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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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