Diana Richardson - Tantric Sex for Men

twenty years. During the retreats there is no nudity, no partner swapping, and each couple arrives

committed to each other for the week. The atmosphere is respectful, supportive, and professional. We

sometimes share with couples how fortunate we feel to have the best work in the world. Actually, it

is pure pleasure and not work at all. We experience unlimited joy in seeing couples rise in love out of

stagnation right in front of our eyes, in a handful of days. This is not only one couple, but twenty-five

or more couples simultaneously. Everything proceeds easily, gently, naturally, and with virtually no

effort on our part.

Although sex has been practiced in certain ways for thousands of years, we don’t believe it has to

continue in the same way forever. Over the years we have come to recognize that changing the way

we make love changes and empowers our lives in loving, magical, mystical ways. However, this kind

of transformation happens only through direct experience, and not by simply thinking that it sounds

like a great idea. To gain access to insider knowledge, the experience has to be lived fully by the

individual on a cellular level. Transforming our basic sex energy into its higher vibration of love, as

described in the chapters ahead, raises the quality of love on personal, social, and cosmic levels of

consciousness.

During our time working in the field of sexuality some couples who have attended our retreats have

naturally separated and gone different ways. Our approach is not foolproof; rather, it depends on

individual awareness, curiosity, and an interest in change. To our great astonishment, over the years

we have witnessed a steady trickle of men returning to our retreats with a new lover. Actions are said

to speak louder than words, and the return of so many men is their living endorsement of the immense

value of changing the way one makes love. Once a man has been fortunate enough to have a taste of

his male potency flowing into and through a woman, and being received by her, he naturally hopes to

create similar experiences for himself in the future.

Sometimes women are more ready than men to change their sexual ways. If your woman is ready to

embark on an adventure into the unknown, follow her lead and let her take you to new horizons. Give

it a whirl; there is really nothing to lose. Quite possibly you will gain more love and insight than you

can imagine.

Humans have progressed in countless amazing ways, yet sex, the dimension closest to home,

remains unexplored territory. Perhaps now is the time to move beyond the familiar and take a step in

human sexual evolution.

To those men and women who have already taken this step and have written to us about their

profound personal experiences, we extend our deep gratitude to you for allowing us to use your

words in encouraging others to explore their sexual potential.

Our spiritual master, Osho, formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, is the source of the tantric

inspiration we now pass on to you. Osho’s interpretation of the ancient Tantra scriptures addresses

the search for harmony, wholeness, and love that is at the core of all religious and spiritual traditions,

and that is also an integral aspect of the tantric relationship between two people. It is our privilege to

include some excerpts of Osho’s tantric inspiration throughout this book. His words, appearing in text

form, were initially delivered as spontaneous oral discourses and later published in book form. The

quotes included here are those that inspired us on our journey, and in no way represent the full range

and extraordinary diversity of Osho’s spiritual insight into the human condition.

We are both vitally aware that our lives have been shaped by Osho in ways that could not have

been imagined at the outset, and for this honor we extend to him our eternal love and gratitude.

Osho Speaks on Sex

Osho’s Spiritual Insight into the Human Condition

I have almost four hundred books in my name. Out of four hundred books there is only one book on sex, and that too

is not really on sex; it is basically on how to transcend sex, how to bring the energy of sex to a sublimated state,

because it is our basic energy. It can produce life. . . . It is only man who has the privilege to change the character

and the quality of sexual energy. The name of the book is From Sex to Superconsciousness —but nobody talks

about superconsciousness. The book is about superconsciousness; sex is only to be the beginning, where everybody

is.

There are methods that can start the energy moving upwards, and in the East, for at least ten thousand years,

there has developed a special science, Tantra. There is no parallel in the West of such a science. For ten thousand

years people have experimented with how sexual energy can become your spirituality, how your sexuality can

become your spirituality. It is proved beyond doubt—thousands of people have gone through the transformation.

Tantra seems to be the science that is, sooner or later, going to be accepted in the whole world, because people are

suffering from all kinds of perversions. That’s why they go on talking about sex as if that is my work, as if twenty-

four hours a day I am talking about sex. Their repressed sexuality is the problem. My whole effort has been how to

make your sex a natural, accepted phenomenon, so there is no repression—and then you don’t need any

pornography; so that there is no repression—and then you don’t dream of sex. Then the energy can be transformed.

There are valid methods available through which the same energy that brings life to the world can bring a new

life to you. That was the whole theme of the book. But nobody bothered about the theme, nobody bothered about

why I have spoken on it. Just the word sex was in the title, and that was enough.

The book is not for sex; it is the only book in the whole existence against sex, but strange. . . . The book says that

there is a way to go beyond sex, you can transcend sex—that’s the meaning of “from sex to superconsciousness.”

You are at the stage of sex while you should be at the stage of superconsciousness. And the route is simple: sex just

has to be part of your religious life, it has to be something sacred. Sex has to be something not obscene, not

pornographic, not condemned, not repressed but immensely respected, because we are born out of it. It is our very

life source. And to condemn the life source is to condemn everything. Sex has to be raised higher and higher to its

ultimate peak. And that ultimate peak is samadhi, superconsciousness.

OSHO, TRANSCRIBED TEACHINGS,

SEX MATTERS: FROM SEX TO SUPERCONSCIOUSNESS

Tantric Inspiration

And about sex also people are very, very worried. That very worry and that very effort to do something is the

problem. Sex happens; it is not a thing that you have to do. So you have to learn the eastern attitude toward sex, the

Tantra attitude. The Tantra attitude is that you be loving to a person. There is no need to plan, there is no need to

rehearse in the mind. There is no need to do anything in particular: just be loving and available. Go on playing with

each other’s energy. And when you start making love there is no need to make it great. Otherwise you will be

pretending and so will the other person. He will pretend that he is a great lover and you will pretend that you are a