Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Two Vol. Boxed Set

An in-depth and practical explanation of the 112 meditation techniques of Shiva, on which the science of Tantra is based. Conveniently arranged according to different senses and chakras, there are step-by-step meditation techniques for every man, woman and child. Techniques include: watching the gap between two breaths; watching one's moods; being aware of oneself as the one who senses; focusing attention on the third eye; making love without a partner. Meditation techniques for every possible facet of day-to-day life and an invaluable companion for every meditator.

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2-Volume Boxed Set with 112-Meditation Cards Deck

Contains:

• Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, First Series
• Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Second Series
• Vigyan Bhairav Tantra 112-Card Deck

The original series of 80 discourses were simply called "Vigyan Bhairav Tantra".

For publication as books they were divided up into 5 volumes, called the The Book of the Secrets, Volume 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 (16 discourses each).

Later published as a single volume The Book of Secrets.

time period of Osho's original talks/writings

Oct 1, 1972 to Nov 8, 1973 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters

80   (see table of contents)

editions

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Two Vol. Boxed Set The Book of the Secrets: A New Commentary Year of publication : 1991 Publisher : The Rebel Publishing House, Germany ISBN  : None Number of pages : 1137 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : © Friends of Secrets, Cologne, Zurich, Sydney. See discussion on ISBN.

table of contents

edition 1991 chapter titles		discourses
		event	location	duration	media
	Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, First Series
1	The World of Tantra	1 Oct 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 44min	audio
2	The Path of Yoga and the Path of Tantra	2 Oct 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 39min	audio
3	Breath - A Bridge to the Universe	3 Oct 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 30min	audio
4	Overcoming the Deceptions of the Mind	4 Oct 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 34min	audio
5	Five Techniques of Attentiveness	5 Oct 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 49min	audio
6	Devices to Transcend Dreaming	6 Oct 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 21min	audio
7	Techniques to Put You at Ease	7 Oct 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 34min	audio
8	Total Acceptance and Non-Division: The Meaning of Tantric Purity	8 Oct 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 34min	audio
9	Techniques for Centering	12 Nov 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 44min	audio
10	Self-actualization: The Basic Need	13 Nov 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 29min	audio
11	Techniques to Penetrate the Inner	14 Nov 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 30min	audio
12	Beyond Mind to the Source	15 Nov 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 17min	audio
13	Inner Centering	16 Nov 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 29min	audio
14	Changing the Direction of Energy	17 Nov 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 40min	audio
15	Seeing the Past as a Dream	18 Nov 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 26min	audio
16	Beyond the Sin of Unconsciousness	19 Nov 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 17min	audio
17	Several 'Stop' Techniques	8 Dec 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 37min	audio
18	Remaining with the Facts	9 Dec 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 30min	audio
19	A Technique for the Intellectual and a Technique for the Feeling Type	12 Dec 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 38min	audio
20	Ordinary Love and the Love of a Buddha	13 Dec 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 22min	audio
21	Three Looking Techniques	14 Dec 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 30min	audio
22	Unblocking the Third Eye	15 Dec 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 30min	audio
23	Several More Looking Methods	16 Dec 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 28min	audio
24	Doubt or Faith, Life or Death: The Bases of Different Paths	17 Dec 1972 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 38min	audio
25	From Words to Pure Sounds to Being	22 Jan 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 44min	audio
26	Acceptance of the Peaks and the Valleys	23 Jan 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 18min	audio
27	Soundlessness, Soundfulness and Total Awareness	24 Jan 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 26min	audio
28	Meditation: An Unburdening of Repressions	25 Jan 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 32min	audio
29	Methods for the Dropping of Mind	26 Jan 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 31min	audio
30	Surrendering in Sex and Surrendering to a Master	27 Jan 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 22min	audio
31	From Sound to Inner Silence	28 Jan 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 33min	audio
32	'No Fight' Is the Central Teaching	29 Jan 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 18min	audio
33	The Spirituality of the Tantric Sex Act	22 Feb 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 20min	audio
34	Cosmic Orgasm Through Tantra	23 Feb 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 14min	audio
35	Turning Inward Toward the Real	24 Feb 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 36min	audio
36	From Maya (Illusion) to Reality	25 Feb 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 23min	audio
37	Techniques to Witness the Fluxlike Film of Life	26 Feb 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 34min	audio
38	Toward the Authentic Being	27 Feb 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 27min	audio
39	From the Wave to the Cosmic Ocean	28 Feb 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 25min	audio
40	Sudden Enlightenment and Its Obstacles	1 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 30min	audio
	Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Second Series
1	Tantric Methods for Awareness and Non-Judgement	25 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 29min	audio
2	Alertness Through Tantra	26 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 24min	audio
3	Finding the Changeless Through the Changing	27 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 31min	audio
4	Secrets of Love and Liberation	28 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 27min	audio
5	Remaining with the Real	29 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	unknown	missing
6	The Tantric Way to Freedom from Desires	30 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 25min	audio
7	Tantric Meditation Using Light	31 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 31min	audio
8	The Potentiality of the Seed	1 Apr 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 20min	audio
9	Conscious Doing	22 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 32min	audio
10	Moving to the Roots	23 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 23min	audio
11	Coming Back to Existence	24 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 32min	audio
12	Entering This Moment	27 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 29min	audio
13	From Death to Deathlessness	28 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 28min	audio
14	The Fire of Awareness	29 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 22min	audio
15	Only the Unreal Dissolves	30 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 25min	audio
16	Discovering Emptiness	31 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 20min	audio
17	You Are Everywhere	28 Jun 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 33min	audio
18	Go Beyond Karma	29 Jun 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 27min	audio
19	Watch from the Hill	30 Jun 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 26min	audio
20	Liberate Yourself - From Yourself	1 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 24min	audio
21	Techniques to Become One with the Whole	2 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 17min	audio
22	Right Now Is the Goal	3 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 19min	audio
23	Start Creating Yourself	4 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 24min	audio
24	Choicelessness Is Bliss	5 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 20min	audio
25	Destroy the Limits	25 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 28min	audio
26	A Buddha Is a Nobody	26 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 22min	audio
27	Go Beyond Mind and Matter	27 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 35min	audio
28	Energy Enjoys Itself Playing	28 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 26min	audio
29	You Are Unknown to Yourself	29 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 35min	audio
30	Suffer the Pain of Aloneness	30 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 25min	audio
31	Forget the Periphery	31 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 30min	audio
32	Start Living in Insecurity	1 Aug 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 18min	audio
33	Fear of Transformation Goes Deep	1 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 40min	audio
34	Sensitivity Is Awareness	2 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 34min	audio
35	Seek the Rhythm of Opposites	3 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 31min	audio
36	Life Is Sex Energy	4 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 33min	audio
37	Become Each Being	5 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 31min	audio
38	The Inner Guide	6 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 23min	audio
39	The Philosophy of Emptiness	7 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 39min	audio
40	All and Nothing Mean the Same	8 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 26min	audio