When you make love to a woman or to
a man, the point of orgasm is the point of Nothingness. At that moment the
woman is no more a woman and the man is no more a man. Those forms have
disappeared. That polarity between man and woman is no more there that tension
is no more there; it is utterly relaxed. They have both melted into each other.
They have unformed themselves, they have gone into a state which cannot be
defined. The man cannot say 'I', the woman cannot say 'I'; they are no longer
'I's, they are no longer egos -- because egos are always in conflict, the ego
exists through conflict, it cannot exist without conflict. In that moment of
orgasm there are no longer any egos. Hence the beauty of it, hence the ecstasy of it, hence the Samadhi-like
quality of it.
But it happens only for a moment.
But even that moment, a single moment of it, is more valuable than your whole
life -- because in that moment you come closest to the truth. Man and woman are
no longer separate; this is a polarity. Yin and yang, positive and negative,
day and night, summer and winter, life and death -- these are polarities. When
'yes' and 'no' meet, when the opposites meet and are no longer opposites; when
they go into each other dissolve into each other, there is orgasm. Orgasm is
the meeting of yes and no. It is not identical with no; it is beyond both yes
and no.
In a sense it is beyond both; in a
sense it is both together, simultaneously. The merger of the negative and the
positive is the definition of nothingness. And that is the definition of orgasm
too, and that is the definition of Samadhi too. Let it be remembered. The
identity of yes and no is the secret of emptiness, nothingness, nirvana.
Emptiness is not just empty; it is a presence, a very solid presence. It does
not exclude its opposites; it includes it, it is full of it. It is a full
emptiness, it is an overflowing emptiness. It is alive, abundantly alive, and
tremendously alive. So never for a single moment let dictionaries deceive you,
otherwise you will misunderstand Buddha.
The Heart Sutra
Osho
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