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  • OSHO

  • OSHO International Foundation presents

  • 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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