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What does it mean?
Tantra affirms all aspects of existence without rejection. It embraces life fully rather than denying parts of it.
In plain terms
Embrace everything in life without rejection.
What can you take from it?
Say yes to all of life.

Where it applies

  • spiritual path
  • personal acceptance
  • life choices

Putting it to work

  • embrace all emotions
  • affirm life daily
  • accept the shadow

Questions to consider

  • What am I refusing to say yes to?
  • How does acceptance change my experience?

Another view

Total affirmation can ignore harmful patterns.

More from Osho

  1. Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology.

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  2. Tantra says there is nobody above you whom you have to follow, through whom you have to get your pattern.

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  3. Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.

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