The Book of Secrets: Keys to Love and Meditation by Osho Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Book of Secrets: Keys to Love and Meditation
Book Review: Shows how to transform sex-consc.into super-consciousness.
Summary: 5 Stars
The book, one of the ancient texts on Tantra, contains a masterful commentary on 112 techniques of meditation by the enlightened mystic, Osho. He brings into focus the central point that, such as the physical science shows techniques to transform matter, Tantra shows techniques to transform the spirit. Tantra, as Osho explains, does not condemn sex, nor does it ask to indulge into it. Tantra merely shows ways to raise sex energy for experiencing the higher states of consciousness. The book is perhaps the first in acknowledging a woman's status as an independent inquirer. Parvati, the consort of Lord Shiva, asks him some of the most quintessential questions for unraveling the secrets of how meditation can bring about a complete mutation in human consciousness. Sex being the strongest desire there is, Shiva explains how the way of Tantra helps in understanding this desire and transcending it. Osho's insight is: "Tantra says, be aware of the desire; do not create any fight. Move into desire with full consciousness, and when you move into desire with full consciousness you transcend it."
Osho has provided an in-depth understanding of the differences between sex and Tantra, Tantra and Yoga, the views about sex in the East and the West, male and female polarity and how both can become mutually nourishing.
The core message of this incredible text on meditation is that, sex is essentially a mystery, it is a creative energy manifested in the entire universe. Tantra is helpful in the understanding of this energy and showing how to live a healthy and natural life with love and awareness. Osho's observation is: "...the days of tantra are coming. Sooner or later tantra will explode for the first time in the masses, because for the first time the time is ripe -- ripe to take sex naturally. It is possible that the explosion may come from the West, because Freud, Jung, Reich they have prepared the background. They did not know anything about tantra, but they have made the basic !ground for tantra to evolve."
Book Review: This book is where I found "it", the key to spiritual bliss
Summary: 5 Stars
I didn't need to adopt a new religion, nor even have a religion, nor take up strange practices. (Depsite the dramatic title.) The approach here is a method; Tantra is a method, not a belief. All that was needed was an open mind and the will to try something simple. Osho expresses himself in English very clearly and vigorously, there is no mystical-technical jargon/tedium! If it works for you, there's no strenuous effort! But you may feel like you've lost a backpack of rocks you never knew you carried. It worked for me before I got past 1/4 of the techniques (I read an earlier, partial edition.) It's been 6 years since then, and the benefit has endured and grown - not a flash in the pan. Yhere just aren't words to describe "it," you have to experience it.Book Review: The 'Bible' on TANTRA
Summary: 5 Stars
" He [Osho] proved somewhat prophetic when he told his followers in 1974, "The days of Tantra are coming. Sooner or later, Tantra will explode for the first time in the masses, because for the first time the time is ripe - ripe to take sex naturally."THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, December 7, 1998
Book Review: if there were a galaxy of stars.
Summary: 5 Stars
all of osho's books deserve more than 5 stars ,from the start to finish he is the one author i give myself to completely, not many have that type of intelligence. Anything he wrote is worthy of deep contemplation and study, as well as humourous as hell.Book Review: A Quantum Leap in Human Consciousness
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read The Book of the Secrets several times. These discourses of the Enlightened Mystic Osho are a real treasure. These 112 Tantra techniques are very poweful tools of transformation. First, just the reading transports you to a rarified realm of consciousness. I relish them again and again and find new meanings each time. To me, this is undoubtedly the Book Of The Millennium and a quantum leap in human consciousness. Chaitanya Keerti