The Book of Secrets (112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within) – Osho

The original text is called Vigyana Bhairava Tantra where Shiva (Bhairava) shares 112 meditation techniques with his consort Shakti (Bhairavi).

The 112 meditations of the world are broken down from as many angles as Osho can expound on. The knowledge Osho share is profound even if you don’t do the meditations. I believe I started the book in 2012 and tried each one for 1 – 3 weeks and if they felt like a good fit I kept it in my utility belt depending on what purpose it served. Osho suggest even playing with one for 3 days. I took my time going through each one and I have my own set of main ones that are not in the book so I did take a break from them.

I’ll try to link the ones useful to me and the ones in red were incomplete because I didn’t have the resources needed. Feel free to request more details on any meditation that you would like me to share. Another thing I noticed is that after going past half the book most of the meditations seemed to be a different take on a previous meditation, meaning it was either a variation on expanding consciousness to infinity or single-pointed focus on a thought, breath, item, object, etc.

Please note that Osho answers his devotees questions in alternate chapters, the questions are usually about the previous chapter’s meditations.

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Table of Contents with Mediation sutras

#1: The World of Tantra

#2: The Path of Yoga and the Path of Tantra

#3: Breath — a Bridge to the Universe
– Radiant One, this experience may dawn between two breaths. After breath comes in (down) and just before turning up (out) – the beneficence.
– As breath turns from down to up, and again as breath curves from up to down — through both these turns, realize.
– Or, whenever in-breath and out-breath fuse, at this instant touch the energy-less, energy-filled centre.
– Or, when breath is all out (up) and stopped of itself, or all in (down) and stopped — in such universal pause, one’s small self vanishes. this is difficult only for the impure.

#4: Overcoming the Deceptions of the Mind

#5: Five Techniques of Attentiveness
– Attention between eyebrows, let mind be before thought. let form fill with breath essence to the top of the head and there shower as light.
– When in worldly activity, keep attention between two breaths, and so practising, in a few days be born anew.
– With intangible breath in centre of forehead, as this reaches heart at the moment of sleep, have direction over dreams and over death itself.
– With utmost devotion, centre on the two junctions of breath and know the knower.
– Lie down as dead. Enraged in wrath, stay so. Or stare without moving an eyelash. Or suck something and become the sucking.

#6: Devices to Transcend Dreaming

#7: Techniques to Put You at Ease
– While being caressed, sweet princess, enter the caress as everlasting life.
– Stop the doors of the senses when feeling the creeping of an ant. Then.
– When on a bed or a seat, let yourself become weightless, beyond mind.

#8: Total Acceptance and Non-Division

#9: Techniques for Centering
– Or, imagine the five-colored circles of the peacock tail to be your five senses in illimitable space. Now let their beauty melt within. Similarly, at any point in space or on a wall — until the point dissolves. Then your wish for another comes true.
– Place your whole attention in the nerve, delicate as the lotus thread, in the center of your spinal column. In such be transformed.

#10: Fullfillment Through Becoming Centered

#11: Techniques to Penetrate the Inner Centers
– Closing the seven openings of the head with your hands, a space between your eyes becomes all inclusive.
– Blessed one, as senses are absorbed in the heart, reach the center of the lotus.
– Unminding mind, keep in the middle — until.

#12: Beyond the Mind to the Source

#13: Entering the Inner Center
– Look lovingly at some object. Do not go to another object. Here in the middle of the object — the blessing.
– Without support for feet or hands, sit only on the buttocks. suddenly, the centering.
– In a moving vehicle, by rhythmically swaying, experience. Or in a still vehicle, by letting yourself swing in slowing invisible circles.
– Pierce some part of your nectar-filled form with a pin, and gently enter the piercing and attain to the inner purity.

#14: Changing the Direction of Energy

#15: Toward the Untouched Inner Reality
– Let attention be at a place where you are seeing some past happening, and even your form, having lost its present characteristics, is transformed.
– Feel an object before you. Feel the absence of all other objects but this one. Then, leaving aside the object-feeling and the absence-feeling, realize.
– When a mood against someone or for someone arises, do not place it on the person in question, but remain centered.

#16: Beyond the Sin of Unconsciousness

#17: Several Stop Techniques
– Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop.
– When some desire comes, consider it. Then, suddenly, quit it.
– Roam about until exhausted and then, dropping to the ground, in this dropping be whole.

#18: Remaining with the Facts

#19: A Technique for the Intellectual and a Technique for the Feeling Type
– Suppose you are gradually being deprived of strength or of knowledge. At the instant of deprivation, transcend.
– Devotion frees.

