Book of Secrets (eBook)

Osho is a contemporary mystic whose life and teachings have influenced millions of people of all ages, and from all walks of life. His often provocative and challenging teachings generate today more and more interest and his readership is dramatically expanding around the world in more than fifty languages. The Sunday Times in London named Osho as one of the "1,000 Makers of the 20th Century". He is known around the world for his revolutionary contribution to meditation - the science of inner transformation - with the unique approach of his "OSHO Active Meditations" acknowledging the accelerated pace of contemporary life and bringing meditation into modern life

Introduction 3Contents 5Preface 1. The World of Tantra 2. The Path of Yoga and the Path of Tantra 3. Breath A Bridge to the Universe Watch the gap between two breaths Watch the turning point between two breaths Watch the fusion point of two breaths Be aware when breathing stops 4. Overcoming the Deceptions of the Mind 5. Five Techniques of Attentiveness Focus your attention on the third eye Focus on the gap during your daily activities A technique to be aware in dreams Watch the turning point with devotion Lie down as dead. Stare without blinking. Suck something and become the sucking. 6. Devices to Transcend Dreaming 7. Techniques to Put You at Ease Become the caress Close your senses, become stone-like Let yourself become weightless 8. Total Acceptance and Non-Division: The Meaning of Tantric Purity 9. Techniques for Centering Concentrate totally on one object Put your awareness on your spine 10. Self Actualization: The Basic Need 11. Techniques to Penetrate the Inner Close all the openings of your head Absorb the senses in your heart Do not choose, keep in the middle 12. Beyond the Mind to the Source 13. Inner Centering Look lovingly at an object Sit on your buttocks only Meditate in a moving vehicle Concentrate on a pain in your body 14. Changing the Direction of Energy 15. Seeing the Past as a Dream Look at your past, disidentified Feel an object and become it Watch your moods 16. Beyond the Sin of Unconsciousness 17. Several Stop Techniques Stop! Face any desire Exhaust yourself and drop to the ground 18. Remaining with the Facts 19. A Technique for the Intellectual and a Technique for the Feeling Type Imagine yourself losing all energy Devote yourself 20. Ordinary Love and the Love of a Buddha 21. Three Looking Techniques Close the eyes and stop their movement Look at an object as a whole Look at an object as if for the first time 22. Unblocking the Third Eye 23. Several More Looking Methods Look into the limitless sky A secret method Look into a deep well Withdraw yourself completely 24. Doubt or Faith, Life or Death: The Bases of Different Paths 25. From Words to Pure Words to Being Beyond words and sounds Feel yourself in the center of sounds 26. Acceptance of the Peaks and the Valleys 27. Soundlessness, Soundfulness and Total Awareness Intone a sound and become it Listen to a fading sound Listen to a stringed instrument 28. Meditation: An Unburdening of Repressions 29. Methods for the Dropping of Mind Use sound as a passage toward feeling Focus your mind on the tongue A method for those with a sensitive ear 30. Surrendering in Sex and Surrendering to a Master 31. From Sound to Inner Silence Intone a word ending in AH” Closing ears and contracting rectum Use your name as a mantra 32. No Fight” Is the Central Teaching 33. The Spirituality of the Tantric Sex Act In the sex act, do not seek the release Shaking in sex Make love without the partner When joy arises, become it Eat and drink consciously 34. Cosmic Orgasm through Tantra 35. Turning Inward toward the Real Self-remembering Feel the satisfaction Be aware of the gap between waking and sleep Think of the world as an illusion 36. From Illusion to Reality 37. Techniques to Witness the Flux-like Film of Life Be undisturbed by desires See the world as a drama Stay in the middle between two polarities Acceptance 38. Toward the Authentic Being 39. From the Wave to the Cosmic Ocean Experience existence as wave-ing Use mind as the door to meditation Be aware who is sensing 40. Sudden Enlightenment and Its Obstacles 41. Tantric Methods for Awareness and NonJudgment At the beginning of a strong sensation, be aware Do not judge 42. Alertness through Tantra 43. Finding the Changeless through the Changing Be aware of that which never changes in you Remember that everything changes 44. Secrets of Love and Liberation 45. Remaining with the Real Be hope-less Go beyond bondage and freedom 46. The Tantric Way to Freedom from Desires 47. Tantric Meditation Using Light Visualize light rays rising up your spine Visualize a spark of light jumping from one chakra to the next Feel the presence of the ever-living existence 48. The Potentiality of the Seed 49. Conscious Doing Become the clarity of the cloudless sky Feel the whole universe in your head Remember yourself as light 50. Moving to the Roots 51. Coming Back to Existence Dissolve into darkness Bringing out the inner darkness Develop pure attentiveness 52. Entering This Moment 53. From Death to Deathlessness Focus on fire Imagine the whole world burning Everything converges in your being 54. The Fire of Awareness 55. Only the Unreal Dissolves Feel, don’t think Change your focus to the gaps 56. Discovering Emptiness 57. You Are Everywhere Detach yourself from your body Thinking no thing 58. Go Beyond Karma 59. Watch from the Hill Imagine the unimaginable Feel I am” 60. Liberate Yourself From Yourself 61. Techniques to Become One with the Whole Know the knower and the known Include everything in your being 62. Right Now Is the Goal 63. Start Creating Yourself Touch your eyes lightly Experience your etheric body 64. Choicelessness Is Bliss 65. Destroy the Limits Be aware of the moments of no-thought Consider the body limitless 66. A Buddha Is a Nobody 67. Go Beyond Mind and Matter Feel yourself saturated Concentrate on the breasts, or on the root of the penis 68. Energy Enjoys Itself Playing 69. You Are Unknown to Yourself Look into unlimited space Fill endless space with your bliss body 70. Suffer the Pain of Aloneness 71. Forget the Periphery Feel the peace in your heart Expand in all directions 72. Start Living in Insecurity 73. Fear of Transformation Goes Deep Remain detached Believe that you are all-powerful 74. Sensitivity Is Awareness 75. Seek the Rhythm of Opposites Imagine spirit within and without Do not fight with desire The limits of perception Realize the oneness of existence 76. Life is Sex Energy 77. Become Each Being Become each being Know only consciousness exists Become your own inner guide 78. The Inner Guide 79. The Philosophy of Emptiness Feel your body as empty Be playful in activity Beyond knowing and not-knowing Enter the space within 80. All and Nothing Mean the Same OSHO INTERNATIONAL MEDITATION RESORT About the Author List of Meditations