ORGASM, MEDITATION AND DEATH
Sexual orgasm (what most people experience) and meditative orgasms (what yogis experience in Samadhi trances are seemingly experienced at different ends of the breathing cycle. Sexual orgasms reach their temporary peak when a person is at full inhalation, while meditative orgasms are experienced continually at the end of the exhalation.
A yogi is able to stay at an even state between inhaling and exhaling. The breathing usually stops completely at the end of the exhalation and the yogi generally remains there, enveloped in a blissful state. There isn’t a lot of energy that needs to be expended in attaining such a state. It is a passive kind of control over the body.
The problem with sexual orgasms (if there must be one) is that the person always ends up going back down to a very blissful state not too unlike that of the yogis—but not exactly the same.
In the practice of Tantra, sex is spiritualized in a manner as only a yogi can accomplish. The participants perform certain practices so that they do not lose control of their bodies and succumb to an ordinary sexual orgasm. In doing this, they actually prolong the sexual encounter and almost effortlessly extend the near-orgasmic state of being that is otherwise attained at the fullest level of inhalation during a regular sexual orgasm.
The experiences of either Samadhi or the best orgasms both have to ability to destroy the Ego, or that which gives us a reference point to be able to operate in the universe. Without it you have no reference, nothing to cling to in order to be able to interpret what is happening before you. In that state, one has a choice to make—be unafraid or be totally afraid. You have the choice to experience it as joy or fear. See it as joyful fun or else be full of fear. That deathless-death state is the end of the journey. The ride is over. The carnival is closed.
I think people fear death because they are afraid of ending the show, the entertainment. I think part of the secret of conquering death (as it were) is not being afraid of the ending of the show. Maybe people who wait until the time of their body’s eventual destruction are the most afraid. Or maybe they are the most childlike? Maybe they think life is fun and meant to never end. But everything comes to an end. Maybe they just want to see the entire show…or maybe they are so un-evolved that they need to see the whole show.
It appears that we become yogis when we really have no more desire to see the show anymore. Said another way, perhaps when we are content with the show going on without us, then we feel okay if it ends. If so, so be it. We know it is all the same, all equivalent and we have no desire to interfere, no need to change the entertaining show that is arising from the ongoing execution of the behind-the-scenes-computer-like-program that is operating perfectly. When we have surfed enough channels (had enough lives and their assorted experiences) then we eventually decide to turn the boob-tube off (be wise enough not to reincarnate, which would be equivalent to turning it on again).
Doing this gives us the peace we so long to experience.
