Om Mani Padme Hum

The Sound of Silence: The Diamond in the Lotus

Talks given from 07/12/87 am to 17/01/88 am English Discourse series

1 The music of OM

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 The music of OM 7 December 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE FAMOUS 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....

10 We disown our past

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 We disown our past 26 December 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, ARE IDIOTS BORN OR TRAINED? Nirupa, it is a complicated question. Almost ninety percent of idiots are trained. Ten percent are born. And the ten percent are born because of those ninety percent who have been trained. Man from his very beginning has lived a very weird life – weird in the sense that it needs idiots....

11 The very nature of things

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 The very nature of things 26 December 1987 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, IS ENLIGHTENMENT BEYOND THE NATURE OF THINGS? Milarepa, enlightenment is the very nature of things. But it has never been said that way; on the contrary, people’s minds have been corrupted by creating a goal against nature, giving it beautiful names, “supernature.” And man was caught in this because of a very simple reason:...

12 Existence has its own ways

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 Existence has its own ways 27 December 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, I CAN RELATE TO THE TASTE OF GOOD GERMAN CHOCOLATE, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TASTE OF ENLIGHTENMENT? Devageet, mind has an incurable disease: the name of the disease is duality. It does not matter what the mind is focused on, it immediately creates a division – in the knower and in the known, in the observer and in the observed, in the subject and in the object; in short, between I and thou....

13 Reality is indivisible

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 Reality is indivisible 27 December 1987 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, IN THE WEST, CELEBRATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE AMERICAN IDEA OF HAVING A GOOD TIME WHICH IS SYNONYMOUS WITH NOISE, LOUD MUSIC, WATCHING MOVIES, SMOKING, SEX, AND RELEASE OF ENERGY AS SUCH, WHILE SILENCE AND SERENITY ARE AUTOMATICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH BOREDOM AND EXCESSIVE ACCUMULATION OF ENERGY WHICH RESULTS IN TENSION AND ANXIETY....

14 A rock among the waves

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 A rock among the waves 28 December 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, AS YOU GREET US, AND AGAIN AS YOU LEAVE, YOU ARE POURING YOUR ENERGY ON US. HOW COME MY BODY DOESN’T GRACEFULLY BOW DOWN TO YOU? I KNOW MY HEART DOES! AM I A ROCK AMONG THE WAVES? Deva Ashu, I myself have been watching....

15 For no reason at all

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 For no reason at all 28 December 1987 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, THE MORE I TRUST IN MEDITATION THE MORE I FEEL MY HEART OPENING AND VASTLY PRESENT. AT THE SAME TIME I LOSE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WHO I AM, WHY I AM HERE AND FOR WHAT. I CAN’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT EXCEPT WATCH, CRY, LAUGH, SING, GIGGLE....

16 The psychology of the buddhas

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 The psychology of the buddhas 29 December 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, WHAT IS THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE BUDDHAS? IT SOUNDS LIKE A SCIENCE ONLY FOR ENLIGHTENED BEINGS WHO NEED TO PULL, PUSH, SEDUCE, HIT OR KISS THEIR DISCIPLES AT THE RIGHT MOMENT, SO THAT THEY DON’T WOBBLE, GET STUCK OR FALL INTO TRAPS. CAN YOU PLEASE REVEAL SOME OF YOUR FINDINGS OF THE PAST THIRTY YEARS?...

17 Immediate and ultimate ordinariness

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 Immediate and ultimate ordinariness 29 December 1987 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, I HEARD YOU SAYING THAT WE ARE ALL ENLIGHTENED. IF SO, WHY AM I WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN? IS IT AN OLD HABIT? Veet Vigyanam, it is one thing to hear; it is another thing to understand. You certainly heard me saying that we are all enlightened, but you did not trust it – at least you excluded yourself....

18 Personality: the false disease

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 Personality: the false disease 30 December 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Question 1 BELOVED MASTER, AS YOU GLIDE INTO BUDDHA HALL, SLOWLY TURNING TOWARDS WHERE I SIT WAITING FOR YOUR GAZE TO TOUCH ME, A STRANGE OVERWHELMING FEAR GRIPS ME. I SAY TO MYSELF, “DARSHAN, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS OF BEING WITH HIM, WHY THIS FEAR?” THEN AS YOUR EYES CARESS ME, THE FEAR MELTS IMMEDIATELY, I MELT AND SOMETHING LOVELY STARTS DANCING WITHIN ME....