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Ancient Music in the Pines
Author : OSHO
Rs. : 225/-
Pages : 278
Published By : The Rebel Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.,
50, Koregaon Park, Pune-411001
(India)
Reviewed By- Prof. P. K. Arya
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With the help of five wonderful Zen stories and questions from seekers on the path, Osho explains carefully, intimately and as always, very humorously, exactly what meditation is.
This ancient music in the pines is the soundless sound, the sound of existence itself which is surrounding us all the time – we are just so busy with our lives, so preoccupied with our thoughts, that we don’t hear it. In these talks Osho helps us examine and understand the mechanism of our minds, and with this understanding gives us a chance to put the mind aside and hear this ancient music. And to listen to it, to that which is always there, is what meditation is all about. Modern man is so full of inner conflict and turmoil because there is no longer any bridge between the two parts of our minds. The world outside has become very fast, logical and dominated by the left brain and our intuitive creative right-brained side has been pushed aside This is why men and women fight, why people afraid of relationship – because once we start trying to relate, our inner conflict about this imbalance gets exposed and projected onto others – or turns into schizophrenia. What Gurdjieff called “crystallization” is when our two minds become one beautifully-functioning whole, and the way to find this integration is meditation.
Osho explains how watching our breath leads to relaxation. Our breathing often isn’t deep and natural anymore because sex has been repressed, but if we trust and think of life as a friend not as an enemy, we no longer hold our breath, we breathe out fully. That’s why Buddha emphasizes breathing so much in Vipassana. It is our “bridge with existence”, our door to reintegration. Of course, the ego wants to survive, so it makes mountains out of molehills “…and of course nobody wants small tensions. Everyone wants big tensions!” But in the end, the mind is just a mechanism, and if we can simply put time aside to breathe and relax, we will rediscover an essential joy and innocence in our lives.
“How not to be is the whole problem of religion, how to be in such a deep silence that being becomes almost equivalent to non-being, that there remains no difference between being and non-being, that the boundaries between being and non-being disappear. You are, and yet in a certain sense you are not; you are not and yet in a certain sense, for the first time, you are. When thought is not disturbing you – thoughts are like ripples on the lake; silence is like no ripples on the lake, just being – suddenly you become aware of a music that has always surrounded you. Suddenly it enters from everywhere. You are overwhelmed, you are possessed. This is the first thing to understand. You will not be able to know truth unless you have become capable of listening to the ancient music of omkar. This music is the very heartbeat of existence, this music is the very door of existence.”
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