The Book of the Secrets
    Vol. 1 (of 5)

    (prev. titled Vigyan Bhairav Tantra)
    Shiva's 112 techniques of meditation

    by Osho

    16 talks given live   Oct.-Nov. 1972
    Bombay, India
    Hindu mystic that Osho talks about in this
    book:

    Shiva
Audio mp3 -- Discourse 3 complete from The
Book of Secrets, Vol. 1.  Osho talk in English.
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         DEVI ASKS:

    OH SHIVA, WHAT IS YOUR REALITY?

    WHAT IS THIS WONDER-FILLED UNIVERSE?

    WHAT CONSTITUTES SEED?

    WHO CENTERS THE UNIVERSAL WHEEL?

    WHAT IS THIS LIFE BEYOND FORM
    PERVADING FORMS?

    HOW MAY WE ENTER IT FULLY, ABOVE
    SPACE AND TIME, NAMES AND
    DESCRIPTIONS?

    LET MY DOUBTS BE CLEARED!


    Some introductory points. First, the world of
    VIGYANA BHAIRAVA TANTRA is not intellectual,
    it is not philosophical.

    Doctrine is meaningless to it. It is concerned
    with method, with technique -- not with
    principles at all. The word `tantra' means
    technique, the method, the path. So it is not
    philosophical -- note this. It is not concerned
    with intellectual problems and inquiries. It is not
    concerned with the "why" of things, it is
    concerned with "how"; not with what is truth, but
    how the truth can be attained.

    TANTRA means technique. So this treatise is a
    scientific one. Science is not concerned with
    why, science is concerned with how. That is the
    basic difference between philosophy and
    science. Philosophy asks, "Why this existence?"
    Science asks, "How this existence?" The
    moment you ask the question, how?, method,
    technique, become important. Theories become
    meaningless; experience becomes the center.

    Tantra is science, tantra is not philosophy...

                                                     – Osho
                   The Book of the Secrets, Vol. 1, ch. 1
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Chapter Titles

(Vol. 1 includes Chapters 1-16 of complete 5
Vol., 80 chapter series)

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
    The Book of the Secrets, Vol. 1

    Chinese pinyin:
    Mimi zhi shu -- Di yi juan

    Chinese traditional:
    秘密之書  第一卷

    Chinese simplified:
    秘密之书  第一卷
print book -- translation:
(#1, Vol. 1, Sec. 1)
Chinese traditional characters
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print book -- translation:
(#2, Vol 1, Sec. 2)
Chinese traditional characters
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