Tantra: The Supreme Understanding by Osho (Epub)

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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.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author OSHO is one of the best-known and most provocative spiritual teachers of our time. The Sunday Times of London named him one of the “1,000 makers of the twentieth century” and novelist Tom Robbins called him “the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ.” Nearly two decades after his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers around the world.

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⭐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.

⭐One of the best books I have read.The concept of Tantra, the ability to assimilate yourself in the universe and be blissful explained.This book is a must read for people who are disillusioned by man made religions.There are references and explanations on how priests have created society and morality to enslave the common man.Osho shows us how to rise above this through our own.Beautiful!

⭐I love how clearly Osho addresses issues most people don’t talk about. Beautiful book, a path to true freedom of expression of who you truly are.

⭐I gave this book away in new years to someone, she said I want to rebuy it for your library. I asked her to write a note for whoever reads it again, exactly one year later I gave it to someone else, with the message inside, very magical someone gives you a book with a message a stranger wrote for you one year before. Sooo I bought it a third time lol

⭐Excellent. Deep. I wish This would be a mandatory life book. As Tilopa would have expressed, no reviews can be described by words, please just read it, with time, with alertness, hope you grasp all the teachings within. Osho is a genius.

⭐This book blew me away! So rich and deep and informative and inspirational. Osho is THE author for we Westerners to read for basic understanding of Buddhism. The text was surprisingly easy to read, and makes this spiritual journey sound do-able for a regular person like me.

⭐Book will make you take a look at how life is supposed to be lived.

⭐I loved this book because it really expanded the view of what Tantra really is. It’s so much more than a tool for sexuality. It’s a whole person approach to understanding our highest truth. A must read if you are interested in exploring your sacred expression physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, chemistry, sexually, and spiritually.

⭐Greatest book I have ever read bar none. I’ve just started reading it for the third time. Better than Alan Watts (never thought I’d say that). Better than anything I’ve come across in Buddhism, including anything I read or heard whilst doing two 4-week meditation retreats in a Buddhist monastery in Nepal. Buy this book now.

⭐When you read the book, it feels like Osho is directly talking to you. The book opens your eyes not only regarding what tantra is but also on how to find peace with yourself

⭐Loved it from start to end. Glad he is still living from these discourses.

⭐been looking for knowlegde on tantra, this is it for me

⭐Very nice supplement to reality

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