The Book of Secrets: Keys to Love and Meditation by Osho
By Osho
During this entire and functional consultant, the secrets and techniques of the traditional technology of Tantra turn into on hand to a modern viewers for the 1st time. constrained to small, hidden secret colleges for hundreds of years, and infrequently misunderstood and misinterpreted this present day. Tantra isn't just a suite of strategies to augment sexual event. As Osho indicates in those pages, it's a whole technological know-how of self-realizatoin, in keeping with the cumulative knowledge of centuries of exploration into the which means of lifestyles and recognition. Tantra-the very notice skill "technique"-is a suite of strong, transformative instruments that may be used to carry new which means andjoy to each point of our day-by-day lives.
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Breathing is the mechanism of life, and life is deeply related with breathing. That is why in India we call it PRANA. We have given one word for both -- PRANA means the vitality, the aliveness. Your life is your breath. Thirdly, your breath is a bridge between you and your body. Constantly, breath is bridging you to your body, connecting you, relating you to your body. Not only is the breath a bridge to your body, it is also a bridge between you and the universe. The body is just the universe which has come to you, which is nearer to you.
You are afraid. You are afraid to be so vulnerable, so open to someone, to anyone. You may call him your lover, you may call her your beloved, but you are afraid. The other is there. If you are totally vulnerable, open, you do not know what is going to happen. Then YOU ARE completely, in another sense. You are afraid to be so completely given to someone. You cannot breathe; you cannot take a deep breath. You cannot relax your breathing so that it goes to the center -- because the moment breathing goes to the center your act becomes total.
So after the sex act you feel relaxed and you can fall into sleep easily. Freud says that sex is the best tranquillizer, and it is -- at least for modern man. In sex breathing will become fast; in anger breathing will become fast. In sex the mind is filled with desire, lust, impurity. When the mind is pure -- no desire in the mind, no seeking, no motivation; you are not going anywhere, but just remaining here and now as an innocent pool... not even a ripple -- then breathing stops automatically.