Books like Tantra: The Supreme Understanding. Osho

Beautiful and powerful. OSHO teaches tantra through Tilopa's Song of Mahamudra, laying it out piece by piece, layer by layer and then unpacking each line and showing how it applies to our lives. Very contemporary teachings, very clear and uncompromising.i appreciate how simple and outrageous OSHO's teachings are. i was a bit baffled by a few things...one, why he aligns or compares Tantra to Mahayana instead of Vajrayana, which he doesn't even mention. second, for so much nondual nondual nondual he seems to be fixated on the duality of yoga vs. tantra. i understand his points about mantra being a re-conditioning of the mind rather than seeing through the root causes of delusion, but mantra practice isn't always about replacing thoughts, sometimes it's a practice of surrender, like with a deity practice. so it's actually a doorway into being just like meditation because you eventually drop the technique and sit in emptiness."Mahamudra is an experience of nothingness; simply, you are not, and when you are not, then who is there to suffer? Who is there to be in pain and anguish? Who is there to be depressed and sad, and who is there to be happy and blissful? Buddha says that if you feel you are blissful you will become again a victim of suffering, because you are still there. When you are not, completely not, utterly not, then there is no suffering and no bliss---and this is real bliss." (16)"Mahamudra rests on naught.Without making an effortbut remaining loose and natural...This is the whole method of Tilopa, and the whole method of Tantra: without making an effort--because if you make an effort, the ego is strengthened. If you make an effort, you come in." (21)"Don't fight with yourself; be loose. Don't try to make a structure around yourself of character, of morality. Don't discipline yourself too much; otherwise your very discipline will become the bondage. Remain loose, floating, move with the situation; respond to the situation. Don't move with a character jacket around you; don't move with a fixed attitude...But the whole society teaches you to impose something or other: be good, be moral, be this and that. Tantra is absolutely beyond society, culture and civilization. It says if you are too cultured you will lose all that is natural, and then you will be a mechanical thing, not floating, not flowing. So don't force a structure around you, live moment to moment, live with alertness." (22)"Gurdjieff used to say that only one thing is needed: not to be identified with that which comes and goes. The morning comes, the noon comes, the evening comes, and they go; the night comes and again and the morning. You abide: not as you, because that too is a thought--as pure consciousness; not your name, because that too is a thought, not your body, because one day you will realize that too is a thought. Just pure consciousness, with no form, just the purity, just the formlessness and namelessness, just the very phenomenon of being aware--only that abides." (33)"There is no need to stop the mind. Thoughts are rootless, homeless vagabonds; you need not be worried about them. Simply watch, watch without looking at them, simply look." (48)"Be aware! Feel the difference between action and activity. And when activity takes hold of you--in fact it should be called a possession when the activity possesses you like a ghost...And activity is a ghost, it comes from the past, it is dead--when activity possesses you and you become feverish, then become more aware; that's all you can do. Watch it. Even if you have to do it, do it with full awareness. Smoke, but smoke with full awareness so that you can see what you are doing...Let things drop; don't drop them. Let activity disappear, don't force it to disappear, because the very effort to force it to disappear is again activity in another form." (82)"Do naught with the body but relax.Shut firm the mouth and silent remain;empty your mind and tink of naught." (Song of Mahamudra)"Tantra says yes unconditionally....No disappears; from your very being no disappears. When there is no no, how can you fight? How can you be at war? You simply float....When you say a total yes to existence, all of existence is suddenly transformed..." (97)."The greatest courage in the world is to accept all that life gives to you." (105)"This very samsara is the nirvana." (106)"existence gives you life unconditionally" (137)"Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen into the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation to choose, if you can remain choicelessly aware, the trap disappears on its own accord." (182)"Simply wait, just knowing that things cannot be improved; they are already the best the can be. You jst have to enjoy. Everything is ready for the celebration, nothing is lacking. Don't get caught into absurd activities--and spiritual improvement is one of the most absurd activities." (225)"What do you mean by beauty? You mean that you are affected. When you say something is beautiful you are not saying that something is beautiful; you are saying that you are affected in a nice way; that's all. When you say something is ugly, you are saying that you are affected in an antagonistic way. You are repelled or you are attracted...But it is you, not the object." (186)"If you remain inside, you will see that everything happens by itself." (228)