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Tantra: The Supreme Understanding
In this all-time best seller, Osho discusses the mystical insights found in the ancient Tantric writings, and the many significant Tantric meditation techniques that are as relevant to the modern-day seeker as they were to those in earlier times.As always, Osho brings his own unique blend of wisdom, humor, and thought-provoking inspiration to even this complex subject, making it accessible to the widest possible audience.
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1975
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4,354 books6,780 followersRajneesh (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.
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.
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February 7, 2012
Beautiful and powerful. OSHO teaches tantra through Tilopa's Song of Mahamudra, laying it out piece by piece, layer by layer and then unpacking each line and showing how it applies to our lives. Very contemporary teachings, very clear and uncompromising.
i appreciate how simple and outrageous OSHO's teachings are. i was a bit baffled by a few things...one, why he aligns or compares Tantra to Mahayana instead of Vajrayana, which he doesn't even mention. second, for so much nondual nondual nondual he seems to be fixated on the duality of yoga vs. tantra. i understand his points about mantra being a re-conditioning of the mind rather than seeing through the root causes of delusion, but mantra practice isn't always about replacing thoughts, sometimes it's a practice of surrender, like with a deity practice. so it's actually a doorway into being just like meditation because you eventually drop the technique and sit in emptiness.
"Mahamudra is an experience of nothingness; simply, you are not, and when you are not, then who is there to suffer? Who is there to be in pain and anguish? Who is there to be depressed and sad, and who is there to be happy and blissful? Buddha says that if you feel you are blissful you will become again a victim of suffering, because you are still there. When you are not, completely not, utterly not, then there is no suffering and no bliss---and this is real bliss." (16)
"Mahamudra rests on naught.
Without making an effort
but remaining loose and natural...
This is the whole method of Tilopa, and the whole method of Tantra: without making an effort--because if you make an effort, the ego is strengthened. If you make an effort, you come in." (21)
"Don't fight with yourself; be loose. Don't try to make a structure around yourself of character, of morality. Don't discipline yourself too much; otherwise your very discipline will become the bondage. Remain loose, floating, move with the situation; respond to the situation. Don't move with a character jacket around you; don't move with a fixed attitude...
But the whole society teaches you to impose something or other: be good, be moral, be this and that. Tantra is absolutely beyond society, culture and civilization. It says if you are too cultured you will lose all that is natural, and then you will be a mechanical thing, not floating, not flowing. So don't force a structure around you, live moment to moment, live with alertness." (22)
"Gurdjieff used to say that only one thing is needed: not to be identified with that which comes and goes. The morning comes, the noon comes, the evening comes, and they go; the night comes and again and the morning. You abide: not as you, because that too is a thought--as pure consciousness; not your name, because that too is a thought, not your body, because one day you will realize that too is a thought. Just pure consciousness, with no form, just the purity, just the formlessness and namelessness, just the very phenomenon of being aware--only that abides." (33)
"There is no need to stop the mind. Thoughts are rootless, homeless vagabonds; you need not be worried about them. Simply watch, watch without looking at them, simply look." (48)
"Be aware! Feel the difference between action and activity. And when activity takes hold of you--in fact it should be called a possession when the activity possesses you like a ghost...And activity is a ghost, it comes from the past, it is dead--when activity possesses you and you become feverish, then become more aware; that's all you can do. Watch it. Even if you have to do it, do it with full awareness. Smoke, but smoke with full awareness so that you can see what you are doing...
Let things drop; don't drop them. Let activity disappear, don't force it to disappear, because the very effort to force it to disappear is again activity in another form." (82)
"Do naught with the body but relax.
Shut firm the mouth and silent remain;
empty your mind and tink of naught." (Song of Mahamudra)
"Tantra says yes unconditionally....No disappears; from your very being no disappears. When there is no no, how can you fight? How can you be at war? You simply float....When you say a total yes to existence, all of existence is suddenly transformed..." (97).
"The greatest courage in the world is to accept all that life gives to you." (105)
"This very samsara is the nirvana." (106)
"existence gives you life unconditionally" (137)
"Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen into the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation to choose, if you can remain choicelessly aware, the trap disappears on its own accord." (182)
"Simply wait, just knowing that things cannot be improved; they are already the best the can be. You jst have to enjoy. Everything is ready for the celebration, nothing is lacking. Don't get caught into absurd activities--and spiritual improvement is one of the most absurd activities." (225)
"What do you mean by beauty? You mean that you are affected. When you say something is beautiful you are not saying that something is beautiful; you are saying that you are affected in a nice way; that's all. When you say something is ugly, you are saying that you are affected in an antagonistic way. You are repelled or you are attracted...But it is you, not the object." (186)
"If you remain inside, you will see that everything happens by itself." (228)
i appreciate how simple and outrageous OSHO's teachings are. i was a bit baffled by a few things...one, why he aligns or compares Tantra to Mahayana instead of Vajrayana, which he doesn't even mention. second, for so much nondual nondual nondual he seems to be fixated on the duality of yoga vs. tantra. i understand his points about mantra being a re-conditioning of the mind rather than seeing through the root causes of delusion, but mantra practice isn't always about replacing thoughts, sometimes it's a practice of surrender, like with a deity practice. so it's actually a doorway into being just like meditation because you eventually drop the technique and sit in emptiness.
"Mahamudra is an experience of nothingness; simply, you are not, and when you are not, then who is there to suffer? Who is there to be in pain and anguish? Who is there to be depressed and sad, and who is there to be happy and blissful? Buddha says that if you feel you are blissful you will become again a victim of suffering, because you are still there. When you are not, completely not, utterly not, then there is no suffering and no bliss---and this is real bliss." (16)
"Mahamudra rests on naught.
Without making an effort
but remaining loose and natural...
This is the whole method of Tilopa, and the whole method of Tantra: without making an effort--because if you make an effort, the ego is strengthened. If you make an effort, you come in." (21)
"Don't fight with yourself; be loose. Don't try to make a structure around yourself of character, of morality. Don't discipline yourself too much; otherwise your very discipline will become the bondage. Remain loose, floating, move with the situation; respond to the situation. Don't move with a character jacket around you; don't move with a fixed attitude...
But the whole society teaches you to impose something or other: be good, be moral, be this and that. Tantra is absolutely beyond society, culture and civilization. It says if you are too cultured you will lose all that is natural, and then you will be a mechanical thing, not floating, not flowing. So don't force a structure around you, live moment to moment, live with alertness." (22)
"Gurdjieff used to say that only one thing is needed: not to be identified with that which comes and goes. The morning comes, the noon comes, the evening comes, and they go; the night comes and again and the morning. You abide: not as you, because that too is a thought--as pure consciousness; not your name, because that too is a thought, not your body, because one day you will realize that too is a thought. Just pure consciousness, with no form, just the purity, just the formlessness and namelessness, just the very phenomenon of being aware--only that abides." (33)
"There is no need to stop the mind. Thoughts are rootless, homeless vagabonds; you need not be worried about them. Simply watch, watch without looking at them, simply look." (48)
"Be aware! Feel the difference between action and activity. And when activity takes hold of you--in fact it should be called a possession when the activity possesses you like a ghost...And activity is a ghost, it comes from the past, it is dead--when activity possesses you and you become feverish, then become more aware; that's all you can do. Watch it. Even if you have to do it, do it with full awareness. Smoke, but smoke with full awareness so that you can see what you are doing...
Let things drop; don't drop them. Let activity disappear, don't force it to disappear, because the very effort to force it to disappear is again activity in another form." (82)
"Do naught with the body but relax.
Shut firm the mouth and silent remain;
empty your mind and tink of naught." (Song of Mahamudra)
"Tantra says yes unconditionally....No disappears; from your very being no disappears. When there is no no, how can you fight? How can you be at war? You simply float....When you say a total yes to existence, all of existence is suddenly transformed..." (97).
"The greatest courage in the world is to accept all that life gives to you." (105)
"This very samsara is the nirvana." (106)
"existence gives you life unconditionally" (137)
"Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen into the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation to choose, if you can remain choicelessly aware, the trap disappears on its own accord." (182)
"Simply wait, just knowing that things cannot be improved; they are already the best the can be. You jst have to enjoy. Everything is ready for the celebration, nothing is lacking. Don't get caught into absurd activities--and spiritual improvement is one of the most absurd activities." (225)
"What do you mean by beauty? You mean that you are affected. When you say something is beautiful you are not saying that something is beautiful; you are saying that you are affected in a nice way; that's all. When you say something is ugly, you are saying that you are affected in an antagonistic way. You are repelled or you are attracted...But it is you, not the object." (186)
"If you remain inside, you will see that everything happens by itself." (228)
June 5, 2017
This is my first try for Osho (maybe the last). The tantra teaching is very meditative, connects you to what is important and what matters (nothing), it grounds you to enjoy the simplicity of the present moment. A bit extreme (like all present oriented teachings) in my opinion the teaching inhibits goal orientation, ambitions, and change.
It is incredibly repetitive, (sometimes boring) you can easily skip through pages even chapters and feel that you're running around the same point.
On the other hand, I have picked a few things Ive learned especially regarding the "not-forcing" meditation to relax, the acceptance of whatever that you're in and the being like hollow bamboo.
I am not sure if I recommend it, but to me it was a nice escape from the stress of studying. Enjoy!
It is incredibly repetitive, (sometimes boring) you can easily skip through pages even chapters and feel that you're running around the same point.
On the other hand, I have picked a few things Ive learned especially regarding the "not-forcing" meditation to relax, the acceptance of whatever that you're in and the being like hollow bamboo.
I am not sure if I recommend it, but to me it was a nice escape from the stress of studying. Enjoy!
September 20, 2013
Food for the soul definitely. Found answers to many of my questions here. Its a book I'd refer to for the longest time.
June 25, 2022
Como todos los libros de Osho, no se trata de un manuscrito escrito por él mismo sino de la transcripción literal de varias de sus charlas, lo cual significa que a nivel literario, deja bastante que desear. El libro está organizado en capítulos vinculados con temas concretos (represión, consciencia, amor, indulgencia...) y subdividido en pequeños textos, la mayoría de menos de una página, donde se analiza la cuestión de marras.
¿Lo bueno? La información está bien condensada, y aunque algunos de los temas sean densos, se lee rápido.
