The Book of Secrets is Osho’s commentary on Vigyan Bharava Tantra, ( The Book of Shiva) an ancient book on Tantra. Tantra means technique. There are 112 meditation techniques that Osho discusses in this book These techniques are intended for transforming the mind .Tantra says there is no duality in the world ,there is no such thing as good or bad, virtue or vice, beautiful or ugly. It is because of the division of the mind that we see duality in this world. On practicing any one of the techniques out of the 112 one can attain a non-dual, unified mind like the one that reminds of a child’s mind..
The book Vigyan Bhairav Tantra starts with Devi asking certain philosophical questions to Shiva like O Shiva, What is your reality? What is this wonder filled universe? What constitute seed? Who centers the universal wheel?- But Shiva is not giving any verbal or logical or philosophical answers to these questions. Instead he gives her a technique to practice. And if Devi practices this technique, she will know it for herself.This is the Tantric way of answering a question . If a blind man is asking what is light Tantra will not explain to him what is light , instead he will be given proper treatment to cure his blindness, so that he can see. Tantra will say how to attain insight, how to attain seeing, how to attain vision. Tantra will not give you the answer. Tantra will give you the technique to attain the answer.
There are 112 meditation techniques that Osho discusses in the Book of secrets starting from breathing techniques to stop techniques and ending with the philosophy of emptiness. It also discusses the techniques of attentiveness and awareness, looking techniques , sound and silence techniques etc. etc..All activities as well as non-activities of everyday life are considered in this book as meditation techniques to transform the mind. ..There are 80 chapters altogether in this book spreading over 1302 pages. . Each chapter , describing the meditation techniques and carrying the lines of Shiva - Devi dialogues translated into English from Vigyan Bhairava Tantra , is followed by a chapter of Osho’s responses on questions from seekers .
A good book to read and assimilate. An Osho reader will definitely love this book.
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