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Part VII : Music Group
In October 1975, an evening music group begins, with singing and
dancing. This music group, with many different musicians, forms
an integral part of Osho's work, and continues to the present
day.
The music groupleader asks for a name for the group.
I will give you a name…Nadam. It means the ultimate sound.
If every sound, every noise stops, then we start hearing the
sound of that soundlessness, the sound of silence itself. That
is nad.
Nad means the basic sound out of which everything is made. In
yoga, it is an hypothesis that everything is made of sound, sound
particles. In a way, both science and yoga agree, because science
says that sound is made of electrical particles, and yoga says
that electricity is nothing but a certain combination of sound
particles. So they have come to the same reality. But because
yoga came through silence, through dropping the thoughts and noise
of the mind and heard the innermost silence, yoga says that everything
is made of sound. So I will call it Nadam Music Meditation Group,
mm? Good! hammer25
The Nadam music group plays at darshan…
Music helps to bring you in tune with yourself. If you are really
involved in the outer music, it brings you in contact with the
inner music. Just be totally possessed as if you are not there
but just a vehicle for something unknown, for something from the
beyond. cypres01
A musician says he has been composing songs with one of the singers
and that it seemed different from the group's approach.
You can do it, mm? Individually, or whenever you feel with somebody
that you have a certain at-one-ment, you can make dyads, couples
or three or four persons, and you can evolve. But in this group,
you have to work totally differently. No individuality should
be brought in…as if the whole group is one individual. Because
if you all start being individuals, then there will be no group
soul possible, and the beauty is in the group soul. I would like
your group to increase by and by and become bigger. So the initial
group should be so much in tune that when a new individual joins,
he simply falls in line.
You are going to be the very base of a bigger group which will
be coming soon—so get ready! If you are not in tune, when
new persons come they will not be able to get in tune. They will
get into your disharmony, and they will go on their own way. Then
everybody is moving away from each other and the group disperses.
You are all playing and singing solo, so it is not an orchestra.
I know it is difficult to be in an orchestra and spontaneous,
but that difficulty has to be faced. And once you know the knack
of it—how to be spontaneous and yet not out of tune, how
to be spontaneous and yet flowing with everybody else, flowing
in your own way and yet with everybody else…. It is a little
complex and subtle but that's the beauty of it.
By and by your group will become bigger and bigger. When a hundred
persons will be singing and playing together, you will create
a pinnacle of energy, a tower. And that has to be so…. Like
a pyramid, mm? On the base you are a hundred. When you join together,
the pyramid becomes smaller and smaller and smaller. Then comes
the peak where every individual is lost; just the point is left.
There will be a pyramid of music, singing, ecstasy.
So do whatsoever you feel like doing separately. You can form
your own small music friendships, but that is separate. When you
join this group you have to follow a certain discipline, and yet
you have to be spontaneous. It looks paradoxical, but soon you
will have the knack of it. Once you know how to dissolve yourself,
once you are not there, you will simply be surprised, amazed,
mystified, that somehow the whole group is moving in one way,
and spontaneously.
Then you will feel an expansion of consciousness, because you
are not there as an individual; you have joined together with
a collectivity. No more islands…everybody has melted. And
then the whole thing becomes intuitive. When you are separate,
you are in directions. When you are not separate, you become intuitive.
You are joined by a telepathic cord which surrounds you like a
climate…touches you all…plays on your hearts, together.
That climate takes over, and you are possessed. You have to learn
it once and then you will know that everybody is moving together
and yet nobody is forcing.
Have you ever been in a crowd which is going to kill somebody,
or going to burn a temple or a church or a mosque? or in a crowd
which is protesting, shouting, screaming? Suddenly you will find
that you have started shouting and screaming; that you are getting
hot. What has happened? Just a moment before, you were cool and
calm, and you were going to your job or somewhere else. You meet
this crowd and people are shouting, and suddenly you feel you
have fallen in tune.
Have you seen soldiers walking in a rhythm? The military scientists
say that whenever an army is passing a bridge their rhythm should
be broken, otherwise the bridge can fall. Sometimes it has fallen,
because the rhythm is such a thing that the whole bridge starts
shaking—so soldiers are not to move on the bridge in step.
Nietzsche writes somewhere, 'I have never seen a greater music—greater
than when I see an army marching together.' He was a military-minded
man. But he is indicating a certain truth. The truth is that whenever
so many people are together, individuals disappear, egos disappear.
An egoless consciousness arises which is bigger than all; bigger
than the totality of all. It can be destructive…it can be
creative.
Hitler used it in a destructive way. He created a mass-mind. That
mass-mind was completely mad. It almost brought the world to destruction,
to total destruction—almost to the very brink. But the same
thing can be creative. That's what I want you to be.
