The Book of Secrets

Now all in one volume for the first time!

Osho's contemporary interpretation of the secret teachings of the 4000-year-old Vigyan Bhairav Tantra is now collected all in one impressive volume.

Osho goes line by line through each of the mysterious teachings that were first made known in the West by Paul Reps in the last chapter of his book, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. In the process, we learn that these verses are, in fact, highly condensed, telegraphic instructions for 112 different meditation techniques.

notes

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).

Subsequently (1991) published as Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, First Series and Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Second Series (40 discourses each). Both volumes were also available as a boxed set, Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, which included a deck of 112 cards to represent the various meditations.

Please refer to these two volumes if you want to read this book online.

time period of Osho's original talks/writings

Oct 1, 1972 to Nov 8, 1973 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters

preface and 80 chapters   (see table of contents)

editions

	The Book of Secrets Vigyan Bhairav Tantra The Science of Meditation A contemporary approach to 112 meditations described in the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra' Year of publication : 1998 Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin ISBN 0-312-18058-6 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 1139 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : First St. Martin's Griffin edition: April 1998. Copyright © 1974 Osho International Foundation Size : 218 x 197 x 55 mm Editing by Ma Shivam Suvarna, B.A., Ma Nirgun, B.A., M.S.W. Typesetting by Ma Krishna Gopa Design by Sw Deva Anugito and Ma Krishna Gopa Sutras from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps with permission of Charles E. Tuttle Co.Inc. Contains an indexed list of the 112 Meditations Without cover.
	The Book of Secrets Year of publication : 2007 Publisher : Osho Media International ISBN 8172612176 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 1094 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes :
	The Book of Secrets 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within Year of publication : 2010 Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin ISBN 0312650604 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 1328 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : "New and Revised Edition" Includes a DVD
	The Book of Secrets 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within Year of publication : 2010 Publisher : Pan Macmillan Australia ISBN 9780312650605 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 1152 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : Includes a DVD
	The Book of Secrets 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within Year of publication : 2012 Publisher : Osho Media International ISBN 978-0-88050-770-7 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 1327 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : E Edition notes : Revised edition.

