About The Book of Secrets

112 Keys to the Mystery Within

In The Book of Secrets we are invited to experience and experiment with the games and
situations that everyday life brings through the tools of our senses. The 4000-year-old Vigyan
Bhairav Tantra is a compendium of highly condensed, telegraphic instructions for 112 different
awareness techniques that bring us into the present moment. Osho describes each technique in
detail, and explains how we can discover the best one for us and integrate it into our daily lives.
In this book, the secrets of the ancient science of Tantra become available to a contemporary
audience. 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
but is a complete science of self-realization, 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 and joy to
every aspect of our daily lives.
“These techniques, if followed, suddenly turn your mind. It comes to the present. And when the
mind comes to the present it stops, it is no more. You cannot be a mind in the present, that is
impossible.” Osho

Chapter Titles
Chapter 1: The World of Tantra
Chapter 2: The Path of Yoga and the Path of Tantra
Chapter 3: Breath - A Bridge to the Universe
Chapter 4: Overcoming the Deceptions of the Mind
Chapter 5: Five Techniques of Attentiveness
Chapter 6: Devices to Transcend Dreaming
Chapter 7: Techniques to Put You at Ease
Chapter 8: Total Acceptance and Non-Division: The Meaning of Tantric Purity
Chapter 9: Techniques for Centering
Chapter 10: Self Actualisation: The Basic Need
Chapter 11: Techniques to Penetrate the Inner
Chapter 12: Beyond Mind to the Source
Chapter 13: Inner Centering
Chapter 14: Changing the Direction of Energy
Chapter 15: Seeing the Past as a Dream
Chapter 16: Beyond the Sin of Unconsciousness
Chapter 17: Several Stop Techniques
Chapter 18: Remaining with the Facts
Chapter 19: A Technique for the Intellectual and a Technique for the Feeling Type
Chapter 20: Ordinary Love and the Love of a Buddha
Chapter 21: Three Looking Techniques
Chapter 22: Unblocking the Third Eye
Chapter 23: Several More Looking Methods
Chapter 24: Doubt or Faith, Life or Death: The Bases of Different Paths
Chapter 25: From Words to Pure Words to Being
Chapter 26: Acceptance of the Peaks and the Valleys
Chapter 27: Soundlessness, Soundfulness and Total Awareness
Chapter 28: Meditation: An Unburdening of Repressions
Chapter 29: Methods for the Dropping of Mind
Chapter 30: Accept Life in Its Totality
Chapter 31: From Sound to Inner Silence
Chapter 32: "No Fight" Is the Central Teaching
Chapter 33: The Spirituality of the Tantric Sex Act
Chapter 34: Cosmic Orgasm through Tantra
Chapter 35: Turning Inward toward the Real
Chapter 36: From Maya (Illusion) to Reality
Chapter 37: Techniques to Witness the Fluxlike Film of Life
Chapter 38: Toward the Authentic Being
Chapter 39: From the Wave to the Cosmic Ocean
Chapter 40: Sudden Enlightenment and Its Obstacles6
Chapter 41: Tantric Methods for Awareness and Non-Judgement
Chapter 42: Alertness through Tantra
Chapter 43: Finding the Changeless through the Changing
Chapter 44: Secrets of Love and Liberation
Chapter 45: Remaining with the Real
Chapter 46: The Tantric Way to Freedom from Desires
Chapter 47: Tantric MeditationUsing Light
Chapter 48: The Potentiality of the Seed
Chapter 49: Conscious Doing
Chapter 50: Moving to the Roots
Chapter 51: Come Back to Existence9
Chapter 52: Entering This Moment
Chapter 53: From Death to Deathlessness
Chapter 54: The Fire of Awareness
Chapter 55: Only the Unreal Dissolves
Chapter 56: Discovering Emptiness
Chapter 57: You Are Everywhere
Chapter 58: Go Beyond Karma
Chapter 59: Watch from the Hill
Chapter 60: Liberate Yourself - From Yourself
Chapter 61: Techniques to Become One with the Whole
Chapter 62: Right Now Is the Goal
Chapter 63: Start Creating Yourself
Chapter 64: Choicelessness Is Bliss
Chapter 65: Destroy the Limits
Chapter 66: A Buddha Is Nobody
Chapter 67: Go Beyond Mind and Matter
Chapter 68: Energy Enjoys Itself Playing
Chapter 69: You Are Unknown to Yourself
Chapter 70: Suffer the Pain of Aloneness
Chapter 71: Forget the Periphery
Chapter 72: Start Living in Insecurity
Chapter 73: Fear of Transformation Goes Deep
Chapter 74: Sensitivity Is Awareness
Chapter 75: Seek the Rhythm of Opposites
Chapter 76: Life Is Sex Energy
Chapter 77: Become Each Being
Chapter 78: The Inner Guide
Chapter 79: The Philosophy of Emptiness
Chapter 80: All and Nothing Mean the Same

Excerpt from The Book of Secrets

ABOUT TANTRA: (from Chapter 1)
"Tantra says, accept whatsoever you are. This is the basic note -- total acceptance. And only
through total acceptance can you grow. Then use every energy you have.

How can you use them? Accept them, then find out what these energies are -- what is sex, what
is this phenomenon. We are not acquainted with it. We know many things about sex, taught by
others. We may have passed through the sex act, but with a guilty mind, with a suppressive
attitude, in haste, in a hurry. Something has to be done in order to become unburdened. The sex
act is not a loving act. You are not happy in it, but you cannot leave it. The more you try to leave
it, the more attractive it becomes. The more you want to negate it, the more you feel invited. You
cannot negate it, but this attitude to negate, to destroy, destroys the very mind, the very
awareness, the very sensitivity which can understand it. So sex goes on with no sensitivity into it.
Then you cannot understand it.

Only a deep sensitivity can understand anything; only a deep feeling, a deep moving into it, can
understand anything. You can understand sex only if you move in it as a poet moves amidst
flowers -- only then! If you feel guilty about flowers, you may pass through the garden, but you
will pass with closed eyes. And you will be in a hurry, in a deep, mad haste. Somehow you have
to go out of the garden. Then how can you be aware?

So tantra says, accept whatsoever you are. You are a great mystery of many multidimensional
energies. Accept it, and move with every energy with deep sensitivity, with awareness, with
love, with understanding. Move with it! Then every desire becomes a vehicle to go beyond it.
Then every energy becomes a help. And then this very world is nirvana, this very body is a
temple -- a holy temple, a holy place.