| The Book of the Secrets Vol. 4 (of 5) Shiva's 112 techniques of meditation prev. titled Vigyan Bhairav Tantra (2 vol.); republished as The Book of Secrets (1 vol.) by Osho 16 talks given live May – July 1973 Bombay, India |
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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. As I look in your eyes, I never see you there -- as if you are absent. You exist absently, and this is the core of all suffering. You can be alive without being at all present, and if you are not present your existence will become a boredom. And this is what has happened. So when I look in your eyes I don't find you there. You have yet to come, you have yet to be. The situation is there, and the possibility is there -- you can be there any moment -- but yet you are not. To become aware of this absence is to begin the journey towards meditation, towards transcendent. If you are aware that somehow you are missing... you exist but you don't know why, you don't know how, you don't know even who exists within you. This unawareness creates all suffering, because, unknowingly, whatsoever you do will bring suffering. It is not what you do that is basic; it is whether you do it with your presence or with your absence that is significant. Whatsoever you do, if you can do it with your total presence, your life will become ecstatic; it will be a bliss. If you do something without your presence there, absently, your life will be a suffering -- bound to be... – Osho The Book of the Secrets, Vol. 4, ch. 1 |
Chinese pinyin: Mimi zhi shu -- Di si juan Chinese traditional: 秘密之書 第四卷 Chinese simplified: 秘密之书 第四卷 |


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