MEDITATION

TECHNIQUE

The Book of
SECRETS
-Osho
”Buddhists learned from
Vigyan Bhairav. Sufis also
have such exercises; they
are also borrowed from
Vigyan Bhairav. Basically,
this is the source book of
all techniques which are

Concentrate on known all over the world."

Pain in Your -Osho, The Book of

Secrets.

Body O ne of the most ancient texts

The Ninth Technique: Pierce some part of your nectar-
filled form with a pin, and gently enter the piercing and
attain to the inner purity.
his sutra says, Pierce some part of your
and meditation manuals is
Shiva's 5000-year-old Vigyan Bhairav
Tantra, which is concerned with
how to go beyond the mind, to
attain glimpses of the consciousness
which exists apart from the mind. It
is here that one should not be
identified with the mind, and this is
the fallacy of the West; that we are
our minds. For us not to be

T nectar-filled form... Your body is not just a

body, it is filled with you, and that you is the
nectar. Pierce your body.
When you are piercing your body, you
are not pierced -- only the body is pierced. But you feel
the pierce as if you have been pierced; that is why you
feel pain. If you can become aware that only the body is
pierced, that you are not pierced, instead of pain you
will feel bliss. There is no need to do it with a pin. Many
things happen every day; you can use those situations
for meditation. Or you can create a situation.
Some pain is there in your body. Do one thing: forget
identified with our minds, to know
that the mind is only a moving
process, like walking, but not the
same as our consciousness, this is
the message of the Vigyan Bhairav
Tantra, the ancient Indian text. And
all the 112 techniques of meditation
are not concerned with how the
mind operates, but rather are
concerned only about how to find
the door outside the mind to find
the open sky of consciousness.

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the whole body, just concentrate on
the part of the body which is
painful. And then a strange thing
will be noted. When you
concentrate on the part of the body
which is painful, you see that part is
shrinking. First you feel that the
pain, the ache, is in your whole leg.
When you concentrate, then you
feel it is not in the whole leg. It was
exaggerated -- it is just at the knee.
Concentrate more, and you will
feel it is not on the whole knee but
just on a pinpoint. Concentrate
more on the pinpoint; forget the
whole body. Just close your eyes
and keep concentrating in order to
find where the pain is. It will go on
shrinking; the area will become
smaller and smaller. Then a
moment will come when it will be
just a pinpoint. Go on staring at the
pinpoint, and suddenly the
pinpoint will disappear and you
will be filled with bliss. Instead of
pain you will be filled with bliss.
Why does this happen? Because
you and your body are two, they
are not one. The one who is
concentrating is you. The
concentration is being done on the
body -- that is the object. When you
concentrate, the gap is broadened,
the identification is broken. Just to
have concentration you move
inside, away from the body. To
bring the spot of pain into
perspective, you have to move
away. That moving away creates the
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gap. And when you are
concentrating on the pain, you
forget the identification, you forget
that "I am feeling pain."
Now you are the observer and
the pain is somewhere else. You are
observing the pain, not feeling the
pain. This change from feeling to
observation creates the gap. And
when the gap is bigger, suddenly
you forget the body completely;
you are aware only of
consciousness.
You can also try this technique:
Pierce some part of your nectar-
filled body with a pin, and gently
enter the piercing. If there is pain,
Y our body has two
types of spots --
sensitive, alive
ones, and those
that are dead. So
find a sensitive
spot where you can
feel even a slight
touch. Then pierce
the pin and enter
the piercing. That
is the thing; that is
meditation
then first you will have to
concentrate on the whole area; then
gradually it will come to a pinpoint.
But there is no need to wait. You
can use a pin. Use a pin on any part
which is sensitive. On the body
many spots are blind spots; they
will not be useful. You may not
have heard about blind spots on the
body. Then give a pin to anyone, to
your friend, and sit, and tell your
friend to pierce your back with the
pin at many points. At several
points you will feel no pain. You
will say, "No, you have not pierced
yet. I am not feeling any pain."
Those are blind spots. Just on your
cheeks there are two blind spots
which can be tested.
If you go to Indian villages,
often at religious festivals they will
pierce their cheeks with an arrow. It
looks like a miracle, but it is not.
The cheeks have two blind spots. If
you pierce through these blind
spots, no blood will come out and
there will be no pain. On your back
there are thousands of dead spots,
where you cannot feel any pain.
Your body has two types of spots --
sensitive, alive ones, and those that
are dead. So find a sensitive spot
where you can feel even a slight
touch. Then pierce the pin and
enter the piercing. That is the thing;
that is meditation. And gently enter
the piercing. As the pin moves
inside, into your skin, and you feel
the pain, you also enter. Do not feel
that the pain is entering you; do not
feel the pain, do not be identified
with it. Enter with the pin. Pierce
with the pin.
Close your eyes; observe the
pain. As the pain is piercing in, you
also pierce yourself. And with the
pin piercing you, your mind will
become easily concentrated. Use
that point of pain, of intense pain,
and observe it. That is what is
meant by gently enter the piercing.
And attain the inner purity. If
you can enter observing,
unidentified, aloof, standing far
away, not feeling that the pain is
piercing you, but observing that the
pin is piercing the body and you are
an observer, you will attain the
inner purity; the inner innocence
will be revealed to you. For the first
time you will become aware that
you are not the body. And once you
know that you are not the body
your life is changed completely,
because your whole life is around
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world as a soul, as an Atman, not as
a body. If you exist as a body, then
you have created a different world:
of material gain, greed,
gratification, lust, sex. You have
created a world around you; this is
the body-oriented world.
Once you know you are not the
body, your whole world disappears.
You cannot support it any more. A
different world arises which is
around the soul -- a world of
compassion, of love, of beauty, of
truth, of goodness, of innocence.
The centre is shifted, and it is not in
the body now. It is in the
consciousness.
Enough for today.
the body. Once you know you are
not the body, you cannot continue -Osho
this life. The centre is being missed. The Book of Secrets
When you are not the body,
then you have to create a different
life. That life is the sannyasin's life.
It is a different life; the centre is
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