¿Lo malo? Ese velo de omnipresencia narcisista que cubre todo lo que toca este autor. Como si su palabra fuese un dogma inamovible y todo aquel en desacuerdo con sus creencias estuviese cometiendo un pecado.
[...] Por eso tampoco espero que me comprendan. cuando me malentienden, yo entiendo perfectamente su malentendido. No tengo falsas esperanzas. Pasarán años o siglos antes de que me entiendan, pero esto siempre sucede así.
Además, sí como a mí, os entra un poco de urticaria al leer sobre conceptos abstractos y poco empíricos, como la "energía" (¿?), hay que hacer un ejercicio activo para leer entre lineas e intentar profundizar en lo que el autor quiere decir por encima de las formas que utiliza para describirlo. Porque, en el fondo, este es un libro que te ayuda a entender el sexo de una forma a que en la sociedad occidental no estamos acostumbrados. Y eso mola. Pero las tácticas usadas a veces me cuestan.
En resumen, es un buen libro para todxs aquellxs interesados en entender en profundidad la filosofía tántrica de Osho, y cómo acceder a estados de consciencia alterados (O a la potencial iluminación, como él señala) a través de la sexualidad. Analiza algunos temas muy interesantes, como los conflictos entre el ego y la sexualidad o cómo entrar en comunión con Dios (Aka, alcanzar el éxtasis) usando el sexo como una herramienta.
¿Lo bueno? La información está bien condensada, y aunque algunos de los temas sean densos, se lee rápido.
¿Lo malo? Ese velo de omnipresencia narcisista que cubre todo lo que toca este autor. Como si su palabra fuese un dogma inamovible y todo aquel en desacuerdo con sus creencias estuviese cometiendo un pecado.
[...] Por eso tampoco espero que me comprendan. cuando me malentienden, yo entiendo perfectamente su malentendido. No tengo falsas esperanzas. Pasarán años o siglos antes de que me entiendan, pero esto siempre sucede así.
Además, sí como a mí, os entra un poco de urticaria al leer sobre conceptos abstractos y poco empíricos, como la "energía" (¿?), hay que hacer un ejercicio activo para leer entre lineas e intentar profundizar en lo que el autor quiere decir por encima de las formas que utiliza para describirlo. Porque, en el fondo, este es un libro que te ayuda a entender el sexo de una forma a que en la sociedad occidental no estamos acostumbrados. Y eso mola. Pero las tácticas usadas a veces me cuestan.
En resumen, es un buen libro para todxs aquellxs interesados en entender en profundidad la filosofía tántrica de Osho, y cómo acceder a estados de consciencia alterados (O a la potencial iluminación, como él señala) a través de la sexualidad. Analiza algunos temas muy interesantes, como los conflictos entre el ego y la sexualidad o cómo entrar en comunión con Dios (Aka, alcanzar el éxtasis) usando el sexo como una herramienta.
January 7, 2023
თავიდან ცოტა საინტერესო იყო მარა მერე ძაან მოსაწყენი გახდა. არ ვიცი საიდან დავიწყო. ძალიან არა მეცნიერულად ლაპარაკობს ოშო, უბრალოდ ლაპარაკობს თან ერთი და იგივე რამეებს იმეორებს. იმეორებს ერთი და იგივე რამეებს. აი ეხლა მე როგორც ვქენი ესე შვრება სულ. არაფერს ასაბუთებს, არანაირ წყაროს არ უთითებს, რა საიდან მოაქვს, თან სულ ხვეწნაშია რომ მიენდო. მე ძალიან არ მომწონს ხალხი რაღაცნაირად ეზოთერიკაში რომ გადაეფლო. თან რაის ეზოთერიკა თუ ძმა ხარ. ფილოსოფია ვფიქრობ ილუზიების ტყვეობისგან გიხსნის, თან ყველა ნიცშე იქნება იუნგი თუ შოპენჰაუერი ამბობენ რომ ეს ცოდნა ყველასთვის არაა, რომ ყველა ვერ გაიგებს. ოშო კიდე ვითომ ამ ილუზიებისგან განთავისუფლებს მარა ახალ ილუზიებს გახვევს თავს ისევ ამ ნდობის ხარჯზე და თან ყველასთვის ბაზრობს. თან როცა არც წყაროა არსად მითითებული და რასაც ლაპარაკობს პირველად ოშოსგან იგებ, რთული იქნება არ მოტყუვდე და არ მიენდო. რაღაც მომენტში სანამ წავიკითხავდი მაინც იმედი მქონდა რამე ახალს გავიგებდი, მაგრამ ვერაფერი. ადრე ვიძახდი ხოლმე სადაც ნიცშე არსებობს ოშო რა საჭიროა თქო, მაგრამ ოშო ვაფშე სხვა რამე ყოფილა. აღარ ვაკადრებ არავის ოშოზე შედარებას. თან ეზოთერიკა ხომ რაღაც საიდუმლო ცოდნაა და ცოტა სასაცილოა ესეთი პაპსა როა დღეს ეზოთერიკა. მგონია გურჯიევი უფრო მეტად საინტერესო ტიპი იქნება და ვცდი აუცილებლად. მარა ოშო რავი ჰიპსტერების პატრიარქია რა. გუდრიდსზე არასდროს შემხვედრია რომ ვინმეს ოშოს აფდეითი გაეკეთებინოს და ეგ კარგია <3
March 3, 2021
This transcribed lecture series is both spiritually rousing and thought-provoking, but it is colored with totalist doctrine, and in his examples, Rajneesh/Osho carelessly misrepresents scientific principles, competing religious beliefs, and paranormal events.
If you aren’t aware, Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh was a well-educated university professor in India who became a world-renowned guru particularly popular with Westerners. It wasn’t until the year before his death that he rebranded himself Osho. In the 80’s, he and his followers built a city in Oregon called Rajneeshpuram which failed after his followers conducted the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attacks, the single largest bioterrorist attack in the United States, as well as the planned 1985 Rajneeshee assassination plot, in which they conspired to assassinate Charles Turner, the then-United States Attorney for the District of Oregon. The litigation that followed bankrupted the city and deported Rajneesh. He died five years later at his ashram in India.
I read this book to examine closely the teachings of a man I knew only as an infamous cult leader, and I did find components of totalist doctrine on display, but I was also pleasantly surprised to find numerous spiritual concepts presented with refreshing clarity. With excellent analogies and borrowed parables, Rajneesh revives Pith Instructions on Mahamudra from Mahasiddha Tilopa to offer a reframed worldview I find extremely compelling. However, his tangents often delve into subjects far beyond his expertise - such as physics and Christianity. On one occasion he presents a television broadcast of a telekinetic illusion as a factual occurrence, and he similarly relates as fact the unsubstantiated and improbable claims that Jesus of Nazareth spent his adolescence and young adult years in India studying Buddhism.
I’m conflicted. I wish to express censure of the deadly cult activities the author allowed to flourish under his nose and perhaps even directed. However, this book is filled with worthy tantric revelations that are only minimally tarnished by ignorant rambling.
The good:
I thought the strongest message in this book was that of acceptance. Rajneesh makes an incredible case for accepting ourselves, our bodies, our neighbors, our emotions, our cravings, and our world precisely as they are. He trains us not to judge, not to create distinctions, rules, or boundaries. If we simply witness, with attention, our problems fall away. The conflicts, desires, questions, thoughts, and shames are revealed as laughable nonsense, like a childhood tussle for a toy that was subsequently forgotten.
“You don’t cut your desires - just by accepting, they disappear.”
“When you say a total yes to existence, all of existence is suddenly transformed; then there are no more rocks, no more trees, no more persons, rivers, mountains, suddenly everything has become one, and that oneness is God.”
“Your inner purity is absolute; you cannot soil it.”
“We exist mutually: we are members of each other. Consciousness is a vast ocean and nobody is an island. We meet and merge with each other. There are no boundaries; all boundaries are false.”
Rajneesh authentically elucidates the tantric precept: Nothing exists that is not divine. He emphasizes communion with the universe, through detachment and presence.
The bad:
Rajneesh’s path to transcendence mandates absolute surrender to a trusted master. He does not go so far as to insist this master must be him, but he does advertise his primacy. Furthermore, he claims that transcended individuals are not bound by rules or responsible for their actions. While this may be consistent with some traditions of tantra, it becomes deadly dangerous when the master loses the path to self-realization in favor of hedonism.
“If the disciple is so receptive that he has no mind of his own, he does not judge whether it is right or wrong. He has no mind of his own, he has surrendered his mind to the master, he is simply receptivity, an emptiness ready to welcome whatsoever is given unconditionally.”
“That’s the meaning of being empty and a no-self: just being a non-being, anatta, no-selfness. Then you accumulate nothing; then you are not responsible for anything that goes on around you, then you transcend.”
Author Farrukh Dhondy claims that Rajneesh’s “'interpretation' of Indian texts is specifically slanted towards a generation of disillusioned westerners who wanted (and perhaps still want) to 'have their cake, eat it' [and] claim at the same time that cake-eating is the highest virtue according to ancient-fused-with-scientific wisdom. His lectures are designed for those who might have difficulty with Schopenhauer or in coming to grips with the monistic ultimate of Shankara's Advait Vedanta.” I must agree with Dhondy on his first point. Rajneesh’s teachings would hold appeal for cake-eaters. However, I am particularly fond of Shopenhauer, and my chosen philosophy is precisely the monistic ultimate of Advaita Vedanta. I found most of Rajneesh’s teachings congruent with my own.
I am glad I read it, but I wouldn't recommend it to others. There are plenty of heart-centered tantric paths to follow.
If you aren’t aware, Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh was a well-educated university professor in India who became a world-renowned guru particularly popular with Westerners. It wasn’t until the year before his death that he rebranded himself Osho. In the 80’s, he and his followers built a city in Oregon called Rajneeshpuram which failed after his followers conducted the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attacks, the single largest bioterrorist attack in the United States, as well as the planned 1985 Rajneeshee assassination plot, in which they conspired to assassinate Charles Turner, the then-United States Attorney for the District of Oregon. The litigation that followed bankrupted the city and deported Rajneesh. He died five years later at his ashram in India.
