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THE BOOK OF SECRETS

There are many doors into meditation.

Not every door is opened in the same way.

The Vigyan Bhairava Tantra describes 112 ways of entering meditation through breath, sound, sensation, attention, space and ordinary moments of life.

We don’t need to practise all of them.

We explore a technique, experience it rather than analyse it, and notice whether something in it speaks to you.

WHAT IS THE BOOK OF SECRETS?

There is more than one doorway into meditation. There are 112.

Understanding

The Book of Secrets explores 112 meditation practices drawn from the Vigyan Bhairava Tantra, an ancient tantric text.

What's so good?

What I love about these practices is their range. 

Some begin with the breath. Others with the senses, sound, darkness, space, movement, attention or the pause between two moments.

Which one?

There is no suggestion that one practice should work for everyone.

Instead, we can explore. Notice what speaks to us. Stay with a practice for a while. And sometimes discover that a very simple doorway opens into something much larger.

One doorway is enough.
DIFFERENT DOORWAYS

A practice can begin almost anywhere.

The 112 practices offer many different places to begin. Some start with the breath or senses. Others with sound, movement, space or stillness. The invitation is to explore rather than decide in advance what meditation should look like.

BREATH

Notice the breath, the turning point between breaths, or the moment when breathing becomes still.

SENSES

Enter through seeing, listening, touch, taste or sensation giving yourself completely to what is being experienced.

SOUND

Listen closely to a sound, follow it as it changes, or notice the silence that remains when it disappears.

SPACE

Become aware of the space within the body, around the body, or the vastness in which experience is happening.

MOVEMENT

Let attention rest within movement - without needing to control where the movement is taking you.

STILLNESS

Notice the moments when nothing is happening. A pause, a gap, or simply being here without needing to do anything.

There are many ways in.
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A PERSONAL NOTE

I keep coming back to the simplicity of these practices.

What has stayed with me about the Book of Secrets is how ordinary many of the doorways are.

A breath. A sound. Looking into space. The moment before one movement becomes another.

We can spend a lot of time trying to understand meditation. These practices often ask something much simpler: can you experience this moment completely?

When I share them with someone, I don’t try to teach the whole text. We might explore one practice together, or find one that you can take into everyday life and stay with for a while.

Sometimes a practice connects immediately. Sometimes it doesn’t. There is no need to force it.

For me, the interesting part is discovering which doorway makes you want to stay.

You only need to find the doorway that opens for you.
YOU CAN BEGIN HERE.

Curious? That’s enough to begin.

You can come with a question, a feeling, a pattern you keep meeting or simply with the sense that something needs attention.

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