The Hidden Harmony

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ 1 The Hidden Harmony 21 December 1974 am in Buddha Hall THE HIDDEN HARMONY IS BETTER THAN THE OBVIOUS. OPPOSITION BRINGS CONCORD. OUT OF DISCORD COMES THE FAIREST HARMONY. IT IS IN CHANGING THAT THINGS FIND REPOSE. PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THAT WHICH IS AT VARIANCE WITH ITSELF, AGREES WITH ITSELF. THERE IS A HARMONY IN THE BENDING BACK, AS IN THE CASE OF THE BOW AND LYRE....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ Old pond frog jump in water sound Finished! He has said everything. Pictorial: you can see an ancient pond, a frog sitting on the bank, and... the jump of the frog. You can see the splash, and the sound of water. And, says Basho, everything has been said. This is all life is: An ancient pond... a jump of the frog, the sound of water -- and silence....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ that these are climates, changes in season, moods that just come and go -- and you will see the gestalt in them. This German word gestalt is beautiful. It says there is a harmony between the figure and background. They are not opposites, they APPEAR opposites. For example: in a small school you see the blackboard, and the teacher writes with white chalk on the blackboard....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ your enemy," and he upsets the whole temple -- he is rebellious. A man who talks of love seems to be inconsistent. Bertrand Russell has written a book, Why I am not a Christian. In that book he raises all these inconsistencies. He says, "Jesus is inconsistent and looks neurotic. Somewhere he says love your enemy, and then he behaves in such an angry way -- not only with persons, even with trees -- he curses a fig tree....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ will arise. So Mohammed made a rule that every Mohammedan could marry four women... they are still following the rule. Now it has become an ugly thing, but they say they are consistent with the Koran. Now the whole situation is different, absolutely different: there are not four times more women now -- but they follow the rule....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ OPPOSITION BRINGS CONCORD. OUT OF DISCORD COMES THE FAIREST HARMONY. IT IS IN CHANGING THAT THINGS FIND REPOSE. PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THAT WHICH IS AT VARIANCE WITH ITSELF, AGREES WITH ITSELF. THERE IS A HARMONY IN THE BENDING BACK, AS IN THE CASE OF THE BOW AND LYRE. THE NAME OF THE BOW IS LIFE, BUT ITS WORK IS DEATH....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ branches are different: on one branch the Devil, on another branch the divine -- but the root is the same: DEV. There must be a conspiracy, otherwise the game cannot continue. There must be a deep harmony -- that is the conspiracy. Here God says to Adam, "You are not to eat from this tree of knowledge." Now the conspiracy starts, the game starts; now, the first rules are being set....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ Mulla Nasruddin had arranged for his wife to go to the mountains for her asthma. But his wife was not willing, she refused. She said, "I am afraid that the mountain air is going to disagree with me." Mulla Nasruddin said, "My dear, don't you be worried. There is no mountain air so brave as to disagree with you!...

< Previous | Contents ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ HOW THAT WHICH IS AT VARIANCE WITH ITSELF, AGREES WITH ITSELF. The Devil agrees with God, God agrees with the Devil -- that's why the Devil exists. THERE IS A HARMONY IN THE BENDING BACK, AS IN THE CASE OF THE BOW AND LYRE. A musician plays with a bow and a lyre; the opposition is just on the surface. On the surface it is a clash, a struggle, a fight, a discord, but there comes beautiful music out of it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Chapter 1 - The Hidden Harmony‌ not understood at all. He became more and more separate from the main current of Western thinking and the Western mind. Heraclitus was like Gautam Buddha or Lao Tzu or Basho. The Greek soil was absolutely not good for him. He would have been a great tree in the East: millions would have profited, millions would have found the way through him....