I read this book to examine closely the teachings of a man I knew only as an infamous cult leader, and I did find components of totalist doctrine on display, but I was also pleasantly surprised to find numerous spiritual concepts presented with refreshing clarity. With excellent analogies and borrowed parables, Rajneesh revives Pith Instructions on Mahamudra from Mahasiddha Tilopa to offer a reframed worldview I find extremely compelling. However, his tangents often delve into subjects far beyond his expertise - such as physics and Christianity. On one occasion he presents a television broadcast of a telekinetic illusion as a factual occurrence, and he similarly relates as fact the unsubstantiated and improbable claims that Jesus of Nazareth spent his adolescence and young adult years in India studying Buddhism.
I’m conflicted. I wish to express censure of the deadly cult activities the author allowed to flourish under his nose and perhaps even directed. However, this book is filled with worthy tantric revelations that are only minimally tarnished by ignorant rambling.
The good:
I thought the strongest message in this book was that of acceptance. Rajneesh makes an incredible case for accepting ourselves, our bodies, our neighbors, our emotions, our cravings, and our world precisely as they are. He trains us not to judge, not to create distinctions, rules, or boundaries. If we simply witness, with attention, our problems fall away. The conflicts, desires, questions, thoughts, and shames are revealed as laughable nonsense, like a childhood tussle for a toy that was subsequently forgotten.
“You don’t cut your desires - just by accepting, they disappear.”
“When you say a total yes to existence, all of existence is suddenly transformed; then there are no more rocks, no more trees, no more persons, rivers, mountains, suddenly everything has become one, and that oneness is God.”
“Your inner purity is absolute; you cannot soil it.”
“We exist mutually: we are members of each other. Consciousness is a vast ocean and nobody is an island. We meet and merge with each other. There are no boundaries; all boundaries are false.”
Rajneesh authentically elucidates the tantric precept: Nothing exists that is not divine. He emphasizes communion with the universe, through detachment and presence.
The bad:
Rajneesh’s path to transcendence mandates absolute surrender to a trusted master. He does not go so far as to insist this master must be him, but he does advertise his primacy. Furthermore, he claims that transcended individuals are not bound by rules or responsible for their actions. While this may be consistent with some traditions of tantra, it becomes deadly dangerous when the master loses the path to self-realization in favor of hedonism.
“If the disciple is so receptive that he has no mind of his own, he does not judge whether it is right or wrong. He has no mind of his own, he has surrendered his mind to the master, he is simply receptivity, an emptiness ready to welcome whatsoever is given unconditionally.”
“That’s the meaning of being empty and a no-self: just being a non-being, anatta, no-selfness. Then you accumulate nothing; then you are not responsible for anything that goes on around you, then you transcend.”
Author Farrukh Dhondy claims that Rajneesh’s “'interpretation' of Indian texts is specifically slanted towards a generation of disillusioned westerners who wanted (and perhaps still want) to 'have their cake, eat it' [and] claim at the same time that cake-eating is the highest virtue according to ancient-fused-with-scientific wisdom. His lectures are designed for those who might have difficulty with Schopenhauer or in coming to grips with the monistic ultimate of Shankara's Advait Vedanta.” I must agree with Dhondy on his first point. Rajneesh’s teachings would hold appeal for cake-eaters. However, I am particularly fond of Shopenhauer, and my chosen philosophy is precisely the monistic ultimate of Advaita Vedanta. I found most of Rajneesh’s teachings congruent with my own.
I am glad I read it, but I wouldn't recommend it to others. There are plenty of heart-centered tantric paths to follow.
August 29, 2019
Don't read it.
Why?
At first, the guru tells you to lose the critical mind. Losing critical mind, I mean, you should lose your ability to question and consider alternative possibilities. They say you shouldn't question anything, then only you can attain the knowledge (but, seriously, why so?).
That's not how it should work, or is it?
Author (or preacher) and readers (or listeners) are adversaries in communication - usually, the author provides enough details and references to facts that address all the 'doubts' of readers and make them agreeable. This book is opposite, it first tells the reader to kill the ability to doubt, and prepares the readers to agree whatever the author say in subsequent sections.
What made me close the book in the midway is the Guru references things that are from uncredible sources. (Let me tell you two you might want to debate: 1) He says Jesus visited India and learned Yoga -- he treats it as a matter of fact, but others don't believe so. 2) He talks about a couple of psychokinesis shows and makes inferences on them, but in my findings on credible sources, they were all proven fake.)
Some parts are about spiritual ideas that are based on Buddhism match with the other texts I have read, so rating 2 stars instead of 1 star.
I would rather read from other Buddhist who have the view that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change'. I do so not because 'science can prove beliefs wrong', at least they consider the possibility that 'some religious beliefs can be wrong', instead of saying 'all are facts, you must accept it without questioning any.'
Why?
At first, the guru tells you to lose the critical mind. Losing critical mind, I mean, you should lose your ability to question and consider alternative possibilities. They say you shouldn't question anything, then only you can attain the knowledge (but, seriously, why so?).
That's not how it should work, or is it?
Author (or preacher) and readers (or listeners) are adversaries in communication - usually, the author provides enough details and references to facts that address all the 'doubts' of readers and make them agreeable. This book is opposite, it first tells the reader to kill the ability to doubt, and prepares the readers to agree whatever the author say in subsequent sections.
What made me close the book in the midway is the Guru references things that are from uncredible sources. (Let me tell you two you might want to debate: 1) He says Jesus visited India and learned Yoga -- he treats it as a matter of fact, but others don't believe so. 2) He talks about a couple of psychokinesis shows and makes inferences on them, but in my findings on credible sources, they were all proven fake.)
Some parts are about spiritual ideas that are based on Buddhism match with the other texts I have read, so rating 2 stars instead of 1 star.
I would rather read from other Buddhist who have the view that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change'. I do so not because 'science can prove beliefs wrong', at least they consider the possibility that 'some religious beliefs can be wrong', instead of saying 'all are facts, you must accept it without questioning any.'
January 2, 2023
Of course 5 stars still. Love returning to this book and Osho's discourses, even if he was a weird one.
May 31, 2012
Amazing book, lots of deep insight. Some of it a bit skewed is as often ze case. Not for the spiritually faint.
September 10, 2013
This book contains discourses on the tantric way of Tilopa's song of Mahamudra. One of the best books about spirituality and tantra I've ever read. Very interesting book....
September 28, 2013
I will read this book 100 times over. The message is so pure and true. It's a great book to live by.
December 20, 2023
Beautiful heart opening book
Osho talks to the heart and brings many lights to the presence of being and consciousness. A very great book indeed.
Osho talks to the heart and brings many lights to the presence of being and consciousness. A very great book indeed.
June 8, 2020
6 Stars!
Chanced upon this book from this eye-opening article: http://www.oshoworld.com/osho_talk/ta...
My fav quotes (not a review):
- "People come to me and they ask, ”How to attain a peaceful mind?” I say to them, ”There exists nothing like that: peaceful mind. Never heard of it.” Mind is never peaceful – no- mind is peace. Mind itself can never be peaceful, silent. The very nature of the mind is to be tense, to be in confusion. Mind can never be clear, it cannot have clarity, because mind is by nature confusion, cloudiness. Clarity is possible without mind, peace is possible without mind, silence is possible without mind – so never try to attain a silent mind. If you do, from the very beginning you are moving in an impossible dimension."
-"each thought has to be separate from another thought; in fact, each word has to be separate from another word. The deeper you go, you will find more and more gaps, bigger and bigger gaps. A thought floats, then comes a gap where no thought exists; then another thought comes, another gap follows. If you are unconscious you cannot see the gaps; you jump from one thought to another, you never see the gap. If you become aware you will see more and more gaps. If you become perfectly aware, then miles of gaps will be revealed to you. And in those gaps, SATORIS happen. In those gaps the truth knocks at your door. In those gaps, the guest comes. In those gaps God is realized, or whatsoever way you like to express it. And when awareness is absolute, then there is only a vast gap of nothingness."
-"Mind doesn’t exist as an entity – the first thing. Only thoughts exist. The second thing: the thoughts exist separate from you, they are not one with your nature, they come and go – you remain, you persist. The third thing is that thoughts are foreign, intruders, outsiders. NO THOUGHT IS YOURS. They always come from without, you are just a passage. A bird comes into the house from one door, and flies out from another: just like that a thought comes into you and goes out of you. You go on thinking that thoughts are yours."
-"There is something in it: if you become more aware, a thought simply disappears, it melts, because awareness is a greater energy than thought. Awareness is like fire to thought."
-"If anger arises in you, watch; be a watcher on the hills, go on looking and looking and looking. And just by looking, without looking at anything, without getting obsessed by anything, when your perception becomes clear, suddenly, in a moment, in fact no time happens, suddenly, without time, you are fully awake; you are a buddha, you become the enlightened, the awakened one. What does a buddha gain out of it? He gains nothing. Rather, on the contrary, he loses many things: the misery, the pain, the anguish, the anxiety, the ambition, the jealousy, the hatred, the possessiveness, the violence – he loses all. As far as what he attains, nothing. "
-"Anger is not real, it is just the absence of compassion."
-"Activity is your escape from yourself. In action you are; in activity you have escaped from yourself – it is a drug. In activity you forget yourself, and when you forget yourself there are no worries, no anguish, no anxiety. That’s why you need to be continuously active, doing something or other, but never in a state when non-doing flowers in you and blooms."
-"Action is good. Activity is ill."
-"If you can watch smoking, suddenly some day, the cigarette will fall from your fingers, because the whole absurdity of it will be revealed to you."
-"Relaxation comes to you when there is no urge to activity; the energy is at home, not moving anywhere. If a certain situation arises you will act, that’s all, but you are not finding some excuse to act. You are at ease with yourself."
-"Understanding is the only discipline. Understand your activities and suddenly, in the middle of the activity, if you become aware, it will stop. If you become aware why you are doing it, it will stop."
-"You don’t cut your desires – just by accepting, they disappear."
-"Whatsoever the Christian missionaries are doing all over the world is paramita. Serve! Help! Sympathize! Be compassionate! But Tilopa says that will also not help. I have also observed – I know many people who are social reformers, great servants of society; their whole life they have devoted and sacrificed for the uplift of people – but no transformation has happened to them. It cannot happen, because serving the people, serving the society, becomes an occupation; they become occupied."
