The Chakra Book: Energy and Healing Power of the Subtle Body

by Osho

A comprehensive and in-depth discussion of thehuman energy centers known as chakras. Thebook offers a unique understanding of how thesecenters, also referred to as “subtle bodies” can beidentified and experienced, along with how theyare related to personal transformation and health.In this volume, Osho gives an overview of theEastern science of the subtle energy centers inthe human body that are sometimes known as“chakras.” It is a science that underlies traditionalChinese medicine, Indian Ayurveda, and the practiceof kundalini yoga, among other disciplinesthat recognize the deep connection between mindand body. Osho also shows how these same principlesapply to human psychological growth andmaturation, and the evolution of consciousness.Self-help, Spirituality, Psychology, Meditation,Esoteric, New Age, Health, Yoga. The title willespecially of interest to the large group of peopleinvolved with Yoga, as the book describes in simpleterms, using everyday experiences as examples,what underlies the Kundalini Yoga approach to thehuman energy system.The Chakra Book delivers the ‘esoteric science’and understanding in the context of personalgrowth and transformation.

Genres: Spirituality, Nonfiction, Health

216 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.

In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.

Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.

In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".

In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.

In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.

In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[

After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.

Reviews

[Jung]

1. The Root Chakra (Muladhara)
2. The Sacral Chakra (Svadhishthana)
3. The Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura)
4. The Heart Chakra (Anahata)
5. The Throat Chakra (Vishuddha)
6. The Third Eye Chakra (Ajna)
7. The Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)

[Turem · Rating 4 out of 5]

Birçok fikrini hem onayladığım hem de onaylamadığım bir yazar oldu. Ama kesinlikle bir şeyler katan bir kitap.

[Shikha Rawal · Rating 5 out of 5]

When you pick up an Osho book, you can't stop until you complete it.

This is one such book. Thoroughly encapsulating, explained with complete clarity and proper solutions in order to not only have information but experience the experience mentioned in the book !

[Antonio Bueno · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first thing Osho explains is that all the esoteric things (energy fields, chakras) should be experienced, because if you know about them from someone else, you will have expectations, and expectations can block the real experience.
This book is a very interesting reflection on the psychology of the chakras and the different psychological movement associated with it.
Osho argues that the first three chakras animal and the last three divine, the middle chakra (heart chakra) being the middle between earth and heaven. He explains how each chakra can be transcended to arrive at the ultimate

The first chakra is somatic (food): Pavlov and skinner were stuck in the first chakra because they thought we are only the body.
The second chakra is psychosomatic (power): Freudian psychoanalysis. Dreams are important but you have to go beyond dreams, only you can analyze your dreams, do it and move on.
The third chakra is psychological(sex): Adler with the inferiority complex, the will to power
The fourth chakra is psycho-spiritual (love): Jung, Assagioli, they are the first to accept the irrational, and this is where modern psychology stops.
The fifth chakra is spiritual (meditative love): Islam, Hinduism, Christianity,
The sixth chakra is spirituo-transcendental (love as a state of being): Yoga and other methods
The seventh chakra is transcendental (no-mind as a god): tantra, tao, and zen ( buddhas attitude, becoming a witness).
Basically, the journey of the chakras is a circular journey from the no-mind of a rock or a person who only eats, to the no-mind of a god or a person who only gives love.

He also gives an explanation of the different bodies or koshas and explains that spiritual movements have a different number of bodies because the number is just a map, in reality, there is no division, Osho says the 5 subtle bodies according to Patanjali make the most sense because 5 is a good number to describe them (not too few or too many).
What I also found very interesting is how he explains the rising of the kundalini, and how if you are actually feeling the kundalini rising it means that there is some resistance. If there is no resistance, the kundalini rising cannot be felt.
I also found very beautiful the way he explains that the woman coming out of the man, or the woman coming after the man in the bible does not mean she is inferior; it actually means she is a more refined version. After all, man came after the animals and the plants, not before.
He also explains that when you go inwards you don´t need to leave your wife as buddha did, the infatuation is not there anymore, but when you go in, comprehension arises, and compassion follows, your wife becomes your friend because she has helped you get there, you do not need to leave your family to reach enlightenment.

