The days of Tantra are coming: Tantra will explode in the masses

THE DANGER IS NOT IN TANTRA, IT IS IN YOU. And the appeal of yoga is because of you -- because of your ordinary mind, your sex-suppressed, sex-starved, sex-indulging mind. Because the ordinary mind is not healthy about sex, yoga has appeal.

    A BETTER HUMANITY, WITH A HEALTHY SEX -- NATURAL, NORMAL -- THE CASE WOULD BE DIFFERENT. We are not normal and natural. We are absolutely abnormal, unhealthy, really insane. But because everyone is like us, we never feel it.

    MADNESS IS SO NORMAL THAT NOT TO BE MAD MAY LOOK ABNORMAL. A Buddha is abnormal, a Jesus is abnormal amidst us -- they don't belong to us. This "normalcy" is a disease. This "normal" mind has created the appeal of yoga. If you take sex naturally -- with no philosophy around it, with no philosophy for or against -- if you take sex as you take your hands, your eyes -- if it is totally accepted as a natural thing -- then tantra will have appeal. And then only tantra can be useful for many.

    BUT THE DAYS OF TANTRA ARE COMING. Sooner or later tantra is to explode for the first time in the masses, because for the first time the time is ripe -- ripe to take sex naturally.

    IT IS POSSIBLE THAT EXPLOSION MAY COME FROM THE WEST -- because Freud, Jung, Reich, they have prepared the background. They don't know anything about tantra, but they have made the basic ground for tantra to evolve. Western psychology has come to a conclusion that THE BASIC HUMAN DISEASE IS SOMEWHERE AROUND SEX, the basic insanity of man is sex-oriented.

    So unless this sex orientation is dissolved, man cannot be natural, normal. MAN HAS GONE WRONG ONLY BECAUSE OF ATTITUDES ABOUT SEX. No attitude is needed, only then are you natural. What attitude have you about your eyes? Are they evil or are they divine? Are you for your eyes or against them? There is no attitude! That is why your eyes are normal.

    TAKE SOME ATTITUDE -- THINK THAT EYES ARE EVIL -- THEN SEEING WILL BECOME DIFFICULT. Then seeing will take the same problematic shape that sex has taken. Then you would like to see, you will desire and you will hanker to see. But when you see you will feel guilty.

    WHENEVER YOU SEE YOU WILL FEEL GUILTY THAT YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG, THAT YOU HAVE SINNED. You would like to kill your very instrument of seeing, you would like to destroy your eyes. And the more you want to destroy them, the more you will become eye-centered. Then you will start a very absurd activity: you would like more and more to see, and simultaneously you will feel more and more guilty. The same has happened with the sex center.

OSHO
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra
Vol 1, Ch #2: The Path of Yoga and the Path of Tantra
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