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Part VII : Music for meditation
Chaitanya Hari, who composes and plays the music for Osho's meditations,
asks: Is the music also a sort of ocean?
It is because it simply gives you a totally different dimension.
Many dimensions are available. For example when you are listening
to me you are part of a totally different dimension - you become
part of me. Then you start feeling my vibe…. Then you start
moving with me - howsoever reluctantly. Even a few steps - but
you move in a different dimension.
Music is a different dimension. You can be completely drowned
in it…you can become drunk with it. It is a great therapy,
and it can make you whole and healthy and holy. It is meditation,
and a very natural meditation.
[Osho says that just as physics says that everything is made
of electrons, the eastern esoteric sciences say that everything
is made of sound - not of electricity.]
Music was born originally out of meditation, because in deep
meditation one starts feeling the cosmic sound: 'omkar' - what
the Zen people call 'the sound of one hand clapping'. It is not
a produced sound. When two hands clap, it is a produced sound.
When one hand creates the sound, without any clapping really -
because there is nothing else to clap with - when the sound comes
out of oneness, unity, unison, then it is natural…the cosmic
sound.
It is always there. When you become silent, you hear it. When
you have too much noise in your head, you cannot hear it. Not
that it is not there. It is always there, but you are not there.
Your own noise, your own fussing mind, goes on creating such barriers
that the still, small voice cannot be heard. Out of that original
sound, music has been created.
In the East we say that all music is an effort to bring that
cosmic sound to be. That's why there is spirituality in Indian
music…a new sensitivity which is nowhere to be found. In
the western music there is too much sexuality, it is too sensuous.
In the Indian music there is too much spirituality - it is not
sensuous at all. It silences you, calms you down, cools you, and
brings a breeze from the eternal…the breath of the eternal.
It is an effort to give you an indication of the cosmic sound.
It is just as when I am talking to you. My whole effort in talking
is to bring you something that cannot be talked about…to
say something that cannot be said…to bring to words something
which is wordless…to define something which cannot be defined
and is immeasurable. In the same way, music is an effort to say
something about the cosmic sound.
The greatest master is one, listening to whom you naturally
fall into meditation: that is the criterion of a real musician,
a real master - otherwise people are technicians. One can play
the sitar beautifully and you can enjoy it - it's good, an enjoyment.
But a person becomes a master when his created sound brings
you something of the uncreated…when his created sound has
a gospel in it…side by side comes the unknown…travelling
with the sound comes the soundless. The sound you will forget,
but the soundless will remain with you.
Music is born out of meditation, and so is dance. In fact all
that is beautiful has come out of meditation because there is
no other way for it to come. Meditation is the door.
Drown yourself in music - and don't practise it just like an
art and a skill. Practise it like a meditation, practise it religiously.
It is the holiest of holies. greatn08
I am creating a situation here. This is an Alchemical field.
This is not an ordinary ashram. This is a scientific lab. People
are being transformed. People are moving into new dimensions,
taking quantum leaps, arriving into new spaces. You cannot watch
these things from the outside. perf203
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