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Osho: Silence over Tibet -- the music of OM
Osho speaks about the Tibetan mantra: 'Om Mani Padme Hum'
Maneesha,
The only country in the world
which has devoted all its genius
to the inner exploration
is Tibet.
Its findings are of tremendous value.
Om Mani Padme Hum
is one of the most beautiful expressions
for the ultimate experience.
Its meaning is
"the sound of silence,
the diamond in the lotus."
Silence has also its sound, its music...
although
outer ears cannot hear it,
just as outer eyes cannot see it.
We have
six outer senses.
In the past
man only knew
that we have five outer senses;
the sixth is a new discovery.
It is inside your ears;
hence
people missed to recognize it.
It is the sense of balance.
When you feel giddy
or when you see a drunkard walking,
it is his sense of balance that is affected.
Just as these six senses
are to experience the outer,
exactly the same
six senses
are there
to experience the inner --
to see it,
to hear it,
to feel its utter balance,
its beauty.
It is
invisible to the outer eyes
but not to the inner.
And you cannot touch it through your outer senses,
but the inner heart is
absolutely immersed in it.
OM
is the sound when everything else
disappears from your being --
no thought,
no dream,
no projections,
no expectation,
not even a single ripple --
your whole lake of consciousness
is simply silent,
it has become just a mirror.
In those rare moments you hear
the sound of silence.
It is the most
valuable experience
because it not only shows
a quality of the
inner music --
it also shows
that the inner is full of harmony,
joy,
blissfulness.
All that is
implied
in the music of OM.
You are not to say it.
If you say it you will miss
the real thing.
You have to hear it,
you have to be utterly calm and quiet
and suddenly it is all around you,
a very subtle dance.
And the moment you are able to hear it,
you have entered into
the very secrets of existence.
You have become so subtle
that now you deserve
all the mysteries
to be exposed to you.
Existence waits
till you are ready.
In the East
all the religions
without exception
agree on this point,
that the sound that is heard
in the final,
highest peak of silence
is something similar to
OM.
The word OM is not written
in any language of the East,
alphabetically,
because it is not part of language.
It is written as a symbol;
hence the same symbol is used
in Sanskrit,
in Pali,
in Prakrit,
in Tibetan --
everywhere the same symbol,
because all the mystics of all the ages
have reached to the same experience:
that it is not part of our mundane world,
hence it should not be written in alphabet;
it should have its own symbol
which is beyond language.
It does not mean anything
as far as mind is concerned,
but it means
tremendously much as far as your
spiritual growth is concerned.
Source: 'Om Mani Padme Hum, #1' Copyright © Osho International Foundation, Switzerland. OSHO ® is a registered TM.
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