Tantra: The Supreme Understanding by OSHO
- A Short Summary
Based on What Prof. Dingbat (Alidan) Understood.

Chapter One: The Ultimate Experience

In this universe, energy is travelling continuously in the form of lines. These lines when intercepting with each other can take the form of substances like a human or car; and it can also remain in the energetic form. Apart from the anatomical view of the human body, OSHO tried to describe the inner core of human body as multiple pathways of energy that are travelling in a specific direction depending on the nature of the mind of any particular individual. OSHO referred to the mind as the blue sky and the thoughts as clouds. The mind is the window to the world outside. Surrounding the human body is an imaginary space of ego. People are separated from each other by this ego. People can overcome this ego by using many tools such as languages, symbols, dancing, and sex. Like the clouds in the blue sky, thoughts can come and go, and if you are very aware then you will notice gaps between thoughts like the gaps within clouds. When thoughts enter the mind they can possess it if awareness is null. If this is the case, do we have to reject these thoughts? The answer is no, but we have to be aware and they will go.

Chapter Two: The Root Problem of All Problems

Thoughts that come to the human mind are either good or bad. They can create the situation that we live in. Sometimes we start to think that something will happen in the future, and suddenly it becomes real. Is it a coincidence? No, it is because you with your thoughts created that particular situation either partially or fully. Thoughts can travel from a place to another in no time. Wars in Africa are the results of a combination of bad thoughts. These thoughts of those people can create fatal situations to others. In spite of that they will not be judged in this world because there is no objective evidence against them, but in the hereafter, when they stand in front of the god they will be punished for what they did.

Chapter Three: The Nature of the Darkness and of the Light.

Light does exist. Darkness is not real. It appears only when the light is absent. This concept can be applied to human behaviour. Hatred exists in the absence of love and so on. Don’t fight with darkness but try to find the light. Remember that a small candle can light a dark room. Darkness in this large room cannot overcome the light of a small candle. If the room remained dark for a hundred years it can be lighted again in a second. The dark will not say I am a hundred  years old.

Chapter Four: Be Like a Hollow Bamboo. Relaxation is the resting state of the body and the mind. Things such as obsession and ambition can affect this state and thus a person will start to be recognized by certain activities rather than normal actions. For example, having a meal without feeling hunger is an activity. On the other hand, if a person felt hungry and then he had a meal then this is an action. Activity can take many other forms like talking, chewing, eating, reading newspapers, and sleeping disorders. These are ways through which people release their stress because they cannot empty their thoughts and if they were animals they would jump on you. Meditation, prayers and yoga are methods used to overcome the symptoms only. But the problem still exists. Instead of focusing on the symptoms, these problems relating to being restlessness can be solved by being alert, being conscious, doing things slowly, and watching very carefully.

Chapter Five: The Innate Truth. Each society has certain norms and habits. These norms classify things into two main types: good and bad. New individuals to the society perceive not to accept the bad things. This way of thinking coexists with desires, which can come again and again to those individuals who will start to feel restlessness. Being different from society is not wrong. When compassion becomes an activity by trying to serve people, to change people, it is really wrong. Only enlightened people who do things spontaneously and indirectly can help others.

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