Tantra: The Supreme Understanding by Osho [Paperback]

Osho presents Tantra as a radical path to liberation through effortlessness, awareness and surrender, where the ultimate is discovered not by striving for it but by becoming receptive, natural and free of ego.

‘Surrender is the keyword for Tantra; will is the keyword for Yoga. Yoga is the path of will; Tantra is the path of surrender. That’s why Tantra is the path of love—love is surrender.’

Most books on Tantra begin and end with sex; not so here. With his customary clarity and lucidity, Osho reveals in detail—and in the language of modern man—the real nature of Tantra, a way of life both natural and meditative, where inner transformation and outer practice meet.

The Song of Mahamudra is the 11th-century Indian mystic Tilopa’s medium in which he communicates the essence of Tantra to his disciple Naropa. Using the song as a basis for this series of talks, Osho delves in with an understanding that far exceeds what we believe Tantra to be today. Osho contrasts the way of Tantra with the way of Yoga, to further deepen our understanding of two of the most widely used descriptions of living this century.