Silence: The Message of Your Being

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The talks that make up this concise volume, Silence The Message of Your Being, were given at a meditation camp In that setting, Osho offers valuable tools toward an exploration of life's mysteries. Humorous, down-to-earth stories illustrate the value of living with total intensity and in harmony with existence And guided meditations give a taste of the silence essential to experience the truth of life.

"You have listened to my words with such love and silence, I am very, very grateful for that. Because who wants to listen to the truth? People make faraway journeys to listen to lies, but who is willing to listen to the truth? No one is ready, simply because listening to the truth is the beginning of transformation in your life. When you listen to lies, there is no need to transform your life. Listening to the truth is the beginning of a new journey."

Osho's unique contribution to the understanding of who we are defies categorization. Mystic and scientist, a rebellious spirit whose sole interest is to alert humanity to the urgent need to dis- cover a new way of living. To continue as before is to invite threats to our very survival on this unique and beautiful planet.

His essential point is that only by changing ourselves, one individual at a time, can the outcome of all our "selves" - our societies, our cultures, our beliefs, our world - also change. The doorway to that change is meditation.

Osho the scientist has experimented and scrutinized all the approaches of the past and examined their effects on the modern human being and responded to their shortcomings by creating a new starting point for the hyperactive 21" Century mind: OSHO Active Meditations.

Once the agitation of a modern lifetime has started to settle. "activity" can melt into "passivity," a key starting point of real meditation. To support this next step, Osho has transformed the ancient "art of listening" into a subtle contemporary method- ology: the OSHO Talks. Here words become music, the listener discovers who is listening, and the awareness moves from what is being heard to the individual doing the listening. Magically, as silence arises, what needs to be heard is understood directly, free from the distraction of a mind that can only interrupt and interfere with this delicate process.

Existence is known only in absolute silence. But that silence does not mean a dead silence - not the silence of the cemetery but the silence of a garden where birds are singing and bees are humming and flowers are opening, where all is alive.

The silence that one comes to know through meditation, through agnosia, is a living silence. It is full of song, full of music, full of melody, full of joy, full of love-empty of all thoughts. Even the thought of love, the thought of joy, the thought of silence is absent. But joy is present, love is present. The thought of love is not present, in fact, the thought of love is present only when love is absent. You think of joy only when you are not joyful. When you are really joyous you never think of joy.

Mind gives you substitutes. Because you are joyless, mind gives you the idea of joy Because you don't know what love is, mind gives you a thousand and one definitions of love. When you know love, mind has nothing to do; mind simply ceases. One's real silence is not empty, it is not a kind of absence of everything. On the contrary, it is full- too full, abundantly full, overflowing- not with thoughts but with real experiences. And that is the revelation of the secret.

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