#20: Ordinary Love and the Love of a Buddha

#21: Three Looking Techniques
– Eyes closed, see your inner being in detail. Thus see your true nature.
– Look upon a bowl without seeing the sides or the material. In a few moments become aware.
– See as if for the first time a beauteous person or an ordinary object.

#22: The Third Eye and Psychic Eye Power

#23: Several More Looking Methods
– Simply by looking into the blue sky beyond clouds, the serenity.
– Listen while the ultimate mystical teaching is imparted. Eyes still, without blinking, at once become absolutely free.
– At the edge of a deep well look steadily into its depths until — the wondrousness.
– Look upon some object, then slowly withdraw your sight from it, then slowly withdraw your thought from it. Then.

#24: Doubt or Faith, Life or Death: the Bases of Different Paths

#25: From Words to Pure Sounds to Being
– Devi, imagine the sanskrit letters in these honey-filled foci of awareness, first as letters, then more subtly as sounds, then as most subtle feeling. Then, leaving them aside, be free.
– Bathe in the center of sound, as in the continuous sound of a waterfall. Or, by putting the fingers in the ears, hear the sound of sounds.

#26: Acceptance of the Peaks and the Valleys

#27: Soundlessness, Soundfulness and Total Awareness
– Intone a sound, as aum, slowly. As sound enters soundfulness, so do you.
– In the beginning and gradual refinement of the sound of any letter, awake.
– While listening to stringed instruments, hear their composite central sound; thus omnipresence.

#28: Meditation: An Unburdening of Repressions

#29: Sound Methods for the Dropping of Mind
– Intone a sound audibly, then less and less audibly as feeling deepens into this silent harmony.
– With mouth slightly open, keep mind in the middle of the tongue. Or, as breath comes silently in, feel the sound “hh”.
– Center on the sound “aum” without any “a” or “m”.

#30: Surrendering to a Master

#31: From Sound to Inner Silence
– Silently intone a word ending in “ah.” Then in the “hh,” effortlessly, the spontaneity.
– Stopping ears by pressing and the rectum by contracting, enter the sound.
– Enter the sound of your name and, through this sound, all sounds.

#32: The Path of Surrender

#33: The Spirituality of the Tantric Sex Act
– At the start of sexual union keep attentive on the fire in the beginning, and so continuing, avoid the embers in the end.
– When in such embrace your senses are shaken as leaves, enter this shaking.
– Even remembering union, without the embrace, transformation.
– On joyously seeing a long absent friend, permeate this joy.
– When eating or drinking, become the taste of food or drink, and be filled.

#34: Cosmic Orgasm through Tantra

#35: Turning Inward Toward the Real
– Oh lotus-eyed one, sweet of touch, when singing, seeing, tasting, be aware you are and discover the ever-living.
– Wherever satisfaction is found, in whatever act, actualize this.
– At the point of sleep, when the sleep has not yet come and the external wakefulness vanishes, at this point being is revealed.
– Illusions deceive, colors circumscribe, even divisibles are indivisible.

#36: From Maya (Illusion) to Reality

#37: Techniques to Witness the Flux-like Film of Life
– In moods of extreme desire, be undisturbed.
– This so-called universe appears as a juggling, a picture show. To be happy, look upon it so.
– Oh beloved, put attention neither on pleasure nor on pain, but between these.
– Objects and desires exist in me as in others. So accepting, let them be transformed.

#38: Toward the Authentic Being

#39: From the Wave to the Cosmic Ocean
– As waves come with water and flames with fire, so the universal waves with us.
– Wherever your mind is wandering, internally or externally, at this very place, this.
– When vividly aware through some particular sense, keep in the awareness.

#40: Sudden Enlightenment and Its Obstacles

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#41: Be a Witness, Not a Judge
– At the start of sneezing, during fright, in anxiety, above a chasm, flying in battle, in extreme curiosity, at the beginning of hunger, at the end of hunger, be uninterruptedly aware.
– The purity of other teachings is an impurity to us. In reality, know nothing as pure or impure.

#42: Alertness through Tantra — Not Principles

#43: Finding the Changeless Through the Changing
– Be the unsame same to friend as to stranger, in honor and dishonor.
– Here is the sphere of change, change, change. Through change consume change.

#44: Tantra’s Secrets of Love and Liberation

#45: Remaining with the Real
– As a hen mothers her chicks, mother particular knowings, particular doings, in reality.
– Since, in truth, bondage and freedom are relative, these words are only for those terrified with the universe. This universe is a reflection of minds. As you see many suns in water from one sun, so see bondage and liberation.

