Steve, perhaps the zen teachers we have been discussing were exhibiting
their zenish 'no attitude' toward sex?
Anthony, Osho has an attitude toward Tantra - but it is quite the
opposite to yours!
--ED
> [Excerpt from] Osho on Zen Approach towards Sex
> Question - Osho, What is the Zen Approach towards Sex? The Zen people
seem to have a neuter gender, or asexual aura around them.
> Osho - Zen has no attitudes about sex, and that is the beauty of Zen.
To have an attitude means you are still obsessed this way or that.
Somebody is against sex -- he has an attitude; and somebody is for sex
-- he has an attitude. And for and against go together like two wheels
of a bullock cart. They are not enemies, they are friends, partners in
the same business. ...
> Zen has no attitude about sex. Why should one have any attitude about
sex? That's the beauty of it -- Zen is utterly natural. Do you have any
attitudes about drinking water? Do you have any attitudes about taking
food? Do you have any attitudes about going to sleep in the night? No
attitudes. ...
> ... Zen has no attitudes about sex. Zen is very simple, Zen is
innocent. Zen is childlike. It says there is no need to have any
attitudes. Why? Do you have any attitude about sneezing? -- to sneeze or
not, whether it is sin or virtue. You don't have any attitude. ...
> Tantra has an attitude about sex. The reason? -- it tries to redress
what the society has done. Tantra is medical. The society has repressed
sex; Tantra comes as a remedy to help you redress balance. You have
leaned too much to the left; Tantra comes and helps you to lean to the
right. And to redress the balance sometimes you have to lean too much to
the right, only then the balance is gained. ... Tantra is a remedy.
> ... The so-called religions say sex is sin and Tantra says sex is the
only sacred phenomenon. Tantra is a remedy. Zen is not a remedy. Zen is
the state when the illness has disappeared; and of course, with the
illness, the remedy too. Once you are cured of your illness you don't go
on carrying the prescription and the bottle and the medicine with you.
You throw it. It goes to the dustbin.
> Ordinary society is against sex; Tantra comes to help humanity, to
give sex back to humanity. And when the sex has been given back, then
arises Zen. Zen has no attitude. Zen is pure health.
Source - Osho Book "The Diamond Sutra"
