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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 gide to meditation, The Book of Secrets invites us to expereince and experiment with everyday life through the awareness of our thoughts, behaviours, and physical senses.
This transformative book comes with a DVD of an original OSHO Talk, where his response to the question 'What is meditation''introduces us to a deep and direct experience of mediation, relaxation, and higher awareness. Osho teakes meditation out of any particular religious or spiritual context and reveals the underlying science of a new way of living in joy and awareness.
This newly revised edition of the classic Osho work includes:
A DVD with an original OSHO Talk and introduction to meditation.
Meditation and discussion texts revised and reworked for clarity.
An elegant new interior design.
A new introduction.
A new easy-to-read trim size.
OSHO is oneof the most provocative and inspiring spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. He is known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, and the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.
Contents
Introducton
Preface
1 The world of tantra
2 The path of yoga and the path to 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: the meaning of tantric purity
9 Techniques for centering
10 Self-actualization: the basic need
11 Techniques to penetrate the inner
12 Beyond he mind to the source
13 Seeing the past as a dream
16 Beyond the sin of unconsciousness
17 Several 'stop' techniques
18 Remaining with the facts
19 A techniques for the intellectual and a technique for the feeling type
20 Ordinary love and the love of a buddha
21 Three blocking 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 words to being
26 Acceptance of he peaks and the valleys
27 Soundlessness, soundfulness, and total awareness
28 Meditations: an unburdening of repressions
29 Methods for the dropping of mind
30 Surrendering in sex and surrendering to a master
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 (llusion) to railty
37 Techniques to witness the fluxlike 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 aand nonjudgment
42 Alertness through tantra
43 Finding the changless through the changing
44 Secrets for 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 Destroiy 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
List of meditations
OSHO International Meditation Resort
About Osho
For more information
About the DVD
A comprehensive and practical gide to meditation, The Book of Secrets invites us to expereince and experiment with everyday life through the awareness of our thoughts, behaviours, and physical senses.
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Osho introduces 112 individual meditation technques based on ancient texts-and translates them into a contemporary understanding of meditation that focuses on consciousness of the present moment. Each technique is described in detail so hat we can experiment and discover those that are best suited to us and integrate them into our daiy lives.This transformative book comes with a DVD of an original OSHO Talk, where his response to the question 'What is meditation''introduces us to a deep and direct experience of mediation, relaxation, and higher awareness. Osho teakes meditation out of any particular religious or spiritual context and reveals the underlying science of a new way of living in joy and awareness.
This newly revised edition of the classic Osho work includes:
A DVD with an original OSHO Talk and introduction to meditation.
Meditation and discussion texts revised and reworked for clarity.
An elegant new interior design.
A new introduction.
A new easy-to-read trim size.
OSHO is oneof the most provocative and inspiring spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. He is known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, and the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.
Contents
Introducton
Preface
1 The world of tantra
2 The path of yoga and the path to 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: the meaning of tantric purity
9 Techniques for centering
10 Self-actualization: the basic need
11 Techniques to penetrate the inner
12 Beyond he mind to the source
13 Seeing the past as a dream
16 Beyond the sin of unconsciousness
17 Several 'stop' techniques
18 Remaining with the facts
19 A techniques for the intellectual and a technique for the feeling type
20 Ordinary love and the love of a buddha
21 Three blocking 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 words to being
26 Acceptance of he peaks and the valleys
27 Soundlessness, soundfulness, and total awareness
28 Meditations: an unburdening of repressions
29 Methods for the dropping of mind
30 Surrendering in sex and surrendering to a master
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 (llusion) to railty
37 Techniques to witness the fluxlike 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 aand nonjudgment
42 Alertness through tantra
43 Finding the changless through the changing
44 Secrets for 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 Destroiy 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
List of meditations
OSHO International Meditation Resort
About Osho
For more information
About the DVD
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ISBN
9780312650605
Publication
St. Martin's Press New York