Tantra Quotes

“Energy can have two dimensions. One is motivated, going somewhere, a goal somewhere, this moment is only a means and the goal is going to be the dimension of activity, goal oriented--then everything is a means, somehow it has to be done and you have to reach the goal, then you will relax. But for this type of energy the goal never comes because this type of energy goes on changing every present moment into a means for something else, into the future. The goal always remains on the horizon. You go on running, but the distance remains the same.

No, there is another dimension of energy: that dimension is unmotivated celebration. The goal is here, now; the goal is not somewhere else. In fact, you are the goal. In fact there is no other fulfillment than that of this moment--consider the lilies. When you are the goal and when the goal is not in the future, when there is nothing to be achieved, rather you are just celebrating it, then you have already achieved it, it is there. This is relaxation, unmotivated energy.”
― Osho Rajneesh, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding - Discourses on the Tantric Way of Tilopa's Song of Mahamudra

“happens to people. Tilopa was joking; he was saying that if you try to stop a thought you cannot. On the contrary, the very effort to stop it gives it energy; the very effort to avoid it becomes attention. So, whenever you want to avoid something you are paying too much attention to it. If you want not to think a thought, you are already thinking about it. Remember”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“Consciousness needs freedom. Be loose; remember this word as deeply as possible. Let it penetrate you. Be loose – so in every situation you can flow easily, water-like, as when water is poured into a glass, it takes the shape of the glass. It doesn’t resist, it doesn’t say, “This is not my form.” If the water is poured into a jar, into a jug, it takes the shape of that. It has no resistance; it is loose. Remain loose like water.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“Life is wild. Love is wild. And existence is absolutely wild.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“There are these three approaches, three dimensions, by which one reaches towards reality. Science cannot go beyond the object, because the very approach makes a limitation. Science cannot go beyond the outer, because only with the outer, experiments are possible. Philosophy, logic, cannot go beyond the subjective, because it is a mind-effort, you work it out in your mind. You cannot dissolve the mind; you cannot go beyond it. Science is objective; logic, philosophy, is subjective. Religion goes beyond, poetry goes beyond: it is a golden bridge. It bridges the object with the subject. But then everything becomes chaos – of course, very creative; in fact, there is no creativity if there is no chaos. But everything becomes indiscriminate; divisions disappear. I would like to say it in this way. Science is a day approach. In the full noon, everything is clear: distinct boundaries, and you can see the other well. Logic is a night approach: groping in the dark only with the mind, without any experimental support, just thinking. Poetry and religion are twilight approaches, just in the middle. The day is no longer there, the brightness of the noon has gone; things are not so distinct, clear. The night has not yet come; the darkness has not enveloped all. Darkness and day meet, there is a soft grayness, neither white nor black, boundaries meeting and merging, everything indiscriminate, everything is everything else. This is the metaphorical approach. That’s why poetry talks in metaphors – and religion is the ultimate poetry; religion talks in metaphors. Remember, those metaphors are not to be taken literally; otherwise you will miss the point. When I say the inner light, don’t think in terms of literal understanding, no. When I say, “The inner is like light,” it is a metaphor. Something is indicated, but not demarked, not defined, something of the nature of light, not exactly light; it is a metaphor. And this becomes a problem because religion talks in metaphors; it cannot talk otherwise, there is no other way. If I have been to another world and I have seen flowers which don’t exist on this earth, and I come to you and talk about those flowers, what will I do? I will have to be metaphorical. I will say, “Like roses,” but they are not roses; otherwise why say like roses, simply say roses. But they are not roses; they have a different quality to them.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“It is said that if just a drop of water is missing, the whole of existence will thirst. You pluck a flower in the garden, and you have plucked something out of the whole of existence. You harm a flower, and you have harmed millions of stars, because everything is interrelated. The whole exists as a whole, as an organic whole. The whole exists not as a mechanical thing – everything is related to everything else.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything. It has nothing like no in its vocabulary; there is no negation. It never says no to anything, because with no the fight starts, with no you become the ego. The moment you say no to anything, you have become the ego already; a conflict has come in, now you are at war. Tantra loves, and loves unconditionally. It never says no to anything whatsoever, because everything is part of the whole, and everything has its own place in the whole, and the whole cannot exist without anything missing from it.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“Mulla Nasruddin worked his whole life in politics and went to the highest post possible. Then I asked him, “What have you attained?” He said, “To be frank, I’m the greatest ladder climber in the world. That is my achievement: the greatest ladder climber.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“Remember two words: one is action; another is activity. Action is not activity; activity is not action. Their natures are diametrically opposite. Action is when the situation demands it, you act, you respond. Activity is when the situation doesn’t matter, it is not a response; you are so restless within, that the situation is just an excuse to be active. When action comes out of a silent mind, it is the most beautiful thing in the world. When activity comes out of a restless mind, it is the ugliest. Action is when it has relevance; activity is irrelevant. Action is moment-to-moment, spontaneous; activity is loaded with the past. It is not a response to the present moment; rather it is pouring your restlessness, which you have been carrying from the past, into the present. Action is creative. Activity is very, very destructive; it destroys you, it destroys others.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“You may have been wandering in darkness for millions of lives, but it cannot destroy your inner light because darkness cannot be aggressive. It is not. Something which is not, how can it be aggressive? Darkness cannot destroy light – how can darkness destroy light? Darkness cannot destroy even a small flame, darkness cannot jump on it, cannot be in conflict with it. How can darkness destroy a flame? How can darkness shroud a flame? It is impossible, it has never happened because it cannot happen.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“Don’t discipline yourself too much; otherwise your very discipline will become the bondage.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“हम केंद्र और परिधि में विभाजित है। शरीर परिधि है। हम शरीर को, परिधि को जानते है। लेकिन हम यह नहीं जानते कि कहां केंद्र है। जब बहिर्श्‍वास अंत:श्‍वास में विलीन होती है। जब वे एक हो जाती है। जब तुम यह नहीं कह सकते कि यह अंत:श्वास है कि बहिर्श्‍वास, जब यह बताना कठिन हो कि श्‍वास भीतर जा रही है कि बाहर जा रही है। जब श्‍वास भी तर प्रवेश कि बाहर की तरफ मुड़ने लगती है, तभी विलय का क्षण है। तब श्‍वास जाती है और न भीतर आती है। श्‍वास गतिहीन है। जब वह बहार जाती है, गतिमान है, जब वह भीतर आती है, गतिमान है। और जब वह दोनों में कुछ भी नहीं करती है। तब वह मौन है, अचल है। और तब तुम केंद्र के निकट हो। आने वाली और जाने वाली श्‍वासों का यह विलय विंदु तुम्‍हारा केंद्र है।”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