If a collective soul can be destructive, why not creative? If
people can move with such totality, such involvement and commitment
that they are not there and something bigger controls them, then
why cannot the same be used for creativity?
And this is my understanding: if it is not done for creativity,
again and again it will be used for destructiveness. If you cannot
create groups which can enjoy being together in music, in poetry,
in singing and dancing, people are going to shout in the streets,
scream, go berserk, destroy…unless we can create just a
parallel world of people who are creative in their togetherness.
Individuals have been creative, but the problem is this—that
groups have been destructive and individuals have been creative.
The individuals are bound to fail.
When a Hitler comes, he creates a group. When a Mozart comes,
he plays individually. When a Mussolini comes, he creates a destructive
harmony. The same is to be done by a Buddha also…exactly
parallel. And if you can give people a creative togetherness,
who is going to be destructive? Nobody. In fact the whole charm
of the destruction is not in destruction—it is in being
together.
Let this be nailed into your heart—that the whole charm
is of being together. People are fed up with themselves. They
want to lose themselves somewhere, in an orgy—that is the
attraction. But if you can give them a creative togetherness,
they will not go in a destructive direction. There is no need—they
will be so fulfilled.
So this is just a beginning, remember. Everything that I am
doing is a beginning. You may not be aware of what is going to
happen.
More and more people will join, so let the base be perfectly solid.
When new people come, you will be twenty. When one new person
comes he is bound to flow with the twenty—if the twenty
are in harmony. If these twenty are not in harmony, he will go
on his own way. Then it becomes a crowd. It will be destructive…it
will create chaos. Even music can be destructive.
Have you come across the latest research about music? Indian
music and Western classical music is creative. The modern Western
music is destructive. If western classical music and Indian music
is played around plants, they grow fast. If modern pop music is
played, the plant doesn't grow at all; it stops. It doesn't come
to bloom…it becomes crippled and something in it dies.
The modern music creates anxiety, anguish. So music can be destructive,
can be creative. Everything can be either this or that. Togetherness
can be creative or destructive.
This group has to be very disciplined and yet spontaneous. It
will take a little time for you to feel, but once you feel, once
the vision has come to you and you have a glimpse, then you will
be simply amazed how many treasures were already there and you
never looked. getout01
The ashram's music group plays at darshan again…
Very good! You want to do one more?…Bring a greater climax,
mm? The whole point is to lose oneself. The climax will come only
when you are not individuals…just the group soul has evolved
and things are controlled not by individuals, but by the group
soul.
So just lose yourselves—then the climax will come. You
cannot bring it, you can only allow it. So allow it this time.
getout01
And music is good. Enjoy it. Move with the music and allow the
vibration of it. Don't hold in any way. Let your whole being vibrate.
In fact the whole existence consists of nothing but vibrations—millions
of forms, but all the forms consist of different types of vibrations.
Even physicists say that the deeper you go into the atom, the
more you find that nothing is left but only a pulsating energy,
vibrations.
We are made of vibrations, so the more you vibrate, the more
alive you are. Hence music is tremendously meaningful, because
it can vibrate you. It can bring pulsation to many layers of your
being which have become stale, stagnant. It can create ripples
in your innermost core. If you allow and you are not afraid, those
ripples will go on deeper and deeper and deeper. They will touch
your very core, your very centre.
So allow music to enter you. Just become a receptivity, an openness.
Go all the way and don't hold, because holding will create trouble;
your energy starts being divided. When music influences you, when
you are under its impact, then completely forget yourself. Be
oblivious of yourself. Just become part of it, and then you are
nothing but a vibration. Then the music will start playing upon
you and you will be just like an instrument.
It is going to give you the greatest meditation that is possible.
No other meditation is needed. passio13
I conceive of man also as a musical instrument. One has to learn
to play upon it. If you don't learn how to play upon it you will
create only noise, and it will be a disturbance; rather than being
a blessing it will become a curse. That's what goes on happening
to millions of people: their life is nothing but a tale told by
an idiot, full of fury and noise, signifying nothing. And the
simple reason is that they don't know how to play upon their heart,
upon their being.
Just as one learns to play upon the piano, the sitar, the sarod,
the veena, the violin, one has to learn to play upon one's own
being.
Sannyas has to become the beginning of that great art of creating
music out of your own being. That music is what the mystics have
called ecstasy, samadhi. That music is what others have called
god, nirvana. And it is there, fast asleep; it has to be provoked,
it has to be called forth. One has to be an artist, a musician.
One has to be creative, and one has to be an explorer of one's
own inner being.
Religion is not worship, it is art. It is not formality, it
is not a social institution; it is a transformation of your being.
It is creating harmony in your soul, it is alchemy. script40
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