The Book of Secrets (International Edition)

The Book of Secrets (International Edition)
112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
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Without meditation you do not know the secrets of life, you know only the surface of life." Osho

A comprehensive and practical guide to meditation, The Book of Secrets invites us to experience and experiment with everyday life through the awareness of our beings. Osho introduces 112 individual meditation techniques based on ancient texts – and translates them into a contemporary understanding of meditations that focus on consciousness of the present moment. Each technique is described in detail and explains how to discover those best suited to each of us and how to integrate them into our daily lives. Osho’s audience is actively involved in follow up questions to which Osho responds.
This transformative book comes with original Osho Talk and his response to the question "What is Meditation?" introduces us to a deep and direct experience of meditation, relaxation and higher awareness. Osho takes meditation out of any religious or spiritual context and makes it the underlying science of a new way of living in joy and awareness.
Chapter Titles
    #1: The World of Tantra
    #2: The Path of Yoga and the Path of Tantra
    #3: Breath – a Bridge to the Universe
    #4: Overcoming the Deceptions of the Mind
    #5: Five Techniques of Attentiveness
    #6: Devices to Transcend Dreaming
    #7: Techniques to Put You at Ease
    #8: Total Acceptance and Non-division
    #9: Techniques for Centering
    #10: Self Actualization: the Basic Need
    #11: Techniques to Penetrate the Inner
    #12: Beyond the Mind to the Source
    #13: Inner Centering
    #14: Changing the Direction of Energy
    #15: Seeing the past as a Dream
    #16: Beyond the Sin of Unconsciousness
    #17: Several Stop Techniques
    #18: Remaining with the Facts
    #19: A Technique for the Intellectual and a Technique for the Feeling Type
    #20: Ordinary Love and the Love of a Buddha
    #21: Three Looking Techniques
    #22: Unblocking the Third Eye
    #23: Several More Looking Methods
    #24: Doubt or Faith, Life or Death: the Bases of Different Paths
    #25: From Words to Pure Sounds to Being
    #26: Acceptance of the Peaks and the Valleys
    #27: Soundlessness, Soundfulness and Total Awareness
    #28: Meditation: an Unburdening of Repressions
    #29: Methods for the Dropping of Mind
    #30: Accept Life in Its Totality
    #31: From Sound to Inner Silence
    #32: No Fight Is the Central Teaching
    #33: The Spirituality of the Tantric Sex Act
    #34: Cosmic Orgasm through Tantra
    #35: Turning Inward toward the Real
    #36: From Maya (illusion) to Reality
    #37: Techniques to Witness the Flux-like Film of Life
    #38: Toward the Authentic Being
    #39: From the Wave to the Cosmic Ocean
    #40: Sudden Enlightenment and Its Obstacles
    #41: Tantric Methods for Awareness and Non-judgment
    #42: Alertness through Tantra
    #43: Finding the Changeless through the Changing
    #44: Secrets of Love and Liberation
    #45: Remaining with the Real
    #46: The Tantric Way to Freedom from Desires
    #47: Tantric Meditation Using Light
    #48: The Potentiality of the Seed
    #49: Conscious Doing
    #50: Moving to the Roots
    #51: Coming Back to Existence
    #52: Entering This Moment
    #53: From Death to Deathlessness
    #54: The Fire of Awareness
    #55: Only the Unreal Dissolves
    #56: Discovering Emptiness
    #57: You Are Everywhere
    #58: Go beyond Karma
    #59: Watch from the Hill
    #60: Liberate Yourself from Yourself
    #61: Techniques to Become One with the Whole
    #62: Right Now Is the Goal
    #63: Start Creating Yourself
    #64: Choicelessness Is Bliss
    #65: Destroy the Limits
    #66: A Buddha Is a Nobody
    #67: Go Beyond Mind and Matter
    #68: Energy Enjoys Itself Playing
    #69: You Are Unknown to Yourself
    #70: Suffer the Pain of Aloneness
    #71: Forget the Periphery
    #72: Start Living in Insecurity
    #73: Fear of Transformation Goes Deep
    #74: Sensitivity Is Awareness
    #75: Seek the Rhythm of Opposites
    #76: Life Is Sex Energy
    #77: Become Each Being
    #78: The Inner Guide
    #79: The Philosophy of Emptiness
    #80: All and Nothing Mean the Same
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A comprehensive and practical guide to meditation, The Book of Secrets invites us to experience and experiment with everyday life through the awareness of our beings.

Excerpts from: The Book of Secrets, Chapter 1
Tantra says, accept whatsoever you are. This is the basic note – total acceptance. And only through total acceptance can you grow. Then use every energy you have.

"How can you use them? Accept them, then find out what these energies are – what is sex, what is this phenomenon. We are not acquainted with it. We know many things about sex, taught by others. We may have passed through the sex act, but with a guilty mind, with a suppressive attitude, in haste, in a hurry. Something has to be done in order to become unburdened. The sex act is not a loving act. You are not happy in it, but you cannot leave it. The more you try to leave it, the more attractive it becomes. The more you want to negate it, the more you feel invited. You cannot negate it, but this attitude to negate, to destroy, destroys the very mind, the very awareness, the very sensitivity which can understand it. So sex goes on with no sensitivity into it. Then you cannot understand it.

"Only a deep sensitivity can understand anything; only a deep feeling, a deep moving into it, can understand anything. You can understand sex only if you move in it as a poet moves amidst flowers – only then! If you feel guilty about flowers, you may pass through the garden, but you will pass with closed eyes. And you will be in a hurry, in a deep, mad haste. Somehow you have to go out of the garden. Then how can you be aware?

"So tantra says, accept whatsoever you are. You are a great mystery of many multidimensional energies. Accept it, and move with every energy with deep sensitivity, with awareness, with love, with understanding. Move with it! Then every desire becomes a vehicle to go beyond it. Then every energy becomes a help. And then this very world is nirvana, this very body is a temple – a holy temple, a holy place." Osho
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
love... look... center... ego... sex... change... heart... shiva... bokuju... mahavira...

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Edition/ Version    International Edition
Type    Series of Talks
Publisher    St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN-13    978-0312650605
Dimensions (size)    190 x 210 mm
Number of Pages    1328
Additional Media    With DVD