MEDITATION
TECHNIQUE
SECRETS
-Osho
”Buddhists learned from
Vigyan Bhairav. Sufis also have
such exercises; they are also
borrowed from Vigyan
Bhairav. Basically, this is the
source book of all techniques
which are known all over
the world."
- Osho, The Book of Secrets.
O
ne of the most ancient texts
and meditation manuals is
Shiva's 5000-year-old Vigyan
Bhairav Tantra, which is concerned
with how to go beyond the mind, to
attain glimpses of the consciousness
which exists apart from the mind. It
is here that one should not be
identified with the mind, and this is
the fallacy of the West; that we are
our minds. For us not to be
identified with our minds, to know
that the mind is only a moving
process, like walking, but not the
same as our consciousness, this is
the message of the Vigyan Bhairav
Tantra, the Ancient Indian text. And
all the 112 techniques of meditation
are not concerned with how the
mind operates, but rather are
concerned only about how to find
the door outside the mind to find
the open sky of consciousness.
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The Turning Point
With Devotion
The Eight technique:
The eighth technique: with utmost devotion, centre on
the two junctions of breath and know the knower.
T
here is a slight difference in the techniques -- slight
modifications. But though the differences are slight
in the techniques, for you they may be great. A
single word makes a great difference. With utmost devotion,
centre on the two junctions of breath. The incoming breath has
one junction where it turns, the outgoing breath has another
junction where it turns. With these two turnings -- and we
have discussed these turnings -- a slight difference is made:
The Book of
that is, slight in the technique, but
for the seeker it may be great. Only
one condition is added : with
utmost devotion -- and the whole
technique becomes different.
In the first form of it there was
no question of devotion, just a
scientific technique. You do it, and
it works. But there are people who
cannot do such dry, scientific
techniques. Those who are heartoriented, those who belong to the
world of devotion, for them a slight
difference has been made: with
utmost devotion, centre on the two
junctions of breath and know the
knower.
If you are not of the scientific
bent, of the scientific attitude, if you
are not a scientific mind, then try
this: with utmost devotion -- with
faith, love, trust -- centre on the two
junctions of breath and know the
knower. How to do this? How? You
can have devotion about someone:
about Krishna, about Christ you can
have devotion. But how can you
have devotion about yourself, about
this junction of breathing? The
phenomenon seems absolutely nondevotional. But that depends....
Tantra says that the body is the
temple. Your body is the temple of
the divine, the abode of the divine,
so do not treat your body as an
Tantra says that the body is
the temple
object. It is sacred, it is holy. And
while you are taking a breath in, it
is not only you who is taking the
breath, it is the divine within you.
You are eating, you are moving or
walking... Look at it in this way: it is
not you, but the divine moving in
you. Then the whole thing becomes
absolutely devotional.
It is said about many saints that
they love their bodies. They treat
their bodies as if their bodies
belong to their beloveds. You can
treat your body in this way or you
can treat it just like a mechanism -that again is an attitude. You can
treat it with guilt, sin; you can treat
it as something dirty; you can treat
it as something miraculous, as a
miracle; you can treat it as the
abode of the divine. It depends on
you. If you can treat your body as a
temple, then this technique will be
helpful: with utmost devotion...
Try it. While you are eating, try
it. Do not think that you are eating.
Think that it is the divine in you
who is eating, and look at the
change. You are eating the same
thing, you are the same, but
immediately everything becomes
different. You are giving the food to
the divine. You are taking a bath -- a
very ordinary, trivial thing -- but
change the attitude: feel that you
are giving a bath to the divine in
you. Then this technique will be
easy: with utmost devotion, centre on
the two junctions of breath and know
the knower.
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