-"Tantra has a very very beautiful thing to say to you, and that is: First, before you start serving anybody else, be absolutely selfish. How can you serve anybody else unless you have attained your inner being first? Be absolutely selfish!"
-"A real master never tries to change anybody directly; he is like a subtle fragrance, he surrounds you. If you are open, a little whiff will enter in you. If you are not open, he will wait at the door; he will not even knock, because that may also disturb your sleep."
-"Says Buddha, ”You taste the ocean from anywhere, you will always find it salty.” You taste it from the KORAN, or from the BIBLE, or from the TORAH, or the TALMUD, the taste is always the same."
-"A great receptivity is needed, a great feminine receptivity is needed to find the master."
-"The same is done by yoga. You get angry – yoga says, ”Don’t get angry, rather cultivate the opposite: compassion.” By and by, your energy will start moving in the habit of compassion. If you persevere for a long time, anger will disappear completely, you will feel compassion. But you will be dead, not alive. You will be a robot, not a human being. You will have compassion, not because you have compassion, but only because you have cultivated a habit. You can cultivate a bad habit, you can cultivate a good habit."
-"This point has to be pondered over very deeply because it is very easy to cultivate a good habit and it is very difficult to become good."
-"Live it! Live it in totality. Respond, but don’t react. ”No habits” should be the formula."
-"You cut off one leaf and the roots take the challenge: they send three instead; they become more alert, they cannot remain sleepy. Somebody is trying to destroy them and they have to protect – and the same happens in life also, because life is also a tree. Roots and leaves are there. If you cut anger, three leaves will come instead; you will be thrice angry."
-"Then there is Krishnamurti at the other pole. He says there are no techniques, no meditations, but choiceless awareness. Perfectly right! – but he is trying to help you enter into the university without the primary school."
-"What is this no-mind? – the third approach towards reality. Buddhism and Jainism don’t preach charity, they preach indifference. They don’t say, “Give!” Tilopa is not saying don’t share. He is saying don’t be concerned with taking or giving. If you have, and it happens naturally that you feel like giving, give. But it should be a sharing, a gift. This is the difference between a gift and giving."
-"You have to listen to others up to an extent, and then you have to start listening to yourself. You must come back to the original state in the end. Before you die you must become an innocent child again – loose, natural; because in death again you are entering the dimension of being alone. Just as you were in the womb, in death again you will enter in the realm of being alone."
-"All the buddhas, TIRTHANKARAS of the Jainas – go and look at their statues: the elegance, the grace, the subtle roundness of their bodies, feminine. They don’t look masculine, they look feminine; a roundness, their curvature is feminine. That shows their inner being has become very slow, very gentle; nothing of aggression in them."
Chanced upon this book from this eye-opening article: http://www.oshoworld.com/osho_talk/ta...
My fav quotes (not a review):
- "People come to me and they ask, ”How to attain a peaceful mind?” I say to them, ”There exists nothing like that: peaceful mind. Never heard of it.” Mind is never peaceful – no- mind is peace. Mind itself can never be peaceful, silent. The very nature of the mind is to be tense, to be in confusion. Mind can never be clear, it cannot have clarity, because mind is by nature confusion, cloudiness. Clarity is possible without mind, peace is possible without mind, silence is possible without mind – so never try to attain a silent mind. If you do, from the very beginning you are moving in an impossible dimension."
-"each thought has to be separate from another thought; in fact, each word has to be separate from another word. The deeper you go, you will find more and more gaps, bigger and bigger gaps. A thought floats, then comes a gap where no thought exists; then another thought comes, another gap follows. If you are unconscious you cannot see the gaps; you jump from one thought to another, you never see the gap. If you become aware you will see more and more gaps. If you become perfectly aware, then miles of gaps will be revealed to you. And in those gaps, SATORIS happen. In those gaps the truth knocks at your door. In those gaps, the guest comes. In those gaps God is realized, or whatsoever way you like to express it. And when awareness is absolute, then there is only a vast gap of nothingness."
-"Mind doesn’t exist as an entity – the first thing. Only thoughts exist. The second thing: the thoughts exist separate from you, they are not one with your nature, they come and go – you remain, you persist. The third thing is that thoughts are foreign, intruders, outsiders. NO THOUGHT IS YOURS. They always come from without, you are just a passage. A bird comes into the house from one door, and flies out from another: just like that a thought comes into you and goes out of you. You go on thinking that thoughts are yours."
-"There is something in it: if you become more aware, a thought simply disappears, it melts, because awareness is a greater energy than thought. Awareness is like fire to thought."
-"If anger arises in you, watch; be a watcher on the hills, go on looking and looking and looking. And just by looking, without looking at anything, without getting obsessed by anything, when your perception becomes clear, suddenly, in a moment, in fact no time happens, suddenly, without time, you are fully awake; you are a buddha, you become the enlightened, the awakened one. What does a buddha gain out of it? He gains nothing. Rather, on the contrary, he loses many things: the misery, the pain, the anguish, the anxiety, the ambition, the jealousy, the hatred, the possessiveness, the violence – he loses all. As far as what he attains, nothing. "
-"Anger is not real, it is just the absence of compassion."
-"Activity is your escape from yourself. In action you are; in activity you have escaped from yourself – it is a drug. In activity you forget yourself, and when you forget yourself there are no worries, no anguish, no anxiety. That’s why you need to be continuously active, doing something or other, but never in a state when non-doing flowers in you and blooms."
-"Action is good. Activity is ill."
-"If you can watch smoking, suddenly some day, the cigarette will fall from your fingers, because the whole absurdity of it will be revealed to you."
-"Relaxation comes to you when there is no urge to activity; the energy is at home, not moving anywhere. If a certain situation arises you will act, that’s all, but you are not finding some excuse to act. You are at ease with yourself."
-"Understanding is the only discipline. Understand your activities and suddenly, in the middle of the activity, if you become aware, it will stop. If you become aware why you are doing it, it will stop."
-"You don’t cut your desires – just by accepting, they disappear."
-"Whatsoever the Christian missionaries are doing all over the world is paramita. Serve! Help! Sympathize! Be compassionate! But Tilopa says that will also not help. I have also observed – I know many people who are social reformers, great servants of society; their whole life they have devoted and sacrificed for the uplift of people – but no transformation has happened to them. It cannot happen, because serving the people, serving the society, becomes an occupation; they become occupied."
-"Tantra has a very very beautiful thing to say to you, and that is: First, before you start serving anybody else, be absolutely selfish. How can you serve anybody else unless you have attained your inner being first? Be absolutely selfish!"
-"A real master never tries to change anybody directly; he is like a subtle fragrance, he surrounds you. If you are open, a little whiff will enter in you. If you are not open, he will wait at the door; he will not even knock, because that may also disturb your sleep."
-"Says Buddha, ”You taste the ocean from anywhere, you will always find it salty.” You taste it from the KORAN, or from the BIBLE, or from the TORAH, or the TALMUD, the taste is always the same."
-"A great receptivity is needed, a great feminine receptivity is needed to find the master."
-"The same is done by yoga. You get angry – yoga says, ”Don’t get angry, rather cultivate the opposite: compassion.” By and by, your energy will start moving in the habit of compassion. If you persevere for a long time, anger will disappear completely, you will feel compassion. But you will be dead, not alive. You will be a robot, not a human being. You will have compassion, not because you have compassion, but only because you have cultivated a habit. You can cultivate a bad habit, you can cultivate a good habit."
-"This point has to be pondered over very deeply because it is very easy to cultivate a good habit and it is very difficult to become good."
-"Live it! Live it in totality. Respond, but don’t react. ”No habits” should be the formula."
-"You cut off one leaf and the roots take the challenge: they send three instead; they become more alert, they cannot remain sleepy. Somebody is trying to destroy them and they have to protect – and the same happens in life also, because life is also a tree. Roots and leaves are there. If you cut anger, three leaves will come instead; you will be thrice angry."
-"Then there is Krishnamurti at the other pole. He says there are no techniques, no meditations, but choiceless awareness. Perfectly right! – but he is trying to help you enter into the university without the primary school."
-"What is this no-mind? – the third approach towards reality. Buddhism and Jainism don’t preach charity, they preach indifference. They don’t say, “Give!” Tilopa is not saying don’t share. He is saying don’t be concerned with taking or giving. If you have, and it happens naturally that you feel like giving, give. But it should be a sharing, a gift. This is the difference between a gift and giving."
-"You have to listen to others up to an extent, and then you have to start listening to yourself. You must come back to the original state in the end. Before you die you must become an innocent child again – loose, natural; because in death again you are entering the dimension of being alone. Just as you were in the womb, in death again you will enter in the realm of being alone."
-"All the buddhas, TIRTHANKARAS of the Jainas – go and look at their statues: the elegance, the grace, the subtle roundness of their bodies, feminine. They don’t look masculine, they look feminine; a roundness, their curvature is feminine. That shows their inner being has become very slow, very gentle; nothing of aggression in them."
January 22, 2023
One pattern I've noticed in my life is that very smart people master analogies, which makes sense because analogies are how we generalize knowledge through the branches of the tree.
Osho comes up with beautiful analogies to explain his ideas.
I don't necessarily see all of his conclusions as valid, but his perspective is easily explored through his analogies.
Other things:
- He's pro-polyamory
- Very similar to Jiddu Krishnamurti's philosophy, a little spicier/kinkier.
- He seems to be a master of improvisation
Osho comes up with beautiful analogies to explain his ideas.
I don't necessarily see all of his conclusions as valid, but his perspective is easily explored through his analogies.
Other things:
- He's pro-polyamory
- Very similar to Jiddu Krishnamurti's philosophy, a little spicier/kinkier.
- He seems to be a master of improvisation
July 15, 2022
-4*
I do agree strongly and also suspect strongly in his multitude of views. Yet, glad that I got to understand my own views in this confusion. I already have a strong influence from J.Krishnamurti's views and reading this made me understand Krishnamurti's view a lot better in some areas.
The author explains through a lot of metaphors (metaphors are never accurate) but helps us to explore things we don't know. Overall, I am really glad I read this book and got to know and question so many things that I had, but I would not completely believe in him or his views. His vocabulary and ideas sound too lucrative than it actually is, this is to get his audience's attention but the actuality of what he wants to convey is a bit simple.
