TANTRA SAYS THAT THE WORLD IS ALREADY THE DIVINE, but you are blind. So whatsoever you know in your blindness is to be called the world, and whatsoever is hidden because of your blindness is the divine. So this is one of the basic tenets -- that this sansar is the moksha, this very world is divine, this very world is the ultimate. THE IMMEDIATE AND THE ULTIMATE ARE NOT TWO, BUT ONE. The here and there are not two, but one.
Because of this insistence, many things become possible for tantra. One: TANTRA CAN ACCEPT EVERYTHING, and a deep acceptance relaxes you completely; nothing else can relax you. A deep acceptance... If there is no division between this world and that, if the transcendental is imminent here and now, if matter is just the body of the divine, THEN NOTHING IS DENIED, NOTHING IS CONDEMNED and you need not be tense.
Even if it may take ages for you to come to realize the divine, THERE IS NO HURRY FOR TANTRA. It is already there, and time is not lacking. It is eternally here; whenever you will open your eyes, you will get it. And whatsoever you are already getting is the hidden divine.
SO THE CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE OF CONDEMNATION, OF SIN, or of other such attitudes of religions, IS TOTALLY ALIEN TO TANTRA -- and absurd. Because if you condemn something, you also become divided inwardly; you cannot divide things only outwardly. If you divide, you also will be divided in parallel. If you say that this world is wrong, then your body will become wrong; because your body is part of this world.
IF YOU SAY THAT THIS WORLD IS SOMETHING WHICH IS A HINDRANCE TO REACHING THE ULTIMATE, then your whole life will be condemned and you will feel guilty. Then you cannot enjoy, then you cannot live, then you cannot laugh. Then seriousness will become your face. You can be only serious; you cannot be non-serious, you cannot be playful.
THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ALL THE MONKS ALL OVER THE WORLD. They become dead, serious. And through seriousness they become dead, because they cannot accept life as it is. They deny it; and they feel that unless they deny, they cannot reach the other world.
So the other world becomes the ideal, the future, the desire, the ambition; and this world becomes a sin. Then one feels guilty within. AND ANY RELIGION THAT MAKES YOU GUILTY, MAKES YOU NEUROTIC. It drives you crazy!
In this sense, TANTRA IS THE ONLY HEALTHY RELIGION. And whenever any religion becomes healthy, it becomes tantric. So every religion has two aspects. One is the outer aspect: the church, the organization, the publicized, the public face, the exoteric. This aspect is always life-denying. And the other aspect is the inner core. Every religion has that too: the esoteric. It is always tantric -- the totally accepting.
UNLESS YOU ACCEPT THE WORLD TOTALLY, you cannot be at ease within. THE NON-ACCEPTANCE CREATES A TENSION. Once you accept everything as it is, you are at home in the world. Tantra says this is a basic thing: you must be at home. Only then something more becomes possible. If you are tense, divided, in conflict, in anguish, in guilt, how can you transcend? You are so much messed up inside, you cannot travel further. You are so much engaged here, so much possessed by the here, you cannot go beyond.
This seems paradoxical. THOSE WHO ARE TOO MUCH AGAINST THE WORLD ARE TOO MUCH IN IT; they have to be. You cannot go away from your enemy, you are possessed by the enemy. If the world is your enemy, whatsoever you do or pretend to do, you will remain worldly. You may even go against it, you may renounce it, but your very approach will be worldly.
OSHO
Because of this insistence, many things become possible for tantra. One: TANTRA CAN ACCEPT EVERYTHING, and a deep acceptance relaxes you completely; nothing else can relax you. A deep acceptance... If there is no division between this world and that, if the transcendental is imminent here and now, if matter is just the body of the divine, THEN NOTHING IS DENIED, NOTHING IS CONDEMNED and you need not be tense.
Even if it may take ages for you to come to realize the divine, THERE IS NO HURRY FOR TANTRA. It is already there, and time is not lacking. It is eternally here; whenever you will open your eyes, you will get it. And whatsoever you are already getting is the hidden divine.
SO THE CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE OF CONDEMNATION, OF SIN, or of other such attitudes of religions, IS TOTALLY ALIEN TO TANTRA -- and absurd. Because if you condemn something, you also become divided inwardly; you cannot divide things only outwardly. If you divide, you also will be divided in parallel. If you say that this world is wrong, then your body will become wrong; because your body is part of this world.
IF YOU SAY THAT THIS WORLD IS SOMETHING WHICH IS A HINDRANCE TO REACHING THE ULTIMATE, then your whole life will be condemned and you will feel guilty. Then you cannot enjoy, then you cannot live, then you cannot laugh. Then seriousness will become your face. You can be only serious; you cannot be non-serious, you cannot be playful.
THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ALL THE MONKS ALL OVER THE WORLD. They become dead, serious. And through seriousness they become dead, because they cannot accept life as it is. They deny it; and they feel that unless they deny, they cannot reach the other world.
So the other world becomes the ideal, the future, the desire, the ambition; and this world becomes a sin. Then one feels guilty within. AND ANY RELIGION THAT MAKES YOU GUILTY, MAKES YOU NEUROTIC. It drives you crazy!
In this sense, TANTRA IS THE ONLY HEALTHY RELIGION. And whenever any religion becomes healthy, it becomes tantric. So every religion has two aspects. One is the outer aspect: the church, the organization, the publicized, the public face, the exoteric. This aspect is always life-denying. And the other aspect is the inner core. Every religion has that too: the esoteric. It is always tantric -- the totally accepting.
UNLESS YOU ACCEPT THE WORLD TOTALLY, you cannot be at ease within. THE NON-ACCEPTANCE CREATES A TENSION. Once you accept everything as it is, you are at home in the world. Tantra says this is a basic thing: you must be at home. Only then something more becomes possible. If you are tense, divided, in conflict, in anguish, in guilt, how can you transcend? You are so much messed up inside, you cannot travel further. You are so much engaged here, so much possessed by the here, you cannot go beyond.
This seems paradoxical. THOSE WHO ARE TOO MUCH AGAINST THE WORLD ARE TOO MUCH IN IT; they have to be. You cannot go away from your enemy, you are possessed by the enemy. If the world is your enemy, whatsoever you do or pretend to do, you will remain worldly. You may even go against it, you may renounce it, but your very approach will be worldly.
OSHO
Vigyan Bhairav TantraVol 1,
Ch #29: Sound methods for the dropping of mind
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