Osho - The book of secrets.: 112 meditations to discover the mystery within

From an interview with RIZA magazine, Italy

Q: You have invented some techniques, meditationtechniques, and you say that in India there are a 112 techniques of meditationyou discuss in The Book of Secrets. So how to choose what is useful?

Osho: They are all useful. One can just gothrough all 112 techniques which one can do within half an hour, because eachtechnique consists only of two lines. So just go through them, and anytechnique that strikes you This is what will be suitable to me try it. Orif you find two, three techniques, then try them one by one. Give each achance.

Out of 112 there must be a technique more than one;one is absolutely certain, but my experience is that more than one will beapplicable to every human being. And the easiest way is just to go through,read them, and any technique that suddenly strikes you This is it! give ita try, at least for twenty-one days.

If it starts working, then forget everything, othertechniques. Go on working on it. It does not matter how many techniques youtry. What matters is that you try one technique to its very end, to itsultimate depth. And if you succeed in one technique, then every other techniquebecomes very easy.

If the first technique took six months, the othertechniques may take just one week, because now you have reached to the exactpoint. You know the place, you know the space that meditation creates. This isa different path leading to the same space. And as you try a few othertechniques, the time will become less.

I have tried all 112 techniques. After trying a dozentechniques, it becomes so easy the first time, you reach immediately to thespace.

And then I have developed my own techniques other thanthese 112, because I saw that for the modern man there are a few problems whichare not covered in those 112 techniques. They were written perhaps ten thousandyears ago for a totally different kind of mankind, a different kind of culture,different kind of people. The modern man, the contemporary man, has somedifferences over ten thousand years it is absolutely inevitable.

For example, the Dynamic Meditation is not amongstthose 112. It is absolutely necessary for the modern man, although it may nothave been at that time. If people are innocent there is no need for DynamicMeditation. But if people are repressed, psychologically are carrying a lot ofburden, then they need catharsis. So Dynamic Meditation is just to help themclean the place. And then they can use any method from the 112. It will not bedifficult. If they, right now, directly try, they will fail.

I have seen many people trying directly reachingnowhere, because they are so full of garbage that first it has to be emptied out.

Dynamic Meditation is of immense help. All thetechniques that I have developed are for the contemporary man, and doing thesetechniques he will be clean, unburdened, simple, innocent. Perhaps there willbe no need to try those techniques. But just for curiositys sake you can tryone of the techniques, and you will be surprised how quickly you enter into itsvery innermost core.

So first thing is something cathartic, which isabsolutely necessary for the contemporary man. And then those silent methods canbe used.