3 Key takeaways:
* We are 'what we think as' which basically means 'we are nothing' in a way.
* Wholeness of things.
* Beauty is an idea in one's head. Reality has nothing like beauty or ugly.
P.S : I've already seen a documentary about his cult following and how it fell. So there might be a bias. Also, it sounds like I am trying to listen from my prior knowledge and understanding him with respect to it. Could very much be the case in my analysis :D :P
I do agree strongly and also suspect strongly in his multitude of views. Yet, glad that I got to understand my own views in this confusion. I already have a strong influence from J.Krishnamurti's views and reading this made me understand Krishnamurti's view a lot better in some areas.
The author explains through a lot of metaphors (metaphors are never accurate) but helps us to explore things we don't know. Overall, I am really glad I read this book and got to know and question so many things that I had, but I would not completely believe in him or his views. His vocabulary and ideas sound too lucrative than it actually is, this is to get his audience's attention but the actuality of what he wants to convey is a bit simple.
3 Key takeaways:
* We are 'what we think as' which basically means 'we are nothing' in a way.
* Wholeness of things.
* Beauty is an idea in one's head. Reality has nothing like beauty or ugly.
P.S : I've already seen a documentary about his cult following and how it fell. So there might be a bias. Also, it sounds like I am trying to listen from my prior knowledge and understanding him with respect to it. Could very much be the case in my analysis :D :P
February 17, 2025
Tantra by Osho
*sách tóm tắt
- Tiếp cận với ng lý cơ bản: thế giới là 1 thể. K thấp hơn, k cao hơn. Mọi thứ đều như nhau, cả cs cái chết, ngày và đêm, yêu và ghét...K lên án điều gì. Tôn giáo k có tu sĩ, k tổ chức, k phá hủy cá nhân mà tôn trọng cá nhân.
- Chấp nhận bản thân mình. Mỗi ng trong chúng ta đều là điều huyền bí vĩ đại, chứa nhiều năng lượng đa chiều.
- Tin cậy vào thân thể, giác quan và nguồn năng lượng của chính mình.
- K từ chối điều j mà chuyển hóa mọi thứ. Hướng đến sự tôn trọng và yêu thương thân thể.
- Con ng có thể phát triển lên cao hơn nhưng vẫn trụ vững trong thân thể.
- Thả lỏng, k phán xét. Loại bỏ căng thẳng, kìm nén, Hiện hữu và tuôn chảy toàn bộ. Tự do vô điều kiện bất kể ta là gì và có thể là gì
- Tình yêu đầu tiên phải hướng đến chính mình. Chỉ từ trung tâm đó, các kiểu tình yêu khác mới có thể nảy sinh.
- Chấp nhận mình, yêu mình thì ng khác mới có thể yêu mình
- Dục vọng trở thành năng lượng để vượt lên trên.
- Thế giới trở thành niết bàn. Thân thể giống như 1 ngôi đền thiêng.
Nội dung 1: Tantra là cuộc gặp gỡ của các cực đối lập
- Tantra là con đg trung đạo, k phân chia mọi thứ thành 2 phần (tiếp cận nhị nguyên). Thứ thấp là tiềm năng để trở thành cao, k có thấp sẽ k có cao.
- K có sự phân biệt giữa thiêng liêng và trần tục, tình yêu thần thánh vs tình yêu con ng.
- Tiếp diễn từ trần tục - thiêng liêng, tình dục - siêu tâm thức.
- K khức từ điều j mà chuyển hóa mọi thứ.
- Nên đóng con mắt của lý trí, logic, và mở con mắt của tình yêu trực giác và sự nhận biết.
- Dạng tiến hóa cao hơn của tình yêu chỉ khi con ng chấp nhận chính mình, chuyển hóa tình yêu.
- Nếu thấy tội lỗi, con ng bắt đầu kìm nén.
- Khi tình dục đc chấp nhận 1 cách tự nhiên, nó bắt đầu phát triển cao hơn.
- Thái độ toàn diện với cs là tất cả đều đc chấp nhận. Vì tất cả đều là thần thánh. K có j là vấn đề cả. (chứng ngộ)
- Ta luôn là ta, k có j phải cải thiện. K phải tốt hơn. K phải thay đổi. Phải chấp nhận tất cả. Dần dần trong sự chấp nhận, trí huệ sẽ phát triển và ta nhận ra bản thể trường tồn của mình. Trở nên ngây thơ như 1 đứa trẻ.
- Cs là vũ điệu, ta phải tham gia nó. Càng im lặng, sự tham gia càng sâu. Đối xử trân trọng , thật âm, trọn vẹn với cs.
Nôi dung 2: Nhận thức chính là chìa khóa
- Thiền định - kết nối với chính mình.
- Khi suy nghĩ, ta bị mất kết nối.
- Phải hoàn toàn yên lặng, k suy nghĩ. Học ngôn ngữ của tình yêu, trái tim, sự yên lặng, hiện diện.
- Tantra là 1 kinh ng mà khi ta sẵn sàng tiếp nhận thì nó mới đến.
- Có thể phóng túng nhưng ý thức đc điều đó. VD: Giận dữ toàn tâm toàn ý nhưng nhận thức đc điều đó. K nên từ chối cái thấp hơn. Phải chuyển hóa thành cái cao hơn. Giận dữ sẽ chuyển hóa thành trắc ẩn.
- Tiến trình trưởng thành: Dùng tự nhiên để đi xa hơn. K tranh đấu với tự nhiên.
- Lòng biết ơn: Coi mọi thứ đều thiêng liêng
- Thái độ lành mạnh về tình dục. Tình dục là tốt, tự nhiên
- Bất kể ta trong hoàn cảnh nào cũng đừng sợ hãi, đừng bỏ trốn, hãy nhìn vào, quan sát nó và đi qua nó.
- Sự nhận biết mang đến sự thay đổi, chứ k phải nỗ lực
- Khi ta khác đi, cả thế giới khác đi. Ta tạo ra thế giới của ta. Từ ta mà thế giới thành hình.
Nội dung 3: Tantra nghệ thuật sống trọn vẹn trong từng khoảnh khắc
- Khuyến khích sự linh hoạt, tuôn chảy, sống trong từng khoảnh khắc, k vô trách nhiệm
- Có sự nhận biết về hành động của mình
- Để sự sống tuôn chảy thông qua ta
- Lấy ngẫu hứng làm đức hạnh nền tảng. Trong trạng thái buông bỏ k can thiệp, tuôn theo và cho phép tự nhiên xảy ra, k ngăn chặn hay cản trở.
- Ta là ng quan sát, là nhân chứng. Biết nó đang xảy ra nhưng k nhảy vào, k cố gắng thay đổi dòng chảy của nó.
- K có phương hướng, mục tiêu để đạt tới. Hãy lắng nghe bản thế, nếu k sẽ trở thành ng bắt chước.
- Ngẫu hứng k phải bốc đồng - k có giá trị
- Ngẫu hứng xuất phát từ nhận biết đầy đủ - k bị rơi vào bẫy tâm trí hay thân thể.
- Giác quan là cánh cửa của nhận thức. Tiếp nhận mọi thứ hết mức có thể và tuôn chảy trong cái chạm của ta.
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Giới thiệu nội dung
Tantra là cách tiếp cận với nguyên lý cơ bản: Thế giới là một thể, không bị phân chia thành thấp hơn hay cao hơn. Tantra cho rằng mọi thứ đều như vậy: cuộc sống và cái chết, ngày và đêm, yêu và ghét... Tantra không lên án điều gì. Tầm nhìn Tantra hướng đến một tôn giáo không có tu sĩ, không có tổ chức, không phá hủy cá nhân mà tôn trọng cá nhân - tôn trọng sâu sắc mọi người đàn ông và đàn bà bình thường trên thế gian.
Osho là một trong những nhà huyền môn nổi tiếng bậc nhất thế kỷ 20. Những giáo huấn của ông đã truyền cảm hứng cho hàng triệu người trên nhiều khía cạnh, từ sự tìm kiếm hạnh phúc cá nhân, những vấn đề chính trị - xã hội cấp thiết, cho đến những mối quan tâm về tinh thần của thời đại chúng ta. Với trí huệ, sự hài hước cùng nghệ thuật kể chuyện tài tình, ông dẫn dắt người đọc tìm hiểu những khái niệm triết học phức tạp một cách rõ ràng và thông suốt.
Tổng quan
Tantra chấp nhận bản thân mình. Mỗi người trong chúng ta đều là điều huyền bí vĩ đại chứa đựng nhiều năng lượng đa chiều. Tantra mong muốn họ chấp nhận bản thân, tin cậy vào thân thể, các giác quan và nguồn năng lượng của chính mình. Tantra không từ chối điều gì, mà chuyển hóa mọi thứ. Tantra hướng đến sự tôn trọng và yêu thương thân thể: con người có thể phát triển lên cao hơn, nhưng vẫn trụ vững trong thân thể.
Tantra là sự thả lỏng, không phán xét, loại bỏ các căng thắng, kìm nén. Tantra cho phép con người hiện hữu và tuôn chảy toàn bộ. Tantra cho phép họ tự do vô điều kiện, bất kể họ là gì và có thể là gì.
Tình yêu đầu tiên phải hướng đến chính mình - chỉ từ trung tâm đó, các kiểu tình yêu khác mới có thể nảy sinh. Khoảnh khắc một người chấp nhận chính mình, họ trở nên đẹp đẽ. Nhiều người sẽ yêu họ, vì họ ở trong tình yêu với chính mình. Thế rồi dục vọng sẽ trở thành năng lượng để vượt lên trên. Thế rồi thế giới này sẽ trở thành niết bàn, thân thể sẽ trở nên giống như một ngôi đền thiêng.
Nội dung thứ nhất: Tantra là cuộc gặp gỡ của các cực đối lập
Tantra là con đường trung đạo, không phân chia mọi thứ làm hai phần như cách tiếp cận nhị nguyên thông thường. Tantra xem thứ Thấp là một tiềm năng để trở thành Cao, không có Thấp thì sẽ không có Cao.
