Tantra, Zen, and Natural Hygiene: The Evolution of Our Culture and Our Health

(1) Natural Hygiene: www.livingnutrition.com , www.doctorgraham.cc , www.healthfullivingintl.org/ ,
www.transformationinst.com , www.roegallo.com , www.healself.org , www.doctoryourself.com

This is the science of Health. By following the information provided in the links above, you will be disease and cancer free, and will never be sick again!!!

(2) Tantra and Zen :

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This is quoted from www.osho.com

Zen -- Sex -- Health


Zen has no belief-system about anything, and that includes sex too -- Zen says nothing about it. And that should be the ultimate thing. 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.

Have you not seen a rope walker, a tightrope walker? He carries a staff in his hand to keep balance. If he feels he is leaning too much to the left, he immediately starts leaning to the right. Then again he feels that now he has leaned too much to the right, he starts leaning towards the left. This is how he keeps in the middle.


Tantra is a remedy.


The society has created a repressive mind, a life-negative mind, an anti-joy mind. The society is very much against sex. Why is the society so much against sex? -- because if you allow people sexual pleasure, you cannot transform them into slaves. It is impossible -- a joyous person cannot be made a slave. That is the trick. Only sad people can be turned into slaves. A joyous person is a free person; he has a kind of independence to him.

You cannot recruit joyous people for war. Impossible. Why should they go to war? But if a person has repressed his sexuality he is ready to go to war, he is eager to go to war, because he has not been able to enjoy life. He has become incapable of enjoying, hence has become incapable of creativity. Now he can do only one thing -- he can destroy. All his energies have become poison and destructive. He is ready to go to war -- not only ready, he is hankering for it. He wants to kill, he wants to destroy.

In fact, while destroying human beings he will have a vicarious joy of penetrating. That penetrating could have been in love and would have been beautiful. When you penetrate a woman's body in love, it is one thing. It is spiritual. But when things go wrong and you penetrate somebody's body with a sword, with a spear, it is ugly, it is violent, it is destructive. But you are searching for a substitute for penetration.


If society is allowed total freedom about joy, nobody will be destructive.


People who can love beautifully are never destructive. And people who can love beautifully and have the joy of life will not be competitive either. These are the problems.

That's why primitive people are not so competitive. They are enjoying their life. Who bothers to have a bigger house? Who bothers to have a bigger balance in the bank? For what? You are happy with your woman and with your man and you are having a dance of life. Who wants to sit in the marketplace for hours and hours and hours, day in, day out, year in, year out, hoping that in the end you will have a big bank balance and then you will retire and enjoy? That day never comes. It can't come, because the whole life you remain an ascetic.

Remember, the business people are ascetic people. They have devoted everything to money.


Now a man who knows love and has known the thrill of love and the ecstasy of it will not be competitive.


He will be happy if he can get his daily bread. That is the meaning of Jesus' prayer: "Give us our daily bread." That is more than enough. Now Jesus looks foolish. He should have asked, "Give us a bigger bank balance." He asks only for the daily bread? A joyous man never asks for more than that. The joy is so fulfilling.

It is only unfulfilled beings who are competitive, because they think life is not here, it is there. "I have to reach to Delhi and become the president," or to the White House and become this or that. "I have to go there, joy is there" -- because they know here there is no joy. So they are always on the go, go, go, go. They are always on the go, and they never reach. And the man who knows the joy, is here. Why should he be going to Delhi? For what? He is utterly happy herenow. His needs are very small. He has no desires. He has needs certainly, but no desires. Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.

Now this whole society depends on one thing and that is sex repression. Otherwise the economy will be destroyed, sabotaged. War will disappear and with it the whole war machinery, and the politics will become meaningless and the politician will no longer be important. Money will not have value if people are allowed to love. Because they are not allowed to love, money becomes the substitute, money becomes their love. So there is a subtle strategy.


Sex has to be repressed, otherwise this whole structure of the society will fall immediately.


Only love released into the world will bring revolution. Communism has failed, fascism has failed, capitalism has failed. All 'isms' have failed because deep down they are all sex repressive. On that point there is no difference -- no difference between Washington and Moscow, Beijing and Delhi -- there is no difference at all. They all agree upon one thing -- that sex has to be controlled, that people are not to be allowed to have innocent joy in sex.

To redress the balance comes Tantra; Tantra is a remedy. So it emphasizes sex too much. 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.


- Osho, The Diamond Sutra, #2 -

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For Further Reading:

"Natural Hygiene: The Pristine Way of Life" and "Superior Nutrition" by Dr. Herbert Shelton

"The Way of Zen" and "The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Really Are" By Alan Watts

And all of the following books by Osho:

sannyas.org/books/

"The Book of Secrets" (about Tantra !!!! www.tantra.com ) and:

Live Zen
Zen And The Art Of Enlightenment
Zen And The Art Of Living
Zen and the Art of Meditation
The Zen Manifesto: Freedom From Oneself
Zen: All the Colors of the Rainbow
Zen: Take It Easy
Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt
Zen: The Mystery and The Poetry of the Beyond
Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 1
Zen: The Quantum Leap From Mind to No-Mind
Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest
Zen: The Special Transmission
Zen: Zest, Zip, Zap and Zing

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Zen, Tantra, and Natural Hygiene are the foundations of "The Afterculture":

www.artstribe.com/green
www.artstribe.com/green/pages/Afterculture.html

This is Evolution !!!!