in a deep state of ecstasy are depicted in tantric temples and tantric books. It became a symbol of orgasm.

About the book:

I will probably pay the greatest tribute to this book by simply saying that after reading it, I honestly felt – I don’t need any other book. The essence may be inexpressible. But all that can be said is said here in the comprehensive tantric vision of two enlightened masters, Osho and Tilopa. This extraordinary meeting gives the key to understanding, and opens the door to perception – the ability to accept even transcendence.