Introducing to you "The book of secrets" by Osho (112 meditations techniques)

[Nightwise]

Hi everybody. I want to share with all of you "The book of Secrets" by Osho which contain 112 meditation techniques. According to Osho himself, every person that reads this book (or any person at all for that matter) must have at least one technique that works really well for them.

Ordinarily, we don't really think so much about all the different ways we could engage with what we call "meditation". Usually, people just think of sitting still and focusing on the breath as the thing that would define "meditation".

Whilst obviously that is one form of meditation, one might argue that perhaps that technique isn't suitable or at least not optimal for everybody. If that doesn't work for you, there are literally 111 different choices that Osho offers in this book that you can choose from. You might be surprised about what the technique is that works best for you.

Personally I'm contemplating trying out one of these techniques every day for 112 days in a row. Then I might even try to do all 112 again because sometimes a first impression can be misleading due to a variety of possible reasons. I'd also like to randomize the order in which I do the meditations in by randomizing a list of 112 numbers to keep it more interesting for me. I'm also considering if I want to use AI to speak to me whatever is being written in the book because I often prefer something to listen to than something to read. But I haven't really made my decision just yet if I really want to commit to all of the meditations.

Osho has also said that it is possible that some people may have so much 'garbage' and restlessness within them that none of these meditation techniques would work. in that case, he recommends people try his "Dynamic Meditation" (which interestingly isn't part of these 112 meditations). I'm sure you can find out how that works by just googling it.

Where can you find the book? Well, you can of course try to buy a copy of it online, but you can also download an EPUB file 

I found the following link where you can download the full book (it's an extremely long book):

https://dokumen.pub/the-book-of-secrets-112-meditations-to-discover-the-mystery-within-9780312650605-9780880507707-0880507705-0312650604.html

I believe Osho himself wanted content like this to be free to access to anyone, so in no way am I crossing an ethical (and probably not even lawful) boundary of any sorts by directing you to a page where you can download it for free.

I would recommend reading the Introduction and Preface of this book, as this gives some context as to how the contents of this book should be understood and applied.

Below is the exhaustive list of all the 112 meditation techniques. Maybe just looking at the single-sentence description you already see one that resonates with you. You can find this list at page 1573-1577 (and you can find in which chapters these meditations belong at page 6-13)