Tầm nhìn Tantra không có sự phân biệt giữa cái thiêng liêng và cái trần tục, giữa tình yêu thần thánh với tình yêu của con người. Nó là một sự tiếp diễn: từ trần tục chuyển thành thiêng liêng, từ tình dục chuyển hóa thành siêu tâm thức. Con đường của Tantra không khước từ điều gì mà chuyển hóá mọi thứ. Tantra khuyên nên đóng con mắt của lý trí, của logic, và mở con mắt của tình yêu trực giác và sự nhận biết. Tantra là dạng tiến hóa cao hơn của tình yêu.
Chỉ khi con người chấp nhận chính mình thì họ mới có thể chuyển hóa. Nếu cảm thấy tội lỗi, họ sẽ bắt đầu kìm nén. Khi tình dục được chấp nhận một cách tự nhiên, nó bắt đầu phát triển cao hơn. Tantra cho rằng thái độ toàn diện nhất với cuộc sống là tất cả đều được chấp nhận, vì tất cả đều là thần thánh. Khoảnh khắc mà chẳng có gì là vấn đề đối với bạn chính là khoảnh khắc bạn đã chứng ngộ.
Thông điệp cốt lõi của thái độ Tantra là:
- Bạn luôn là bạn, không có gì phải cải thiện.
- Bạn không phải tốt hơn, không phải thay đối cái này hay cái kia - bạn phải chấp nhận tất cả.
Dần dần trong sự chấp nhận, trí huệ sẽ phát triển và bạn nhận ra bản thể trường tồn của mình. Bạn trở nên ngây thơ như một đứa trẻ. Cuộc sống là vũ điệu. Bạn phải tham gia nó. Bạn càng trở nên im lặng, sự tham gia của bạn càng sâu. Hãy đối xử chân thật, tận tâm và trọn vẹn với cuộc sống.
Nội dung thứ 2: Nhận thức chính là chìa khóa
Thiền định chính là cách để kết nối với chính mình. Khi bạn suy nghĩ, bạn bị mất kết nối.
Để trở nên nhận biết, bạn phải không suy nghĩ, phải hoàn toàn im lặng. Bạn hãy học ngôn ngữ của tình yêu, ngôn ngữ của sự im lặng, của trái tim, của sự hiện diện. Tantra là một kinh nghiệm, mà chỉ khi bạn cởi mở, sẵn sàng tiếp nhận thì nó mới đến với bạn.
Trên con đường của Tantra, bạn có thể phóng túng nhưng ý thức được điều đó. Khi bạn giận dữ, Tantra bảo hãy giận dữ toàn tâm toàn ý, nhưng hãy nhận biết. Khi đó giận dữ sẽ được chuyển hóa thành lòng trắc ẩn. Nghĩa là, bạn không nên từ chối cái thấp hơn, mà cái thấp hơn phải được chuyển hóa thành cái cao hơn. Đó là một tiến trình trưởng thành. Bạn không cần tranh đấu, chống đối lại tự nhiên. Thay vào đó, bạn sử dụng tự nhiên để đi xa hơn.
Hãy bày tỏ lòng biết ơn bằng cách coi mọi thứ đều thiêng liêng. Chẳng hạn, Tantra mang đến một thái độ lành mạnh về tình dục: Tình dục là tốt, là lành mạnh, là tự nhiên. Bất kể bạn ở trong hoàn cảnh nào cũng đừng sợ hãi, đừng bỏ trốn. Hãy nhìn vào nó, quan sát và đi qua nó. Chính sự nhận biết mang đến sự thay đối, chứ không phải nỗ lực của bạn. Khi bạn khác đi thì cả thế giới khác đi. Bạn tạo ra thế giới của bạn. Chính từ bạn mà thế giới xung quanh bạn được thành hình.
Nội dung thứ 3: Tantra - nghệ thuật sống trọn vẹn trong từng khoảnh khắc
Tantra khuyến khích sự linh hoạt, tuôn chảy, sống trong từng khoảnh khắc. Không hàm ý vô trách nhiệm, mà thực ra đây được xem là thái độ có trách nhiệm hơn bởi vì lúc này bạn có sự nhận biết về hành động của mình. Hãy để sự sống tuôn chảy thông qua bạn.
Tantra lấy ngẫu hứng làm đức hạnh đầu tiên, đức hạnh nền tảng nhất. Trong Tantra, sự ngẫu hứng có giá trị lo lớn nhất, nghĩa là ở trong trạng thái buông bỏ, không can thiệp, tuân theo và cho phép tự nhiên xảy ra, không ngăn chặn hay cản trở nó.
Dù bất cứ điều gì xảy ra, bạn là người quan sát, là nhân chứng. Bạn biết nó đang xảy ra, nhưng bạn không nhảy vào trong nó và không cố gắng thay đổi dòng chảy của nó. Bạn không có phương hướng, không có mục tiêu để đạt tới. Hãy lắng nghe bản thể của mình, ngược lại, bạn sẽ trở thành người bắt chước.
Cần lưu ý, sự ngẫu hứng có 2 loại. Một loại chỉ là sự bốc đồng, và nó không có giá trị. Loại thứ hai xuất phát từ nhận biết, nó mang phẩm chất của một vị Phật. Ng���u hứng phải đi kèm với nhận biết đầy đủ. Khi đó, bạn không bị rơi vào bẫy của tâm trí hay thân thế.
Tantra cho rằng giác quan là cánh cửa của nhận thức. "Hãy nhìn vào cách Tantra tiếp cận mọi thứ... Tuôn chảy toàn bộ vào trong cái chạm của bạn, bởi vì bất cứ điều gì bạn chạm vào cũng là thiêng liêng... Hãy chạm, ngửi, nếm, nhìn và nghe trọn vẹn hết mức có thể."
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- Tiếp cận với ng lý cơ bản: thế giới là 1 thể. K thấp hơn, k cao hơn. Mọi thứ đều như nhau, cả cs cái chết, ngày và đêm, yêu và ghét...K lên án điều gì. Tôn giáo k có tu sĩ, k tổ chức, k phá hủy cá nhân mà tôn trọng cá nhân.
- Chấp nhận bản thân mình. Mỗi ng trong chúng ta đều là điều huyền bí vĩ đại, chứa nhiều năng lượng đa chiều.
- Tin cậy vào thân thể, giác quan và nguồn năng lượng của chính mình.
- K từ chối điều j mà chuyển hóa mọi thứ. Hướng đến sự tôn trọng và yêu thương thân thể.
- Con ng có thể phát triển lên cao hơn nhưng vẫn trụ vững trong thân thể.
- Thả lỏng, k phán xét. Loại bỏ căng thẳng, kìm nén, Hiện hữu và tuôn chảy toàn bộ. Tự do vô điều kiện bất kể ta là gì và có thể là gì
- Tình yêu đầu tiên phải hướng đến chính mình. Chỉ từ trung tâm đó, các kiểu tình yêu khác mới có thể nảy sinh.
- Chấp nhận mình, yêu mình thì ng khác mới có thể yêu mình
- Dục vọng trở thành năng lượng để vượt lên trên.
- Thế giới trở thành niết bàn. Thân thể giống như 1 ngôi đền thiêng.
Nội dung 1: Tantra là cuộc gặp gỡ của các cực đối lập
- Tantra là con đg trung đạo, k phân chia mọi thứ thành 2 phần (tiếp cận nhị nguyên). Thứ thấp là tiềm năng để trở thành cao, k có thấp sẽ k có cao.
- K có sự phân biệt giữa thiêng liêng và trần tục, tình yêu thần thánh vs tình yêu con ng.
- Tiếp diễn từ trần tục - thiêng liêng, tình dục - siêu tâm thức.
- K khức từ điều j mà chuyển hóa mọi thứ.
- Nên đóng con mắt của lý trí, logic, và mở con mắt của tình yêu trực giác và sự nhận biết.
- Dạng tiến hóa cao hơn của tình yêu chỉ khi con ng chấp nhận chính mình, chuyển hóa tình yêu.
- Nếu thấy tội lỗi, con ng bắt đầu kìm nén.
- Khi tình dục đc chấp nhận 1 cách tự nhiên, nó bắt đầu phát triển cao hơn.
- Thái độ toàn diện với cs là tất cả đều đc chấp nhận. Vì tất cả đều là thần thánh. K có j là vấn đề cả. (chứng ngộ)
- Ta luôn là ta, k có j phải cải thiện. K phải tốt hơn. K phải thay đổi. Phải chấp nhận tất cả. Dần dần trong sự chấp nhận, trí huệ sẽ phát triển và ta nhận ra bản thể trường tồn của mình. Trở nên ngây thơ như 1 đứa trẻ.
- Cs là vũ điệu, ta phải tham gia nó. Càng im lặng, sự tham gia càng sâu. Đối xử trân trọng , thật âm, trọn vẹn với cs.
Nôi dung 2: Nhận thức chính là chìa khóa
- Thiền định - kết nối với chính mình.
- Khi suy nghĩ, ta bị mất kết nối.
- Phải hoàn toàn yên lặng, k suy nghĩ. Học ngôn ngữ của tình yêu, trái tim, sự yên lặng, hiện diện.
- Tantra là 1 kinh ng mà khi ta sẵn sàng tiếp nhận thì nó mới đến.
- Có thể phóng túng nhưng ý thức đc điều đó. VD: Giận dữ toàn tâm toàn ý nhưng nhận thức đc điều đó. K nên từ chối cái thấp hơn. Phải chuyển hóa thành cái cao hơn. Giận dữ sẽ chuyển hóa thành trắc ẩn.
- Tiến trình trưởng thành: Dùng tự nhiên để đi xa hơn. K tranh đấu với tự nhiên.
- Lòng biết ơn: Coi mọi thứ đều thiêng liêng
- Thái độ lành mạnh về tình dục. Tình dục là tốt, tự nhiên
- Bất kể ta trong hoàn cảnh nào cũng đừng sợ hãi, đừng bỏ trốn, hãy nhìn vào, quan sát nó và đi qua nó.
- Sự nhận biết mang đến sự thay đổi, chứ k phải nỗ lực
- Khi ta khác đi, cả thế giới khác đi. Ta tạo ra thế giới của ta. Từ ta mà thế giới thành hình.