“Shiva'nın yolunda artık biçimi sevmezsin;tüm varoluşu sevmeye başlarsın.Tüm varoluş Sen olur;tüm varoluşa yönelirsin.Sahip olma isteği bırakılır,kıskançlık bırakılırnefret bırakılır;negatif olan tüm duygular bırakılır.Duygu giderek saflaşır ,ta ki yalnızca saf sevginin kaldığı an gelene kadar.O saf sevgi anında ,sen "Sen"e karışırsın ve "Sen" sana karışır.Sen de kaybolursun ,ama sen iki sıfır gibi değil,sevglinin sevilende kaybolması ve sevilenin sevgilide kaybolması gibi kaybolursun.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding - Discourses on the Tantric Way of Tilopa's Song of Mahamudra

“Ama Buddha der ki:"Başkalarının hatırı için ,merhamet için ,kendinde öyle bir merhamet duygusu yarat ki biraz daha uzun kalıp insanlara yardım edebilesin.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding - Discourses on the Tantric Way of Tilopa's Song of Mahamudra

“Freud eşi ve çocuğuyla bir parka gider ve güzel bir bahar akşamında yürümeye başlarlar.Çift çocuğu kendi haline bırakır ve sonra parkın kapanma saati gelir.Freud'un karısı sorar:
"Çocuğumuz nerede ?Kayboldu!"Ve burası büyük bir parktır.
Freud şöyle der:"Bana tek bir şey söyle :Onun herhangi bir yere gitmesini yasakladın mı?"
"Evet,"der kadın,"havuza yaklaşmamasını söyledim."
"O zaman oraya gidelim,"der Freud.
"Yanılmıyorsam havuzda olacaktır."Ve çocuğu orada bulurlar.
Karısı şaşkına döner."Nereden bildin?" diye sorar.
"Bu basit bir psikolojidir,"der Freud."Her ebeveyn bilmelidir.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding - Discourses on the Tantric Way of Tilopa's Song of Mahamudra

“1. Тантра утверждает, что вы уже совершенны. Не нужно пытаться его достигнуть, нужно реализовать то, что есть.
2. Каждый оттенок жизни необходим, чтобы отведать её вкус. Даже потеря верного пути исполнена смысла.
3. "Если жизнь ничем не обогатит, вы будете простаком. В вас не будет соли. Вы питательны, но без специй. Вы будете очень простым, хорошим, но в вашей доброте не будет сложной гармонии. Вы - отдельная нота, а не миллионы нот, превратившихся в мелодию, прямая линия без искривлений и углов. Но именно кривые и углы придают красоту, они делают жизнь более загадочной, глубокой. Без них вы будете мелководны в своей святости, в вас не будет никакой глубины."
4. Этот мир мимолётен. ... Бодрствуете или спите, вы живёте в мире собственных снов. Запомните, нет единого мира. Существует столько же миров, сколько и людей, каждый живёт в своём мире. Иногда наши миры встречаются и сталкиваются, иногда сливаются, но мы по-прежнему заключены в них.
5. Будь свободным и естественным, осознавая, наблюдая, что происходит. Тантра - путь любви, а любить, значит "сдаться". Борьба укрепляет эго, это не тот путь. Нужно расслабиться и быть спокойным. Не торопитесь, существование ведёт вас по своему желанию. Вам не нужно бороться с потоком, следуйте ему.
6. Существование - это эволюция: движение не от совершенства к идеалу, но от одной его степени к другой.
7. Ничто не должно практиковаться, потому что практика создаёт привычки. Прекрасное происходит спонтанно.
8. Живите спонтанно.
9. Не делайте ничего специально и не тревожьтесь.
10. Будьте свободным и естественным, будьте самим собой, позвольте всему происходить.
11. Выучите правила, чтобы потом их забыть. ... Правилам нужно следовать, но правила - это ещё не жизнь. ... Не слушайте никого, оставайся самим собой. Если вы продолжаете слушать всех подряд каждый будет так или иначе принуждать вас с чему-то. Вы никогда не достигните своего внутреннего центра. ... Слушайте свой внутренний голос, почувствуйте его и живите с этим ощущением.
12. Жизнь - это абсолютная свобода и гибкость.”
― Osho, Tantra: The Supreme Understanding - Discourses on the Tantric Way of Tilopa's Song of Mahamudra