title: Pillars of Consciousness: Buddha - Zen - Tao - Tantra
author: Osho
description: Osho (1931-1990) was one of the twentieth century s most accessible and popular mystics. His works have been published in more than 40 languages, covering everything from the individual s search for happiness to the most pressing social, political, and spiritual concerns of our time.
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  Contents
  
  > > > > > > > Acknowledgments
  
  > > > > > > > Preface by Mark Watts
  
   **PART ONE** THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
  
   **CHAPTER 1** Cosmological Models of the World
  
   **CHAPTER 2** The Dramatic Model
  
   **CHAPTER 3** The Eternal Transaction
  
   **PART TWO** THE WEB OF LIFE
  
   **CHAPTER 4** Levels of Perception
  
   **CHAPTER 5** The Web as Trap
  
   **CHAPTER 6** The Web as Play
  
   **PART THREE** INEVITABLE ECSTASY
  
   **CHAPTER 7** Attachment and Control
  
   **CHAPTER 8** Hypnosis and Habituation
  
   **CHAPTER 9** Harmonious Dissolution
  
   **PART FOUR** THE WORLD AS JUST SO
  
   **CHAPTER 10** The Koan of Zen
  
   **CHAPTER 11** Nonduality in Action
  
   **CHAPTER 12** A Great Doubt
  
   **PART FIVE** THE WORLD AS SELF
  
   **CHAPTER 13** Hindu Cosmology
  
   **CHAPTER 14** Insiders and Outsiders
  
   **PART SIX** THE WORLD AS EMPTINESS
  
   **CHAPTER 15** The Buddhist Method
  
   **CHAPTER 16** Impermanence by Any Name
  
   **CHAPTER 17** The Doctrine of Emptiness
  
  > > > > > > > About the Author
  
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