Phrases I liked:
"The scripture that is for you can be written only by you, by your own experience"
"The real man tries to conquer himself, not others".
"When someone attains nirvana, the eyes are the only door by which outsiders can know whether the man has really attained it".
"One has to feel the chakras, not know about them".
"Every moment of love will be followed by a moment of repulsion"
"There are only two choices. One is buddha´s "Nothing remains" and the other is Shankara´s "Everything remains".
"If you try celibacy, without repression, then you will be surprised. If you don´t repress your sexual desire, you simply watch it... Try it for three months - just be watchful. When the desire comes, sit silently, let it be there, listen to it, but don´t be carried away by it, don´t repress it, don´t indulge in it. Be a witness, you will be surprised, it may come with such intensity that one feels one may go crazy. Then automatically on its own accord, it disappears, and sex becomes irrelevant."
"If you want to be defeated, fight; if you want to win, surrender. This is the paradox: those who are ready to give in become winners".
"Your vision of things depends on from where you are looking".
"The man of perfection is the one who can move through all of the seven chakras easily- that is the man of freedom". "Buddha can come and touch your body and heal it. He can become a body, but that is his freedom".
"You possess only that which you can give, if you cannot give your money, then you are not the master of it, money is the master".
"A real man is capable of accepting gifts and giving them back".
"When you love a woman and you take her hand in your hand, if your hand is not streaming, this love is not going to be of any use."
"Even if there is a possibility to go astray, go astray because there is no way to grow if you are so afraid of committing errors."
"A person who goes on taking goes lower and lower. A person who goes on giving goes higher and higher."
"When you don´t need, all is available, when you are needy, nothing is available"-
"Let peace be thy goal".
"The outer woman is not going to satisfy, because no outer woman is going to completely fit with your inner woman".
"Tantra says there is no way to be satisfied with the outer, you will have to move inward".
"Tantra does not say that to make love to the outer is sin, it simply says that it is not very far-reaching".

[Misba · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book gives a detailed study of the Chakras and how to open them with both philosophical approaches as well as practical. Which means if you are not strong enough to win you desires first to win the chakras, then what you can do is to follow the physical exercises explained here, use your body so that it cannot help but ends up getting the atonement.

The basic thing in this book is, "Don't force yourself to dislike pizza and coke. Just focus inward, in your body. And, your body will tell you it doesn't want coke and poison. Eventually, your body will detest the Pizza and Coke, and you will end up winning the desire for it."

Books like this are necessary after every other bad reading for inner healing. I read it in a digital copy. This is going to be in my re-reading shelf.

[Reindert Van Zwaal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting read about energy works and chakras. I read it in small parts because it was too much to take in all at ones. Will try one of the meditations in the end...

[Axel Connolly · Rating 1 out of 5]

If I could give this book a negative score I would. First off the first sentence is: "Don't learn things to learn things. That's bad for you." Why, in anyway shape or form, would you say that? I am gay and being told that is only a phase and only okay when I am between a certain age and after that I am just a child and that I need a man to be "complete?" (I have nothing against men just not interested haha). That I have not lived a good life unless I am dying (from stress I assume) by 42 then I am a failure. That you cannot have sex after a certain age because then it becomes a disease to you? This book is garbage.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought that he was expressing really great and unique concepts for the most part! There were parts that were a little opinionated, but if you are able to look past some of them, the content is generally very helpful and interesting.

[Selene Arca · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'll read this over and over, it's a great guide with a no-nonsense tone that I appreciate.

[Nayantara · Rating 4 out of 5]

You just don't read the book. You ought to absorb it. Crisp and to the point. Opens you up and help you expand your perspective.

[Avinash · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gives you an understanding of how different theologists have explained chakras and how the chakra energy works…
And I really liked the part where Osho says it’s a map… things are basically a direction for you to follow, understand and apply as per your wisdom.
And the difference between the different teachings about chakras and the energy, it’s so eye-opening.
Its an all- encompassing book for someone starting to learn about Chakras.

[Kali Srikanth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fundamental clarification about chakras is Hindu Yoga believes in seven chakras, Jaina scriptures mention nine chakras and Buddhist scriptures say that there are dozens of chakras. They don't give any fixed number. But perhaps Buddha's experience is correct- and that doesn't make the Hindu yoga or Jaina Yoga incorrect. Buddha is saying that there are energy fields, whirling energy fields, from the lowest point in our spine up to the very peak of our head. There are many; now it is only a question of which ones are important.

One we know is our sex center muladhar. The second, just above it, which is not recognized in any Indian school of thought but has been recognized in Japan alone, is called the hara. It is between the navel and the sex center. The hara is the death chakra. In Japan, when somebody commits suicide, it is called hara-kiri. Nowhere in the world does such a thing happen except in Japan. Suicide is committed everywhere, but with a knife? Just two inches below the navel, the Japanese forces a knife – and this is the most miraculous death; no blood, no pain – and death is instantaneous. So the first chakra is the life chakra; it is a whirling energy. Chakra means wheel, moving. Just above the life chakra is the death chakra. The third important chakra is the heart chakra, anahata. You can call it the love chakra, because between life and death the most important thing that can happen to a man or to a woman is love. And love has many manifestations: meditation is one of the manifestations of love, prayer is one of the manifestations of love. This is the third important chakra. The fourth important chakra is what Hindu Yoga calls the agna chakra – just on our forehead between the two eyes. These four chakras are the most important.

The fourth is from where our energy moves beyond humanity into divinity. There is one more chakra, which is at the top part of our head, but one will not come across it in our life journey. That’s why I am not counting it, says Osho. After the fourth, one have transcended the body, the mind, the heart, all that is not you – only our being remains. And when death happens to such a person… That’s why in India the hara has not been taken note of; in the Hindu or Jaina or Buddhist Yoga, they were not considering people who commit suicide. They were thinking about people who were transforming their energy from the physical to the immaterial. So the fifth chakra is the sahasrar. The Jainas count it, the Hindus count it – because a person who dies after transcending the fourth chakra… His energy, his being leaves the body, cracking the skull into two parts; that is the sahasrar chakra. The four are our life experience.

