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Book of the Secrets 3
"These techniques will not mention any religious ritual. No temple is needed, you are quite enough of a temple yourself. You are the lab; the whole experiment is to go on within you. This is not religion, this is science. No belief is needed. Only a daringness to experiment is enough; courage to experiment is enough.
These 112 methods are for the whole of humanity-for all the ages that have passed, and for all the ages that have yet to come. I will go on describing each method from as many angles as possible. If you feel any affinity with it, play with it for three days. If you feel that it fits, that something clicks in you, continue it for three months.
Life is a miracle. If you have not known its mystery, that only shows that you do not know the technique for how to approach it." --Osho
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
These 112 methods are for the whole of humanity-for all the ages that have passed, and for all the ages that have yet to come. I will go on describing each method from as many angles as possible. If you feel any affinity with it, play with it for three days. If you feel that it fits, that something clicks in you, continue it for three months.
Life is a miracle. If you have not known its mystery, that only shows that you do not know the technique for how to approach it." --Osho
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
398 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1980
About the author
Osho
4,365 books6,878 followersRajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
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September 16, 2024
BHAGWAN CONTINUES HIS DISCUSSION OF TANTRA
The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 1931-1990; he changed his name to "Osho" shortly before his death) was a controversial Indian spiritual teacher with an international following. His teachings on Tantra and sexuality earned him the name "the sex guru" in the mass media; he moved his ashram from India to Oregon in 1981, where they had substantial conflicts with the local community (including a criminal food contamination attack on Oregon residents ordered by the ashram leaders); he was deported in 1985 [see 'Bhagwan: Twelve Days That Shook the World'], and finally settled in India again, where he died.
His teachings continue to be promoted by the Osho International Meditation Resort. His daily lectures were recorded for many years, and turned into books such as I Am the Gate: The Meaning of Initiation and Discipleship, Philosophia Perennis Volume 2, etc.
Other books about him include 'Dying for Enlightenment: Living with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh,' 'Bhagwan: The God That Failed,' 'Ultimate Game: The Rise and Fall of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh', 'The Promise of Paradise,' 'The Quest for Total Bliss,' 'The Golden Guru,' etc.
He said in this 1976 book, "All over the world... so much lust for sex is not because the world has become more sexual. It is because you cannot even enjoy sex as a total act. The world was more sexual before. That is why there was no such hankering for sex... The whole modern mind has become sexual because the sex act itself is no more there... It has become mental; you think about it... There are two parts to the sex act---the beginning and the end. Remain with the beginning. The beginning part is more relaxed, warm. But do not be in a hurry to move to the end. Forget the end completely... Do not see ejaculation: forget it completely. Be whole in this warm beginning." (Pg. 6-8)
He states, "Shankara says with senses there is no possibility to know whether the thing confronting you is real or unreal... Shankara calls it 'maya': it is illusion. Illusion doesn't mean unreal... In Western languages 'maya' has been translated very wrongly, and it gives the feeling in Western terms that 'illusion' means 'unreal.' It does not! 'Illusion' means the inability to decide whether the thing is real or unreal. This confusion is maya." (Pg. 68)
He argues, "If your mind can conceive of it, it will absorb it into its own system, and then you cannot transcend your mind. That is why every religion has insisted on some point which is absurd... From that absurdity you either turn back and say, 'I cannot believe so I will go away': then you remain yourself; or, you take a jump: you turn away from your mind. And unless your mind is killed the Enlightenment cannot happen. Your mind is the problem, your logic is the problem, your arguments are the problem." (Pg. 179)
He adds, "Thinking is repetitious, tautological. It never reaches to anything new and unknown. Through thinking you never touch the unknown; you only touch the known, and it is meaningless because you already know it." (Pg. 184)
He advises, "This oneness is what was hidden in the sex act. The sex was just the outer core... This was what the hankering was for... this unity, this dissolving of the ego, this feeling of oneness, this ecstasy of non-tension, this ecstasy of relaxation. This...is what you were searching for through this woman and that... man... but no woman can fulfill it, no man can fulfill it. Only through a deep tantric awareness does the sex act completely disappear, and a deep ecstasy is revealed. So tantra says it is you: if you can bring meditation to your love, to your sex, the sex is transformed." (Pg. 238)
This book will be of interest to anyone interested in Osho's eclectic teachings.
The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 1931-1990; he changed his name to "Osho" shortly before his death) was a controversial Indian spiritual teacher with an international following. His teachings on Tantra and sexuality earned him the name "the sex guru" in the mass media; he moved his ashram from India to Oregon in 1981, where they had substantial conflicts with the local community (including a criminal food contamination attack on Oregon residents ordered by the ashram leaders); he was deported in 1985 [see 'Bhagwan: Twelve Days That Shook the World'], and finally settled in India again, where he died.
His teachings continue to be promoted by the Osho International Meditation Resort. His daily lectures were recorded for many years, and turned into books such as I Am the Gate: The Meaning of Initiation and Discipleship, Philosophia Perennis Volume 2, etc.
Other books about him include 'Dying for Enlightenment: Living with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh,' 'Bhagwan: The God That Failed,' 'Ultimate Game: The Rise and Fall of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh', 'The Promise of Paradise,' 'The Quest for Total Bliss,' 'The Golden Guru,' etc.
He said in this 1976 book, "All over the world... so much lust for sex is not because the world has become more sexual. It is because you cannot even enjoy sex as a total act. The world was more sexual before. That is why there was no such hankering for sex... The whole modern mind has become sexual because the sex act itself is no more there... It has become mental; you think about it... There are two parts to the sex act---the beginning and the end. Remain with the beginning. The beginning part is more relaxed, warm. But do not be in a hurry to move to the end. Forget the end completely... Do not see ejaculation: forget it completely. Be whole in this warm beginning." (Pg. 6-8)
He states, "Shankara says with senses there is no possibility to know whether the thing confronting you is real or unreal... Shankara calls it 'maya': it is illusion. Illusion doesn't mean unreal... In Western languages 'maya' has been translated very wrongly, and it gives the feeling in Western terms that 'illusion' means 'unreal.' It does not! 'Illusion' means the inability to decide whether the thing is real or unreal. This confusion is maya." (Pg. 68)
He argues, "If your mind can conceive of it, it will absorb it into its own system, and then you cannot transcend your mind. That is why every religion has insisted on some point which is absurd... From that absurdity you either turn back and say, 'I cannot believe so I will go away': then you remain yourself; or, you take a jump: you turn away from your mind. And unless your mind is killed the Enlightenment cannot happen. Your mind is the problem, your logic is the problem, your arguments are the problem." (Pg. 179)
He adds, "Thinking is repetitious, tautological. It never reaches to anything new and unknown. Through thinking you never touch the unknown; you only touch the known, and it is meaningless because you already know it." (Pg. 184)
He advises, "This oneness is what was hidden in the sex act. The sex was just the outer core... This was what the hankering was for... this unity, this dissolving of the ego, this feeling of oneness, this ecstasy of non-tension, this ecstasy of relaxation. This...is what you were searching for through this woman and that... man... but no woman can fulfill it, no man can fulfill it. Only through a deep tantric awareness does the sex act completely disappear, and a deep ecstasy is revealed. So tantra says it is you: if you can bring meditation to your love, to your sex, the sex is transformed." (Pg. 238)
This book will be of interest to anyone interested in Osho's eclectic teachings.
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