#46: The Tantric Way to Freedom from Desires

#47: Tantric Meditation with Light Techniques
– Consider your essence as light rays from center to center up the vertebrae, and so rises “livingness” in you.
– Or in the spaces between, feel this as lightning.
– Feel the cosmos as a translucent ever-living presence.

#48: The Potentiality of the Seed

#49: Conscious Doing
– In summer when you see the entire sky endlessly clear enter such clarity.
– Shakti, see all space as if already absorbed in your own head in the brilliance.
– Waking, sleeping, dreaming, know you as light.

#50: Moving to the Roots

#51: Coming Back to Existence
– In rain during a black night enter that blackness as the form of forms.
– When a moonless rainy night is not present, close eyes and find blackness before you. Opening eyes, see blackness. So faults disappear forever.
– Wherever your attention alights, at this very point, experience.

#52: Entering This Moment

#53: From Death to Deathlessness
– Focus on fire rising through your form from the toes up until the body burns to ashes but not you.
– Meditate on the make-believe world as burning to ashes and become being above human.
– As, subjectively, letters flow into words and words into sentences, and as, objectively, circles flow into worlds and worlds into principles, find at last these converging in our being.

#54: The Fire of Awareness

#55: Only the Unreal Dissolves
– Feel: My thought, i-ness, internal organs — Me.
– Before desire and before knowing, how can I say I am? Consider. Dissolve in the beauty.

#56: Discovering Emptiness

#57: Searching for Freedom
– Toss attachment for body aside, realizing I am everywhere. One who is everywhere is joyous.
– Thinking no thing will limited-self unlimit.

#58: Go Beyond Karma

#59: Watching from the Hills
– Suppose you contemplate something beyond perception, beyond grasping, beyond not being. — You.
– I am existing. This is mine. This is this. Oh beloved, even in such know illimitably.

#60: Liberate Yourself from Yourself

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#61: Techniques to Become One with the Whole
– Each thing is perceived through knowing. The self shines in space through knowing. Perceive one being as knower and known.
– Beloved, at this moment let, mind, knowing, breath, form, be included.

#62: Right Now Is the Goal

#63: No Map to Follow
– Touching eyeballs as a feather, lightness between them opens into heart and there permeates the cosmos.
– Kind devi, enter etheric presence pervading far above and below your form.

#64: Choicelessness Is Bliss

#65: Life is a Mystery, Not a Problem
– Put mindstuff in such inexpressible fineness above, below and in your heart.
– Consider any area of your present form as limitlessly spacious.

#66: Enlightenment – The Most Ordinary

#67: Go Beyond Mind and Matter
– Feel your substance, bones, flesh, blood, saturated with the cosmic essence.
– Feel the fine qualities of creativity permeating your breasts’ and assuming delicate configurations.

#68: If you get Serious you Lose the Point

#69: You Are Unknown to Yourself
– Abide in some place endlessly spacious, clear of trees, hills, habitations. Thence comes the end of mind pressures.
– Consider the plenum to be your own body of bliss.

#70: Suffer the Pain of Aloneness

#71: Forget the Periphery
– In any position gradually pervade an area between the armpits into great peace.
– Feel yourself as pervading all directions, far, near.

#72: Falling in Love with an Enlighthened Person

#73: Fear of Transformation
– The appreciation of objects and subjects is the same for an enlightened as for an unenlightened person. The former has one greatness: he remains in the subjective mood, not lost in things.
– Believe omniscient, omnipotent, pervading.

#74: The Greater the Sensitivity, The Greater the Detachment

#75: Seek the Rhythm of Opposites
– Image spirit simultaneously within and around you until the entire universe spiritualizes.
– With your entire consciousness in the very start of desire, of knowing, know.
– O shakti, each particular perception is limited, disappearing in omnipotence.
– In truth forms are inseparate. Inseparate are omnipresent being and your own form. Realize each as made of this consciousness.

#76: Life is Sex Energy

#77: Become Each Being
– Feel the consciousness of each person as your own consciousness. So, leaving aside concern for self, become each being.
– This consciousness exists as each being, and nothing else exists.
– This consciousness is the spirit of guidance of each one. Be this one.

#78: The Inner Guide

#79: Shunyawad – The Philosophy of Emptiness
– Suppose your passive form to be an empty room with walls of skin — empty.
– Gracious one, play. The universe is an empty shell wherein your mind frolics infinitely.
– Sweet hearted one, meditate on knowing and not-knowing, existing and not-existing. Then leave both aside that you may be.
– Enter space, supportless, eternal, still.

#80: All and Nothing Mean the Same