Thus the book takes up the seven chakras, their individual essence, their co-relation with each other, their interdependence, comparison with final chakra and finally their purification mechanism.

Finally, like Osho puts it-

Anything that is needed will come of its own accord, in its own time. All this so-called esoteric knowledge about chakras, energy fields, kundalini, astral bodies, is dangerous as knowledge. As an experience, it is a totally different thing. Don’t acquire it as knowledge. If it is needed for your spiritual growth, it will come to you in its right time, and then it will be an experience. If you have an acquired knowledge, borrowed knowledge, it is going to be a hindrance.

This is immense, deep, profound and important of all a marvelous guide to the beautiful experience of our energy systems and subtle bodies. My highest possible recommendations.

[Zdenka Svoboda · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books I’ve read from Osho.

[Sukanya Viswanathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

if you continuously breathe from the chest, you will have tensions in your mind. If you continuously breathe from the chest, you will always be afraid because the chest breathing is meant only in fearful situations. And if you have made it a habit then you will be continuously afraid, tense, always in flight. The enemy is not there, but you will imagine the enemy is there; that’s how paranoia is created.
They have come to feel that in people who are afraid, the chest is tense and they are breathing very shallow breaths. If their breathing can be made deeper, to go and touch the belly, the hara center, then their fear disappears.
Watch a child; that is natural breathing and breathe that way. Let your belly come up when you inhale, let your belly go down when you exhale. And let it be in such a rhythm it becomes almost a song in your energy, a dance – with rhythm, with harmony – and you will feel so relaxed, so alive, so vital that you cannot imagine that such vitality is possible.

[Hector San Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un profundo e iluminador recorrido por los cuerpos sutiles, la filosofía oriental, la psicología occidental, el amor, las relaciones, las religiones y la espiritualidad. Una puerta abierta hacia el universo que existe y vibra más allá del cuerpo y la mente humana. Una luz blanca que brilla de manera perpetua en el vacío y la oscuridad de un mundo materialista y ciego.

[Dilek · Rating 3 out of 5]

Çakralarda yemek alt seviye, seks ise en üst seviyededir. 6.seviyeye çıkıldığında irade saf dışı kalır. Sol beyin yarım küresi erkek, sağ beyin yarım küresi dişidir. Nefesi durdurunca düşünce de durur. Fiziksel beden ve enerjisel beden olarak fizyolojik açıdan ayrışır. Müziğin 7 notası bedenin 7 çakrasını oluşturur.

Bedendeki tüm çakra noktaları açıklanıp, meditasyon süreci anlatılmış.

[Enrique · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book, but within the text, the author sometimes contradicts himself.

I think is good to read it to have a wider view of what life is. More options and good ways to apply this to everyday life.

[Yojana]

Amazing book. Osho describes the stages. As you move through the book, you will notice the changes within you as well.

[Yugal · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book will take to u next level ....,. You became a wise not only a knowledgeable but you have to read this book continuosly after a gap of months and year......be habitual to good things .

[Himanshu Verma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing

I need to read again. In first read one can't grasp everything. This book clears many doubts and gives different perspective of life.

[Ebru Kalan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kendimizi bu dünyayla fiziksel bedenimizle sınırlı sanırız. Bu kadar basit olmadığını beş bedenimiz olduğunu çakralarla ve elementlerle bağlantısını anlatmış detaylı.

[JeffJefferson53 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another 💣 bombastic 💣 read

[Milenium · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sadece alın ve okuyun. Sadece çakralarla alakalı olmadığını anlayacaksınız.

[Itzayana Candor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este libro fue una aproximación a un mundo fascinante de energías y trabajo propio. Es interiorizar en nuestro mundo infinito, conocernos, descubrirnos y encontrar que somos parte del todo y de la nada al mismo tiempo, que la polaridad que existe en el mundo forma parte de nuestra vida y nosotros formamos parte de ella.
La meditación como un estilo de vida y una práctica para conocernos más es sin duda alguna algo gratificante.

[Alyssa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I thought there were parts that were a little hateful.

[Martin Hassman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Slabší než jiné Oshoknihy. A ty zajímavější části jsem už četl v jiných knihách, duplikují se.

[Livros de Vidro]

Boa tarde leitores, como já dissemos, hoje aproveitamos para trazer um conjunto de livros virados para o bem-estar físico e psicológico.

Agora com este livro "O livro dos chacras", escrito por um místico internacionalmente conhecido e escritor de vários livros dentro da temática que ora vos apresentamos.

Como já referimos, não teceremos uma opinião no sentido de dizer se gostamos ou não destes livros pois não estamos diante de um romance ou livro que se possa simplesmente opinar por pura sensibilidade.

Este livro traz-nos um tema que não dominamos mas que desperta sempre alguma curiosidade. Questionamos o que são chacras e o livro responde como sendo centros de energia.

É um livro que está dividido em vários capítulos: os sete centros do ser, diferentes mapas para diferentes caminhos e meditações dos chacras.

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