The Book of Secrets: Keys to Love and Meditation | 
 enlarge | Author: Osho
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin Ed
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Pages: 1152
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 7.4 x 2.1
ISBN: 0312180586
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.93
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Publication Date: April 15, 1998
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In this comprehensive and practical guide, the secrets of the ancient science of Tantra become available to a contemporary audience for the first time. Confined to small, hidden mystery schools for centuries, and often misunderstood and misinterpreted today. Tantra is not just a collection of techniques to enhance sexual experience. As Osho shows in these pages, it is a complete science of self-realizatoin, based on the cumulative wisdom of centuries of exploration into the meaning of life and consciousness. Tantra-the very word means "technique"-is a set of powerful, transformative tools that can be used to bring new meaning andjoy to every aspect of our daily lives.
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The book of secrets by Osho May 6, 2008
This is the best book I have ever read about the Eastern tradition, Vedic tradition. It contains 112 meditation techniques given by Shiva to Devi. The techniques are well detailed that one can just begin on their own at home. This book also answers any questions one may have, may it be about sex,desires just name it. It is in this book.
I am so grateful to Osho for giving this knowledge to the world. So far I have tried some techniques and already something is happening. If you are serious about inner transformation, this book is for you.
OSHO -- vigyan bhairav tantra exposed April 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is Oshos commentary of the Shiva Sutras...it is very controversial, and I really love this book. Its like Osho is with you when you open it up and read any page...did i mention its over 1000 pages. Read with a really open mind, because not everything this wondrous man says will make you feel good, but it will make you FEEL ...what is good and bad anyway? This book is lovely, sweet, sour,human,god-like,nice,mean, confusing,enlightening. Makes you realize you are a human and you will never have NO ego. Osho has stirred alot of american "yogis" up, because they suppress their thoughts, diet, and desires. It teaches to have all these things but in moderation. Total non-duality. So REAL. If you are "up in the clouds" this book wil brng you right down to earth and see who you REALLY are.
A book full of wisdom February 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I try to avoid "feel-good" New Age books, mainly because I know that life is not always about feeling good, and I don't want to believe in, or practise, lies and deception, especially towards my own self. Who can want to deceive their own selves?
If you're a truth seeker, or have felt that at many points in your life you have had truths revealed to you that others don't seem to either know or care about; if you feel akin to Indian ways of thought and peaceful living, yet you don't want to repress your true emotions and feelings, and feel that it is wrong to do so; if you want a book that doesn't preach lies and deception based on New Age prattle, then this book is for you.
This is a very good book that is based on Tantra, not Yoga. According to the author, Yoga is more about repressing one's self. I have never believed that repressing anger or strong emotions will heal anybody, and I find such things hypocritical. While I believe in love and peace, let's face it, it's still an imperfect world. To live in such a world, we must go beyond appearances, and go beyond the mind, as the author claims.
I am not good at putting spiritual thoughts in words, but if you can relate to anything I am writing here, then be sure to pick this book up. It certainly is full of timeless wisdom.
The Truth October 14, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Tantra is the most scientific book of wisdom and spirituality that has ever existed. It has become my "bible" though I detest all organized religions and deny the existence of a personal god. The knowledge that the Tantra imparts is precious, timeless because it is drawn from true experience; its 112 techniques(of which sex is only a small part), are all workable hypothesis that can be tested--should you have the mind. Interpreted correctly, the Tantra can never harm and can only help. A work of extremely subtle genius, the book is disarming in its simplistic presentation of matters of tremendous depth. If one is not humble, one will surely miss the point. Genius must be brought to any effort to take from the Tantra what it so innocently offers. Misinterpretation is the very real danger. And so we are blessed to have Osho open these ancient pages and analyze each Sutra (sermon). He senses instinctively what is being said here and how it directly applies to our current misery--"modern" man--same old monkey. The fearful human mind that the Tantra addresses is now rushing about in cars, banging away at computers and amassing nuclear weapons. In Osho we have a fearless intricately comprehensive intellect warmed with insight and compassion. Osho's style is deliberately breezy, almost silly sometimes, because Osho's is a deeply, frighteningly serious mind. If you have the courage to follow him in his incisive reasoning and consider his astonishing conclusions--you begin to sense that there's much more to Osho than meets the eye, that God has outdone Shakespeare in this wisest of fools, this Osho who seems always to be grinning just a bit, laughing at the whole damn thing. Agree or disagree with him, we are fortunate, better off, for having encountered Osho, for having read him.
If I could only own one book, this would be it. September 16, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Osho's Book of Secrets is truly a remarkable text and in many ways is the real bible that should be left in every hotel room. If I was only allowed to have one book on my shelf, this would be it.
The book is a transcription of Osho's talks on the 112 Techniques of meditation which are as old as yoga itself. These are the 112 ways in which one can transcend their mind and enter the bliss and truth of meditation. For every person there is at least one technique that will work to unlock the stress of the mind and allow the person to enter into meditation. The beauty of this book is the simplicity of explanation which makes what could be an esoteric subject easily accessible to anyone.
I have been on a serious path of meditation and yoga for a few years now, having recently returned from a 10 day silent meditation retreat in India, and this is the book I would recommend to all that are looking to try meditation. As my practice has gone deeper, my own understanding of the text has deepened with it. All of these techniques are there to try, not just to read and understand intellectually. They are there to transform you, to help you attain to your inner being and blissfulness.
Many other yoga and meditation books spend too much time on ancient texts and commentary and tend to make a simple subject seem overly complex and esoteric. Not this one. Read this if you want to understand the real deal of what meditation is and give it a try for yourself.
5 stars!
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