Cairo, the 9th September, 2010

Genius OSHO

"When I use the word SEXUALITY I don´t just mean genitality. The genital is only one very, very tiny experience and expression of the sexual. The sexual is a very great thing.
By sexual I mean whenever your body is alive, sensuous, throbbing, pulsating - then you are in a sexual state. It may not have anything to do with the genital.

For example, when you are dancing you are sexual; a dancer is sexual, the dance energy is sexual energy. It is not genital; you may not be thinking at all about sex, you may have completely forgotten about sex. In fact, when you forget everything about sex and you are dissolved into any deep participation with your total body, it is sexuality. You may be swimming or running - running in the morning.
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So when I use the word SEXUAL I mean this experience of totality. Genitality is only one of the functions of sexuality.

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When you pulsate from your toe to your head, when every fiber of your being pulsates - when all cells of your body dance, when there is a great orchestra inside you, when everything is dancing - then there is orgasm."

I´ve been saying it since I first taught Oriental Dance: Do not be afraid to be sexual because you are a SEXUAL BEING and by that I mean to free yourself from the mental jail you were (un)educated in and take the PLEASURE of LIFE for yourself. The PLEASURE of FEELING your body in all its sensations for yourself.
The PLEASURE of savouring food, the wind, a simple kiss, a touch, a sun ray, love, a rainy day, etc,etc...all that LIFE has to offer...all for yourself.

Simply TO ENJOY yourself...

And I keep on saying to students from all over the world: ORIENTAL DANCE is all about being naturally sexual and sensuous, having pleasure with the music, the body, the air you breath, the inner landscape of JOY that comes with the communion with the music...

All this time I´ve been saying this and then I read it so clear in the words of OSHO.
Is this concept of SEXUALITY (not genitality, not pornography) so difficult to understand?

And until when will ORIENTAL DANCE be connected with the limited, negative side of it???