Nội dung 3: Tantra nghệ thuật sống trọn vẹn trong từng khoảnh khắc
- Khuyến khích sự linh hoạt, tuôn chảy, sống trong từng khoảnh khắc, k vô trách nhiệm
- Có sự nhận biết về hành động của mình
- Để sự sống tuôn chảy thông qua ta
- Lấy ngẫu hứng làm đức hạnh nền tảng. Trong trạng thái buông bỏ k can thiệp, tuôn theo và cho phép tự nhiên xảy ra, k ngăn chặn hay cản trở.
- Ta là ng quan sát, là nhân chứng. Biết nó đang xảy ra nhưng k nhảy vào, k cố gắng thay đổi dòng chảy của nó.
- K có phương hướng, mục tiêu để đạt tới. Hãy lắng nghe bản thế, nếu k sẽ trở thành ng bắt chước.
- Ngẫu hứng k phải bốc đồng - k có giá trị
- Ngẫu hứng xuất phát từ nhận biết đầy đủ - k bị rơi vào bẫy tâm trí hay thân thể.
- Giác quan là cánh cửa của nhận thức. Tiếp nhận mọi thứ hết mức có thể và tuôn chảy trong cái chạm của ta.
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Giới thiệu nội dung
Tantra là cách tiếp cận với nguyên lý cơ bản: Thế giới là một thể, không bị phân chia thành thấp hơn hay cao hơn. Tantra cho rằng mọi thứ đều như vậy: cuộc sống và cái chết, ngày và đêm, yêu và ghét... Tantra không lên án điều gì. Tầm nhìn Tantra hướng đến một tôn giáo không có tu sĩ, không có tổ chức, không phá hủy cá nhân mà tôn trọng cá nhân - tôn trọng sâu sắc mọi người đàn ông và đàn bà bình thường trên thế gian.
Osho là một trong những nhà huyền môn nổi tiếng bậc nhất thế kỷ 20. Những giáo huấn của ông đã truyền cảm hứng cho hàng triệu người trên nhiều khía cạnh, từ sự tìm kiếm hạnh phúc cá nhân, những vấn đề chính trị - xã hội cấp thiết, cho đến những mối quan tâm về tinh thần của thời đại chúng ta. Với trí huệ, sự hài hước cùng nghệ thuật kể chuyện tài tình, ông dẫn dắt người đọc tìm hiểu những khái niệm triết học phức tạp một cách rõ ràng và thông suốt.
Tổng quan
Tantra chấp nhận bản thân mình. Mỗi người trong chúng ta đều là điều huyền bí vĩ đại chứa đựng nhiều năng lượng đa chiều. Tantra mong muốn họ chấp nhận bản thân, tin cậy vào thân thể, các giác quan và nguồn năng lượng của chính mình. Tantra không từ chối điều gì, mà chuyển hóa mọi thứ. Tantra hướng đến sự tôn trọng và yêu thương thân thể: con người có thể phát triển lên cao hơn, nhưng vẫn trụ vững trong thân thể.
Tantra là sự thả lỏng, không phán xét, loại bỏ các căng thắng, kìm nén. Tantra cho phép con người hiện hữu và tuôn chảy toàn bộ. Tantra cho phép họ tự do vô điều kiện, bất kể họ là gì và có thể là gì.
Tình yêu đầu tiên phải hướng đến chính mình - chỉ từ trung tâm đó, các kiểu tình yêu khác mới có thể nảy sinh. Khoảnh khắc một người chấp nhận chính mình, họ trở nên đẹp đẽ. Nhiều người sẽ yêu họ, vì họ ở trong tình yêu với chính mình. Thế rồi dục vọng sẽ trở thành năng lượng để vượt lên trên. Thế rồi thế giới này sẽ trở thành niết bàn, thân thể sẽ trở nên giống như một ngôi đền thiêng.
Nội dung thứ nhất: Tantra là cuộc gặp gỡ của các cực đối lập
Tantra là con đường trung đạo, không phân chia mọi thứ làm hai phần như cách tiếp cận nhị nguyên thông thường. Tantra xem thứ Thấp là một tiềm năng để trở thành Cao, không có Thấp thì sẽ không có Cao.
Tầm nhìn Tantra không có sự phân biệt giữa cái thiêng liêng và cái trần tục, giữa tình yêu thần thánh với tình yêu của con người. Nó là một sự tiếp diễn: từ trần tục chuyển thành thiêng liêng, từ tình dục chuyển hóa thành siêu tâm thức. Con đường của Tantra không khước từ điều gì mà chuyển hóá mọi thứ. Tantra khuyên nên đóng con mắt của lý trí, của logic, và mở con mắt của tình yêu trực giác và sự nhận biết. Tantra là dạng tiến hóa cao hơn của tình yêu.
Chỉ khi con người chấp nhận chính mình thì họ mới có thể chuyển hóa. Nếu cảm thấy tội lỗi, họ sẽ bắt đầu kìm nén. Khi tình dục được chấp nhận một cách tự nhiên, nó bắt đầu phát triển cao hơn. Tantra cho rằng thái độ toàn diện nhất với cuộc sống là tất cả đều được chấp nhận, vì tất cả đều là thần thánh. Khoảnh khắc mà chẳng có gì là vấn đề đối với bạn chính là khoảnh khắc bạn đã chứng ngộ.
Thông điệp cốt lõi của thái độ Tantra là:
- Bạn luôn là bạn, không có gì phải cải thiện.
- Bạn không phải tốt hơn, không phải thay đối cái này hay cái kia - bạn phải chấp nhận tất cả.
Dần dần trong sự chấp nhận, trí huệ sẽ phát triển và bạn nhận ra bản thể trường tồn của mình. Bạn trở nên ngây thơ như một đứa trẻ. Cuộc sống là vũ điệu. Bạn phải tham gia nó. Bạn càng trở nên im lặng, sự tham gia của bạn càng sâu. Hãy đối xử chân thật, tận tâm và trọn vẹn với cuộc sống.
Nội dung thứ 2: Nhận thức chính là chìa khóa
Thiền định chính là cách để kết nối với chính mình. Khi bạn suy nghĩ, bạn bị mất kết nối.
Để trở nên nhận biết, bạn phải không suy nghĩ, phải hoàn toàn im lặng. Bạn hãy học ngôn ngữ của tình yêu, ngôn ngữ của sự im lặng, của trái tim, của sự hiện diện. Tantra là một kinh nghiệm, mà chỉ khi bạn cởi mở, sẵn sàng tiếp nhận thì nó mới đến với bạn.
Trên con đường của Tantra, bạn có thể phóng túng nhưng ý thức được điều đó. Khi bạn giận dữ, Tantra bảo hãy giận dữ toàn tâm toàn ý, nhưng hãy nhận biết. Khi đó giận dữ sẽ được chuyển hóa thành lòng trắc ẩn. Nghĩa là, bạn không nên từ chối cái thấp hơn, mà cái thấp hơn phải được chuyển hóa thành cái cao hơn. Đó là một tiến trình trưởng thành. Bạn không cần tranh đấu, chống đối lại tự nhiên. Thay vào đó, bạn sử dụng tự nhiên để đi xa hơn.
Hãy bày tỏ lòng biết ơn bằng cách coi mọi thứ đều thiêng liêng. Chẳng hạn, Tantra mang đến một thái độ lành mạnh về tình dục: Tình dục là tốt, là lành mạnh, là tự nhiên. Bất kể bạn ở trong hoàn cảnh nào cũng đừng sợ hãi, đừng bỏ trốn. Hãy nhìn vào nó, quan sát và đi qua nó. Chính sự nhận biết mang đến sự thay đối, chứ không phải nỗ lực của bạn. Khi bạn khác đi thì cả thế giới khác đi. Bạn tạo ra thế giới của bạn. Chính từ bạn mà thế giới xung quanh bạn được thành hình.
Nội dung thứ 3: Tantra - nghệ thuật sống trọn vẹn trong từng khoảnh khắc
Tantra khuyến khích sự linh hoạt, tuôn chảy, sống trong từng khoảnh khắc. Không hàm ý vô trách nhiệm, mà thực ra đây được xem là thái độ có trách nhiệm hơn bởi vì lúc này bạn có sự nhận biết về hành động của mình. Hãy để sự sống tuôn chảy thông qua bạn.
Tantra lấy ngẫu hứng làm đức hạnh đầu tiên, đức hạnh nền tảng nhất. Trong Tantra, sự ngẫu hứng có giá trị lo lớn nhất, nghĩa là ở trong trạng thái buông bỏ, không can thiệp, tuân theo và cho phép tự nhiên xảy ra, không ngăn chặn hay cản trở nó.
Dù bất cứ điều gì xảy ra, bạn là người quan sát, là nhân chứng. Bạn biết nó đang xảy ra, nhưng bạn không nhảy vào trong nó và không cố gắng thay đổi dòng chảy của nó. Bạn không có phương hướng, không có mục tiêu để đạt tới. Hãy lắng nghe bản thể của mình, ngược lại, bạn sẽ trở thành người bắt chước.
Cần lưu ý, sự ngẫu hứng có 2 loại. Một loại chỉ là sự bốc đồng, và nó không có giá trị. Loại thứ hai xuất phát từ nhận biết, nó mang phẩm chất của một vị Phật. Ng���u hứng phải đi kèm với nhận biết đầy đủ. Khi đó, bạn không bị rơi vào bẫy của tâm trí hay thân thế.
Tantra cho rằng giác quan là cánh cửa của nhận thức. "Hãy nhìn vào cách Tantra tiếp cận mọi thứ... Tuôn chảy toàn bộ vào trong cái chạm của bạn, bởi vì bất cứ điều gì bạn chạm vào cũng là thiêng liêng... Hãy chạm, ngửi, nếm, nhìn và nghe trọn vẹn hết mức có thể."
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Hi,
I hope all is progressing well.