table of contents

edition 2012 chapter titles		discourses
		event	location	duration	media
	Preface	The Last Testament (Vol 3) ~ 19, q.3
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 Watch the Gap Between Two Breaths Watch the Turning Point Between Two Breaths Watch the Fusion Point of Two Breaths Be Aware when Breathing Stops	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 Focus Your Attention on the Third Eye Focus on the Gap During Your Daily Activities A Technique to Be Aware in Dreams Watch the Turning Point with Devotion Lie down as Dead. Stare Without Blinking. Suck Something and Become the Sucking	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 Become the Caress Close Your Senses, Become Stone-like Let Yourself Become Weightless	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 Concentrate Totally on One Object Put Your Awareness on Your Spine	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 Close All the Openings of Your Head Absord the Senses in Your Heart Do Not Choose, Keep in the Middle	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 Look Lovingly at an Object Sit on Your Buttocks Only Meditate in a Moving Vehicle Concentrate on a Pain in Your Body	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 Look at Your Past, Dis-identified Feel an Object and Become It Watch Your Moods	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 Stop! Face Any Desire Exhaust Yourself and Drop to the Ground	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 Imagine Yourself Losing All Energy Devote Yourself	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 Close the Eyes and Stop Their Movement Look at an Object as a Whole Look at an Object as if for the First Time	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 Look into the Limitless Sky A Secret Method Look into a Deep Well Withdraw Yourself Completely	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 Words to Being Beyond Words and Sounds Feel Yourself in the Center of Sounds	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 Intone a Sound and Become It Listen to a Fading Sound Listen to a Stringed Instrument	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 Use Sound as a Passage Toward Feeling Focus Sound Your Mind on the Tongue A Method for Those with a Sensitive Ear	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 Intone a Word Ending in "AH" Closing Ears and Contacring Rectum Use Your Name as a Mantra	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 In the Sex Act, Do Not Seek the Release Shaking in Sex Make Love Without the Partner When Joy Arises, Become It Eat and Drink Consciously	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 Self-remembering Feel the Satisfaction Be Aware of the Gap Between Waking and Sleep Think of the World as an Illusion	24 Feb 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 36min	audio
36	From Illusion to Reality	25 Feb 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 23min	audio
37	Techniques to Witness the Flux-like Film of Life Be Undisturbed by Desires See the World as a Drama Stay in the Middle Between Two Polarities Acceptance	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 Experience Existence as Wave-ing Use Mind as the Door to Meditation Be Aware Who is Sensing	28 Feb 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 25min	audio
40	Sudden Enlightenment and Its Obstacles	1 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 30min	audio
41	Tantric Methods for Awareness and NonJudgment At the Beginning of a Strong Sensation, Be Aware Do Not Judge	25 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 29min	audio
42	Alertness Through Tantra	26 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 24min	audio
43	Finding the Changeless Through the Changing Be Aware of That Which Never Changes in You Remember That Everything Changes	27 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 31min	audio
44	Secrets of Love and Liberation	28 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 27min	audio
45	Remaining with the Real Be Hope-less Go Beyond Bondage and Freedom	29 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	unknown	missing
46	The Tantric Way to Freedom from Desires	30 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 25min	audio
47	Tantric Meditation Using Light Visualize Light Rays Rising up Your Spine Visualize a Spark of Light Jumping from One Chakra to the Next Feel the Presence of the Ever-living Existentce	31 Mar 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 31min	audio
48	The Potentiality of the Seed	1 Apr 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 20min	audio
49	Conscious Doing Become the Clarity of the Cloudless Sky Feel the Whole Universe in Your Head Remember Yourself as Light	22 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 32min	audio
50	Moving to the Roots	23 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 23min	audio
51	Coming Back to Existence Dissolve into Darkness Bringing out the Inner Develop Pure Attentiveness	24 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 32min	audio
52	Entering This Moment	27 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 29min	audio
53	From Death to Deathlessness Focus on Fire Imagine the Whole World Burning Everything Converges in Your Being	28 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 28min	audio
54	The Fire of Awareness	29 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 22min	audio
55	Only the Unreal Dissolves Feel, Don't Think Change Your Focus to the Gaps	30 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 25min	audio
56	Discovering Emptiness	31 May 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 20min	audio
57	You Are Everywhere Detach Yourself from Your Body Thinking No Thing	28 Jun 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 33min	audio
58	Go Beyond Karma	29 Jun 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 27min	audio
59	Watch from the Hill Imagine the Unimaginable Feel "I Am"	30 Jun 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 26min	audio
60	Liberate Yourself from Yourself	1 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 24min	audio
61	Techniques to Become One with the Whole Know the Knower and the Known Include Everything in Your Being	2 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 17min	audio
62	Right Now Is the Goal	3 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 19min	audio
63	Start Creating Yourself Touch Your Eyes Lightly Experience Your Etheric Body	4 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 24min	audio
64	Choicelessness Is Bliss	5 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 20min	audio
65	Destroy the Limits Be Aware of the Moments of No-thought Consider the Body Limitless	25 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 28min	audio
66	A Buddha Is a Nobody	26 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 22min	audio
67	Go Beyond Mind and Matter Feel Yourself Saturated Concentrate on the Breasts, or on the Root of the Penis	27 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 35min	audio
68	Energy Enjoys Itself Playing	28 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 26min	audio
69	You Are Unknown to Yourself Look into Unlimited Space Fill Endless Space with Your Bliss Body	29 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 35min	audio
70	Suffer the Pain of Aloneness	30 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 25min	audio
71	Forget the Periphery Feel the Peace in Your Heart Expand in All Directions	31 Jul 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 30min	audio
72	Start Living in Insecurity	1 Aug 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 18min	audio
73	Fear of Transformation Goes Deep Remain Detached Believe That you Are All-powerful	1 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 40min	audio
74	Sensitivity Is Awareness	2 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 34min	audio
75	Seek the Rhythm of Opposites Imagine Spirit Within and Without Do not Fight with Desire The Limits of Perception Realize the Oneness of Existence	3 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 31min	audio
76	Life Is Sex Energy	4 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 33min	audio
77	Become Each Being Become Each Being Know Only Consciousness Exists Become Your Own Inner Guide	5 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 31min	audio
78	The Inner Guide	6 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 23min	audio
79	The Philosophy of Emptiness Feel Your Body as Empty Be Playful in Activity Beyond Knowing and Not-knowing Enter the Space Within	7 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 39min	audio
80	All and Nothing Mean the Same	8 Nov 1973 pm	Woodlands, Bombay	1h 26min	audio