Immediate Turning to the Present (Vigyan Bhairav Tantra)

Shiva: the God of Meditation stands in Osho’s vision as the incomparable source of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra: one hundred and twelve utterly practical doors into awareness. Unlike traditions that wrap practice in concepts, Shiva offers no preface—only living techniques meant to pivot the mind from its habitual journeys into past and future and drop it, suddenly, into the luminous, unmediated present.

Osho emphasizes the radical directness and completeness of these methods: they are exhaustive, designed for all kinds of seekers across ages. Their essence is not intellectual understanding but immediate application. When a technique is done, the mind turns to the present; and in the very act of arriving, it stops—because one cannot be a mind in the present. This Tantra is life-affirming: Shiva, not a celibate, shows that spiritual depth does not require repression; life-energy can refine into love and compassion without denial. The meditation below preserves this spirit of immediacy and affirmation.