Tantra: The Supreme Understanding by Osho is a text encouraging to be, more aware, growing more aware—through being. After reading The Heart of Tantric Sex and Tantric Orgasm for Women by Diana Richardson (both of which I really like), I decide to buy then read Tantra: The Supreme Understanding due to Osho being one of Diana Richardson's primary inspirational sources as well as Barry Long: I figure I may be able to get a better understanding of tantra doing so though am very appreciative of Diana Richardson's focuses with tantra through immediately applicable methods. Reading Tantra: The Supreme Understanding feels like I'm reading (note the text is a compilation of live recordings from Osho) a dialogue of an individual self-talking, talking with another while trying to tell me something sound though with a lot of examples that make me feel like the individual is between belligerent and intelligent (in overall non-menacing senses). Osho states in the text that the dialogue is to be so seemingly contradictory as well as extreme due to operating in metaphorical spheres so as to better navigate one toward being one's self. Osho seems to indicate for a/ reader(s) to take any part of the dialogue with a huge grain of salt into a fresh-open wound to grow in the world (at large) as one is though in a/ way(s) for which one is to grow. Osho is clear stating in the dialogue a/ way(s) a/ discussion(s) might go if one approaches Osho personally for life coaching. I think one may learn more about Osho than tantra throughout reading the text though I offer a few sentences that can sum the core of the text well;
1. Learn your self.
2. Build your self.
3. Create your life.
4. Embrace your life.
5. Be your self.
Onward and Upward,
Kevin Dufresne
www.Piatures.com
IG: @Dufreshest
I hope all is progressing well.
Tantra: The Supreme Understanding by Osho is a text encouraging to be, more aware, growing more aware—through being. After reading The Heart of Tantric Sex and Tantric Orgasm for Women by Diana Richardson (both of which I really like), I decide to buy then read Tantra: The Supreme Understanding due to Osho being one of Diana Richardson's primary inspirational sources as well as Barry Long: I figure I may be able to get a better understanding of tantra doing so though am very appreciative of Diana Richardson's focuses with tantra through immediately applicable methods. Reading Tantra: The Supreme Understanding feels like I'm reading (note the text is a compilation of live recordings from Osho) a dialogue of an individual self-talking, talking with another while trying to tell me something sound though with a lot of examples that make me feel like the individual is between belligerent and intelligent (in overall non-menacing senses). Osho states in the text that the dialogue is to be so seemingly contradictory as well as extreme due to operating in metaphorical spheres so as to better navigate one toward being one's self. Osho seems to indicate for a/ reader(s) to take any part of the dialogue with a huge grain of salt into a fresh-open wound to grow in the world (at large) as one is though in a/ way(s) for which one is to grow. Osho is clear stating in the dialogue a/ way(s) a/ discussion(s) might go if one approaches Osho personally for life coaching. I think one may learn more about Osho than tantra throughout reading the text though I offer a few sentences that can sum the core of the text well;
1. Learn your self.
2. Build your self.
3. Create your life.
4. Embrace your life.
5. Be your self.
Onward and Upward,
Kevin Dufresne
www.Piatures.com
IG: @Dufreshest
November 10, 2019
Life is wild. Love is wild. And existence is absolutely wild.
Author starts by admitting that he will have conflicts in his thoughts and boy what a truthful admittance.
Putting conflict aside, this book is too random. There's no consistency or stream of thoughts.
Osho is trying to say same thing again and again of how to let go of the ego and how to be aware and rise above "me" , but he can't resist not bringing in other's . In his own imagination he has created how the world view of Mohammadens, hindus , jews, yogis and bhuddists are and tben he goes on challenging this own assumptions.
This is more like random thoughts put on paper without much concrete philosophy or wisdome behind it.
These were some wild thoughts which are good for some wild distractions maybe.
Author starts by admitting that he will have conflicts in his thoughts and boy what a truthful admittance.
Putting conflict aside, this book is too random. There's no consistency or stream of thoughts.
Osho is trying to say same thing again and again of how to let go of the ego and how to be aware and rise above "me" , but he can't resist not bringing in other's . In his own imagination he has created how the world view of Mohammadens, hindus , jews, yogis and bhuddists are and tben he goes on challenging this own assumptions.
This is more like random thoughts put on paper without much concrete philosophy or wisdome behind it.
These were some wild thoughts which are good for some wild distractions maybe.
June 20, 2024
"One lives one's life, one goes through it: each shade of it has to be lived, and each taste has to be tasted. Even the wandering, even going astray is meaningful, because if you never go astray you will not achieve to an enriched enlightenment, you will never be simple. You may be a simpleton, but you will never be simple - and a simpleton is not simple."
Transcribed from lectures by Osho to a live audience. Tantra : the supreme understanding is a window into the life and methods of bodhidharma and teachings of Tilopa.
It is perhaps the most important book I have read yet. Osho urges the reader to surrender their preconceived notions of duality i.e. good or bad, immoral or moral, god or devil. An acceptance of the whole is key to start this journey of spirituality. For knowledge is partial and understanding is whole.
Be loose and natural, be a spectator.
Transcribed from lectures by Osho to a live audience. Tantra : the supreme understanding is a window into the life and methods of bodhidharma and teachings of Tilopa.
It is perhaps the most important book I have read yet. Osho urges the reader to surrender their preconceived notions of duality i.e. good or bad, immoral or moral, god or devil. An acceptance of the whole is key to start this journey of spirituality. For knowledge is partial and understanding is whole.
Be loose and natural, be a spectator.
October 12, 2024
After watching the documentary on Osho, I decided to read this book in hopes of gaining a fresh perspective on him. Unfortunately, it didn’t help change my viewpoint.
The book does present some thought-provoking ideas, but since it's adapted from Osho’s speeches, the writing lacks the coherence and refinement of a more carefully crafted book. Moreover, there are instances where Osho makes bold, often negative statements, only to contradict himself, which undermines the message and adds confusion.
Overall, while the book has its moments, it failed to meet my expectations both as a work on tantra and as an effort to better understand Osho. Ultimately, I find it difficult to trust the content presented by Osho, and I would prefer to explore works by more grounded spiritual teachers who are not surrounded by the same level of chaos and negative energy.
The book does present some thought-provoking ideas, but since it's adapted from Osho’s speeches, the writing lacks the coherence and refinement of a more carefully crafted book. Moreover, there are instances where Osho makes bold, often negative statements, only to contradict himself, which undermines the message and adds confusion.
Overall, while the book has its moments, it failed to meet my expectations both as a work on tantra and as an effort to better understand Osho. Ultimately, I find it difficult to trust the content presented by Osho, and I would prefer to explore works by more grounded spiritual teachers who are not surrounded by the same level of chaos and negative energy.
August 9, 2017
Serie di discorsi di Osho in cui il Maestro traccia le linee della sua filosofia esistenziali a partire dalla canzone di Mahamudra di Tilopa. Non si tratta di uno scritto organico ma di una serie di discorsi tenuti in occasioni diverse. Perciò il libro non è scevro di ripetizioni e contraddizioni come sempre capita in questi casti. Alla fine però la filosofia di Osho - lasciarsi andare al flusso della vita fino quasi a perdere la propria coscienza individuale senza tarpare nessuna parte di se - è forte e chiara, e il messaggio interessante. Interessante perché è antitetico ai sistemi religiosi correnti e però profondamente intriso di spiritualità e rispetto per la condizione umana.
Insomma: meglio osso degli oshoidi che gli sono succeduti.
Insomma: meglio osso degli oshoidi che gli sono succeduti.
July 21, 2020
I wish words could come to my rescue and help me describe my feelings here, never in my life have I felt this impotent in expressing myself. I'm pretty sure there is no coming back from this book for me, as there was none from the point I came across "Love, freedom and aloneness". I will make sure that not even a second in my life I will force myself into a certain discipline or impose a structure around myself, i.e., respond out of a fixed pattern in any situation. I'm going to keep living my life moment to moment, loose and natural, the tantric way.
November 21, 2022
Enlightening read for most people since we are primed to think negatively about Tantra as a school of thought. This book reveals that Tantra is much more than sex and black magic. Osho is as usual at his poetic and charismatic best, weaving in elegant metaphors to explain abstract concepts.
The flow of the book is not the best since most of Osho’s books are his vocal discourses converted into books by his followers. The book can get repetitive after some point and readers are advised to skim through the latter half of the book.
The flow of the book is not the best since most of Osho’s books are his vocal discourses converted into books by his followers. The book can get repetitive after some point and readers are advised to skim through the latter half of the book.
September 26, 2022
A Helpful book for the time being. I have implemented the teaching but found that I became emotionless. There was no grief but there was no joy either. Helpful where nothing sims to work but when you are out of misery there is no meaning in following the ideas in the book. Also, the book repeats the concepts a lot. Osho has never drafted books, but books are merely notes of his lectures, so it lacks the flow of the reading.
April 26, 2021
There is no other book that has challenged me in such a deep way. I'm sure some won't like this book because there are some contradictions but that's part of the point. Life doesn't come with exact rules. This book has helped me to challenge my own thinking and the constructs that I create which limit my expression and joy in life. I'm looking forward to reading it again.
January 19, 2022
Be Loose & Natural to find the state of Being or Mahamudhra..
Quite radical views but the core message are very simple of becoming "Loose & Natural".
But Osho has shown attachment toward Tantra Path to achieve the state of enlightenment or Moksha..
As per my view state of enlightenment is all about being loose, natural and detached including the Path such as Tantra itself
Quite radical views but the core message are very simple of becoming "Loose & Natural".
But Osho has shown attachment toward Tantra Path to achieve the state of enlightenment or Moksha..
As per my view state of enlightenment is all about being loose, natural and detached including the Path such as Tantra itself
March 21, 2018
Osho is bullsh*t. Read Krishnamurti.. Osho is never a clear writer. you can never understand he is a relicious or not. He only writes same winding words for money. cant be like WOOW when you read any of his books..
August 26, 2023
well one of those books that elaborate on one thought, so nothing new but still immensely valuable. If someone can just guarantee to incorporate this thought in his actions their life will be perfect.
January 17, 2024
If not more it gave me the understanding of significance of being loose and natural in the field of spirituality. Good introduction to (Buddhist)Tantra. Will be exploring other tantra related texts and reading 'Tilopa song of Mahamudra' without commentary.
July 11, 2024
This book falls into the category of books that are good for starting to ask critical questions and helping you see the other side of the picture.
But it takes stories, ideas, and examples from a variety of religious writings, including much of the Bible.
But it takes stories, ideas, and examples from a variety of religious writings, including much of the Bible.
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