The Book of the Secrets
About This Book
The Book of the Secrets is Osho's monumental commentary on the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra — an ancient Shaivite text presenting 112 methods for entering the state of pure consciousness — expanded through Osho's characteristic technique of responding to disciples' questions into a series of discourses spanning five volumes and nearly a thousand pages. Each of the 112 methods is presented, explained, and placed in context with extraordinary depth and practical clarity: the method of watching the breath, the method of resting in the pause between breaths, techniques working with sound, with touch, with imagination, with the body, with dissolution in sleep, and with the recognition of awareness as the nature of consciousness itself.
The text stands as arguably the most comprehensive practical manual of meditation techniques ever assembled in a single work. What Osho adds to the Vigyan Bhairav's bare instructions is the why and how: why a particular technique works for a particular temperament, how different techniques address different entry points into the same territory of pure awareness, and what obstacles typically arise and how to work with them. The breadth of the coverage — 112 techniques suited to virtually every personality type and situation of life — makes this an inexhaustible reference for any serious meditator.
What You'll Learn
• Understand the structure of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra's 112 methods: how they are organised, what range of human temperament and capacity they address, and Osho's principle for selecting the technique most appropriate for any individual practitioner
• Grasp the breath-related techniques in depth: not just the instruction to 'watch the breath' but the specific qualities of awareness that Osho identifies in the space between inhalation and exhalation as the direct doorway into the unconditioned consciousness
• Learn the sound-based techniques: how trataka (gazing), mantra, and the deep listening to pure sound lead into the awareness that underlies all sound, and what this recognition reveals about the nature of the mind that normally fills silence with its own noise
• Recognise the body-based techniques: how fully inhabiting specific physical sensations — the sensation of touch, of pleasure, of the body's presence in space — can serve as direct doors into the awareness that is witnessing all sensation without being identified with any particular one
• Appreciate Osho's specific contribution: how his commentary transforms what might seem like a cryptic ancient list into a living teaching that meets the contemporary practitioner in their actual situation — their specific resistances, their particular temperament, and the confusions that any serious attempt at meditation will inevitably generate
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