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OSHO
Darshan Diaries, "The Zero Experience," Chapter
#10
"… If somebody has been interested in music
he has already been in meditation unknowingly. Now the effort
will become deliberate and conscious.
Music is a subtle meditation. People who become interested
in music are really unknowingly moving in the
same direction as a meditator. The pull is the same, the attraction is the same.
One is hankering for a harmonious unity, one is hankering
for a silence but not a dead silence... a silence
which has a song in it.
A real silence is always a singing silence. A real
song is always, at the very heart of it, nothing but silence.
Music is a way to enter into that silence through sound.
It is paradoxical but the whole life is paradoxical.
If you want to move into silence you have to move through
sound. By and by the sound becomes more like
soundlessness. And that is the whole art of music: to turn sound into soundlessness and then to turn
soundlessness into infinite silence.
In China they say, that whenever a musician is perfect
he throws his instrument, whenever an archer is perfect
he throws his bows and arrows.
It is said about one great archer that he became so
great that he not only threw his bow and arrow; one day
when he was very old he saw the bow and arrow at some friend's house and asked what it was! The friend
could
not believe it. He said, 'So you have risen so high that you cannot recognize that this is a bow?'
This is the Taoist attitude -- that a technique has
to be learned and then forgotten; then only the fragrance
remains. The flower is gone, it bloomed, it faded away, but the fragrance is left.
When music is perfect no instrument is needed. One
simply closes one's eyes and it is there. When it is not
perfect we need the help of the instrument to feel it. When one is in harmony there is no need for any
harmonium. When the inner piano has started functioning all outer helps can be dropped. They are props,
supports; good -- without them it will be very difficult to move inwards... .
.... The mind tends to be serious. Playing music the
mind can become too serious about it; then you will miss!
You may become a maestro but you will miss something valuable. You will become a perfect technician,
expert, but the center will be missing.
The center evolves only when you learn how to be playful.
Then there is no seriousness. One simply improvises
as one goes; it is more childish, more child- like, more innocent.
Technique is needed but then
one has to forget it."
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1. Piano Songs
