“The day you are able to circulate your energy in a circle you will not need another woman, you will not need another man, because your own man, your own woman will meet and merge into each other. You will be whole, and to be whole is to be holy.

This is Tao and this is Tantra too: to be whole is to be holy.”

Osho inspires millions of people worldwide in their individual search for meditation and transformation amidst the everyday challenges of contemporary life. His proposal that we celebrate the whole of our humanity - both our inner and outer worlds-encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology. The American novelist Tom Robbins has called him “the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ.”

Preface

Life is the way. Life has no goal. That’s why I love the world Tao. Tao means the way, with no goal. Simply the way. It was courageous of Lao Tzu, twenty-five centuries ago, to tell people that there is no goal and we are not going anywhere. We are just going to be here, so make the time as beautiful, as loving, as joyous as possible. He called his philosophy Tao, and Tao means simply “the way.”

Many asked him, “Why have you chosen the name Tao? Because you don’t have any goal in your philosophy…” He said, “Specifically for that reason I have chosen to call it ‘the way,’ so that nobody forgets there is no goal, but only the way.”

And the way is beautiful, the way is full of flowers. And the way goes on becoming more and more beautiful as your consciousness goes on becoming higher. The moment you have reached the peak, everything becomes so sweet, so ecstatic, that you suddenly realize that this is the place, this is home. You were unnecessarily running here and there.

Never think of going somewhere. Think in terms of transforming yourself here.

There is a cunning strategy of the mind to deceive you. The mind always makes you interested in things far away, there, so that you can be led away from here. Or at least your attention is no longer here, it is there. And you will never be there. Going from here to there, slowly, slowly you acquire the habit of always looking there, so wherever you reach, that place is no longer in your focus - your goal has shifted somewhere else.

In India there is an ancient proverb - diya tale andhera - “there is darkness under the lamp.” The lamp gives light all around, and just exactly underneath it there is darkness. This is the situation of man. You are capable of seeing everywhere, all around, but you are incapable of seeing where you are, who you are.

So cancel all the tickets you have booked! There is nowhere to go; just being here is so blissful. Close you eyes, so that you can see the reality of the here. “There and then” are only fictions.

Here and now are the only realities.

Back of the Book

Osho describes The Secret of the Golden Flower as very ancient, “…a great synthesis of all the great religions.” He also says, “This book, The Secret of the Golden Flower, is one of the most esoteric treatises in the world. it will show you the way to become more than the body. It will show you the way to go beyond death.” Among many valuable techniques, Osho gives specific instructions on the Taoist Golden Light meditation - to harmonize the male and female elements and transmute sexual energy.