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List of Meditations

1. Watch the gap between two breaths

2. Watch the turning point between two breaths

3. Watch the fusion point of two breaths

4. Be aware when breathing stops

5. Focus your attention on the third eye

6. Focus on the gap during your daily activities

7. A technique to be aware in dreams

8. Watch the turning point with devotion

9. Lie down as dead. Stare without blinking. Suck something and become the sucking.

10. Become the caress

11. Close your senses, become stone-like

12. Let yourself become weightless

13. Concentrate totally on one object

14. Put your awareness on your spine

15. Close all the openings of your head

16. Absorb the senses in your heart

17. Do not choose, keep in the middle

18. Look lovingly at an object

19. Sit on your buttocks only

20. Meditate in a moving vehicle

21. Concentrate on a pain in your body

22. Look at your past, disidentified

23. Feel an object and become it

24. Watch your moods

25. Stop!

26. Face any desire

27. Exhaust yourself and drop to the ground

28. Imagine yourself losing all energy

29. Devote yourself

30. Close the eyes and stop their movement

31. Look at an object as a whole

32. Look at an object as if for the first time

33. Look into the limitless sky

34. A secret method

35. Look into a deep well

36. Withdraw yourself completely

37. Beyond words and sounds

38. Feel yourself in the center of sounds

39. Intone a sound and become it

40. Listen to a fading sound

41. Listen to a stringed instrument

42. Use sound as a passage toward feeling

43. Focus your mind on the tongue

44. A method for those with a sensitive ear

45. Intone a word ending in “AH”

46. Closing ears and contracting rectum

47. Use your name as a mantra

48. In the sex act, do not seek the release

49. Shaking in sex

50. Make love without the partner

51. When joy arises, become it

52. Eat and drink consciously

53. Self-remembering

54. Feel the satisfaction

55. Be aware of the gap between waking and sleep

56. Think of the world as an illusion

57. Be undisturbed by desires

58. See the world as a drama

59. Stay in the middle between two polarities

60. Acceptance

61. Experience existence as wave-ing

62. Use mind as the door to meditation

63. Be aware who is sensing

64. At the beginning of a strong sensation, be aware

65. Do not judge

66. Be aware of that which never changes in you

67. Remember that everything changes

68. Be hope-less

69. Go beyond bondage and freedom

70. Visualize light rays rising up your spine

71. Visualize a spark of light jumping from one chakra to the next

72. Feel the presence of the ever-living existence

73. Become the clarity of the cloudless sky

74. Feel the whole universe in your head

75. Remember yourself as light

76. Dissolve into darkness

77. Bringing out the inner darkness

78. Develop pure attentiveness

79. Focus on fire

80. Imagine the whole world burning

81. Everything converges in your being

82. Feel, don’t think

83. Change your focus to the gaps

84. Detach yourself from your body

85. Thinking no thing

86. Imagine the unimaginable

87. Feel “I am”

88. Know the knower and the known

89. Include everything in your being

90. Touch your eyes lightly

91. Experience your etheric body

92. Be aware of the moments of no-thought

93. Consider the body limitless

94. Feel yourself saturated

95. Concentrate on the breasts, or on the root of the penis

96. Look into unlimited space

97. Fill endless space with your bliss body

98. Feel the peace in your heart

99. Expand in all directions

100. Remain detached

101. Believe that you are all-powerful

102. Imagine spirit within and without

103. Do not fight with desire

104. The limits of perception

105. Realize the oneness of existence

106. Become each being

107. Know only consciousness exists

108. Become your own inner guide

109. Feel your body as empty

110. Be playful in activity

111. Beyond knowing and not-knowing

112. Enter the space within

 

Edited October 20 by Nightwise

[Buck Edwards]

I just read this a few weeks ago. It's nice. 

[Rafael Thundercat]

113 techniques. The one missing is : Inject 5MeoMalt up your butt and Surrender. 

Ok, Forgive Shiva and Osho for forgetting that one, was not Avaliable for them yet.

[Thought Art]

@Rafael Thundercat

Shiva was the OG. 

[Ishanga]

1 hour ago, Rafael Thundercat said:

113 techniques. The one missing is : Inject 5MeoMalt up your butt and Surrender. 

Ok, Forgive Shiva and Osho for forgetting that one, was not Avaliable for them yet.

I think there are actually 114 ways, but two of the ways (which are not on the list, and the list is not part of the 112 as they are not necessarily techniques, but systems I believe), are not usually accessable to normals like us, they have to do with chakras outside of the physical body I think..

Don't think of Chakras necessarily just as points on the body like pressure points, they represent certain dimensions of life, intensities of life experience and so forth...

 

Edited October 20 by Ishanga

[Husseinisdoingfine]

I read the book. The book is a million times better than The Holy Bible, but sadly, no where near as famous.

[Heaven]

Can you change your base level of consciousness with meditation? I know that if you don’t actively practice things go back to normal. I wonder if its possible 

[Nightwise]

On 20/10/2024 at 11:36 PM, Heaven said:

Can you change your base level of consciousness with meditation? I know that if you don’t actively practice things go back to normal. I wonder if its possible 

I think so. But I think setting a clear intention for yourself to live life consciously and in alignment with Truth, Love and God will certainly also raise your base level of consciousness with or without meditation

[Schizophonia]

Osho didn't success to cure his health problems.  

Edited October 28 by Schizophonia

[Ishanga]

1 hour ago, Schizophonia said:

Osho didn't success to cure his health problems.  

This was part of his master plan, his death made him that much more famous and thus spread his teachings and sharing's, simple strategy:)

[Schizophonia]

56 minutes ago, Ishanga said:

This was part of his master plan, his death made him that much more famous and thus spread his teachings and sharing's, simple strategy:)

Becoming immortal, or developing different sidhis in general wouldn't be way more efficient ? 

Or maybe it's because a such even is still forbidden in my actual paradigm, frequency, egregor, call this like you want.

Edited October 28 by Schizophonia

[Nilsi]

Lovely.