‘You can hear the ancient music in the pines
because it is eternal music, it is never lost. You have lost the capacity to
hear it. The music is eternal; once you regain your capacity, suddenly it is
there again.’
“... to hear the ancient music, mind has to be put aside”.
Osho starts off
this discourse series to explain the mind, and then step by step points the
way to let the mind pass.... getting ready to hear the ancient music in the
pines.
content:
# 1 Left brain, right brain inner conflict
# 2 The meaning of maturity
# 3 The halo of Yakushi-Buddha
# 4 Be a light unto yourself
# 5 The ultimate secrets of swordsmanship
# 6 Madman and devotees
# 7 The proper state of mind
# 8 Life, death and love
# 9 You have my marrow
excerpt from chapter 1:
Being is one, the world is many...and between the two is
the divided mind, the dual mind. It is just like a big tree, an ancient oak:
the trunk is one, then the tree divides into two main branches, the main
bifurcation, from which a thousand and one bifurcations of branches grow.
The being is just like the trunk of the tree -- one, non-dual -- and the
mind is the first bifurcation where the tree divides into two, becomes dual,
becomes dialectical: thesis and antithesis, man and woman, yin and yang, day
and night, God and Devil, yoga and Zen. All the dualities of the world are
basically in the duality of the mind -- and below the duality is oneness of
being. If you slip below, underneath the duality you will find one -- call
it God, call it nirvana, or whatsoever you like.
If you go higher through the duality, you come to the many million-fold
world.
This is one of the most basic insights to be understood -- that mind is not
one.
Hence, whatsoever you see through the mind becomes two. It is just like a
white ray entering a prism; it is immediately divided into seven colors and
the rainbow is created. Before it entered the prism it was one, through the
prism it is divided. and the white color disappears into the seven colors of
the rainbow.
The world is a rainbow, the mind is a prism, and the being is the white ray.
Modern research has come to a very significant fact, one of the most
significant achieved in this century, and that is that you don't have one
mind, you have two minds. Your brain is divided into two hemispheres: the
right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. The right hemisphere is joined
with the left hand, and the left hemisphere is joined with the right hand --
crosswise. The right hemisphere is intuitive, illogical, irrational, poetic,
platonic, imaginative, romantic, mythical, religious; and the left
hemisphere is logical, rational, mathematical, Aristotelian, scientific,
calculative. These two hemispheres are constantly in conflict -- the basic
politics of the world is within you, the greatest politics of the world is
within you. You may not be aware of it, but once you become aware, the real
thing to be done is somewhere between these two minds.
…
Now the story. It is one of the most beautiful among Zen anecdotes. Zen
people talk through stories. They have to talk through stories because they
cannot create theories and doctrines, they can only tell stories. They are
great story-tellers. Jesus goes on talking in parables, Buddha goes on
talking in parables, Sufi mystics go on talking in parables -- it is not
coincidental. The story, the parable, the anecdote, is the way of the right
hemisphere; logic argument, proof, syllogism, is the way of the left
hemisphere.
Listen to it.
GOSO HOYEN USED TO SAY, 'WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME WHAT ZEN IS LIKE, I TELL THEM
THIS STORY.'
This story really tells what Zen is like -- without defining, it indicates.
A definition is not possible because Zen in its basic quality is
indefinable. You can taste it but you cannot define it; you can live it but
language is not sufficient to say it; you can show it but you cannot say it.
But through a story a little bit can be transferred. And this story really
indicates, indicates perfectly the quality of what Zen is like. This is just
a gesture, don't make it a definition, don't philosophize around it, let it
be like lightning, a flash of understanding. It is not going to increase
your knowledge but it can give you a shift, a jerk, a change of gestalt. You
can be thrown from one corner of the mind to another...and that is the whole
point of the story.
NOTICING THAT HIS FATHER WAS GROWING OLD,
THE SON OF A BURGLAR ASKED HIS FATHER TO TEACH HIM THE TRADE
SO THAT HE COULD CARRY ON THE FAMILY BUSINESS
AFTER HIS FATHER HAD RETIRED.
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