The Book of Secrets 
112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

The Book of Secrets is a step by step guide to find the best meditation suitable for you.


112 methods of meditation are described and introduced here with helpful background information to give contemporary people a door to meditation.


Reading this book, not only will your outlook on life change, but so will your life. If you want to know more about life and yourself this is your book.


Each chapter that focuses on describing specific meditation techniques is followed by a chapter of questions from those who were present during the talks. In most cases, their questions relate to the techniques given in the previous chapter. So, as you start to experiment with a technique, it will be helpful to look into these chapters for some extra hint, some greater depth of understanding, or response to a question that might have arisen for you in your experiments.

Table of Content

Introduction 3

Contents 5

Preface

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 Non Judgment

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

About the author

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