Sixth Sense :
That sixth sense, in the East, is called “the third eye.” It looks
inwards. And just as there is a way of looking in, so there is a way of
hearing in, so there is a way of smelling in. Just as there are five
senses moving outward, there are five counter-senses moving inward. In
all, man has ten senses, but the first sense that starts the inner
journey is the third eye, and then other senses start opening up.
Where Mind cannot Reach :
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its
own light. And it is utterly silent, immensely silent, eternally silent.
There has never been any noise, and there will never be any noise. No
word can reach there, but you can reach. The mind cannot reach there,
but you can reach because you are not the mind. The function of the mind
is again to be a bridge between you and the objective world, and the
function of the heart is to be a bridge between you and yourself.
Silence of the heart:
The silence that I have been talking about is the silence of the
heart. It is a song in itself, without words and without sounds. It is
only out of this silence that the flowers of love grow. It is this
silence that becomes the Garden of Eden. Meditation, and only
meditation, is the key to open the doors of your own being.
You are asking, “A while ago you said something about silence which
startled me in my sleepiness. I had simply thought of it as just an
absence—an absence of noises. But you were saying it had positive
qualities, a positive sound. And in my meditations, I have noticed a
distinction between a silence in my body and a silence in my mind.”
Your experiences are true. The body knows its own silence—that is its
own well-being, its own overflowing health, its own joy. The mind also
knows its silence, when all thoughts disappear and the sky is without
any clouds, just a pure space. But the silence I am talking about is far
deeper.
I am talking about the silence of your being.
These silences that you are talking about can be disturbed. Sickness
can disturb the silence of your body, and death is certainly going to
disturb it. A single thought can disturb the silence of your mind, the
way a small pebble thrown into the silent lake is enough to create
thousands of ripples, and the lake is no longer silent. The silence of
the body and the mind are very fragile and very superficial, but in
themselves they are good. To experience them is helpful, because it
indicates that there may be even deeper silences of the heart.
And the day you experience the silence of the heart, it will be again an arrow of longing, moving you even deeper.
Your very center of being is the center of a cyclone. Whatever
happens around it does not affect it; it is eternal silence. Days come
and go, years come and go, ages come and pass, lives come and go, but
the eternal silence of your being remains exactly the same – the same
soundless music, the same fragrance of godliness, the same transcendence
from all that is mortal, from all that is momentary.
It is not your silence.
You are it.
Even your presence will be a disturbance:
It is not something in your possession; you are possessed by it, and
that’s the greatness of it. Even you are not there, because even your
presence will be a disturbance. The silence is so profound that there is
nobody, not even you. And this silence brings truth, and love, and
thousands of other blessings to you. This is the search, this is the
longing of all the hearts, of all those who have a little intelligence.
But remember, don’t get lost in the silence of the body, or the
silence of the mind, or even the silence of the heart. Beyond these
three is the fourth. We, in the East, have called it simply “the
fourth,” turiya. We have not given it any name. Instead of a
name we have given it a number, because it comes after three silences —
of the body, of the mind, of the heart—and beyond it, there is nothing
else to be found.
So, don’t misunderstand. Most of the people… for example, there are
people who are practicing yoga exercises. Yoga exercises give a silence
of the body, and they are stuck there. Their whole life, they practice,
but they know only the most superficial silence. Then there are people
who are doing concentrations like transcendental meditation, of
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It can give you a silence which will be only of
the mind. Just by repeating a name or a mantra… the very repetition
creates in its wake, a silence in the mind. But it is not meditation,
and it is not transcendental.
And there are Sufis who know the third, which is the deepest of the
three. But still it is not the goal, the target; your arrow is still
falling short. It is very deep because Sufis know the heart more than
anybody else. For centuries they have been working on the heart, just as
yogis have been working on the body, and people of concentration and
contemplation have been working on the mind.
The Sufis know the immense beauty of love. They radiate love, but
still the home has not been reached. You have to remember the fourth.
Unless you reach the fourth, continue the journey.
People misunderstand very easily. Just a little bit of experience and
they think they have arrived. And mind is very clever to rationalize.
There is a Sufi story about Mulla Nasruddin. The Mulla hears a
commotion in the street outside his house in the middle of the night.
His wife tells him to go down, and after many arguments he puts a
blanket on his shoulders and goes down to the street. There were many
people in the street and a lot of noise, and in the crowd somebody
steals his blanket.
The Mulla goes home naked, and his wife asks him, “What was that all
about?” The Mulla says, “It seems to be about my blanket, because as
they got the blanket they all disappeared. They were just waiting for
the blanket. And I was telling you `Don’t force me to go there.’ Now I
have lost my blanket and I have come naked. It was none of our
business.”
He has found a rationalization, and it looks logical, that as they
got his blanket they all disappeared. And the poor Mulla thinking that
perhaps that was the whole problem….
“Their argument and their noise just in front of my house in the
middle of the night, and my foolish wife persuaded me finally to lose my
blanket!”
Mind is continuously rationalizing, and sometimes it may appear that
what it is saying is right, because it gives arguments for it. But one
has to beware of one’s own mind, because in this world nobody can cheat
you more than your own mind. Your greatest enemy is within you, just as
your greatest friend is also within you.
The greatest enemy is just your first encounter, and your greatest
friend is going to be your last encounter–so don’t be prevented by any
experience of the body or the mind or the heart. Remember always one of
the famous statements of Gautam Buddha. He used to conclude his sermons
every day with the same two words, charaiveti, charaiveti.” Those two simple words—just one word repeated twice—means “Don’t stop; go on, go on.”
Never stop until the road ends, until there is nowhere else to go—charaiveti, charaiveti.
-Osho
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