Love is the essential religion The Buddha Disease #11
Discourse Overview
The discourse presents silence (deva shantam) as the essential doorway into vivid aliveness: when inner noise subsides perception sharpens and the world’s beauty becomes a liberating experience. Osho emphasizes that intense feeling arises only in quietness, so the practice is practical and immediate — relax the body and breath, feel the silence, and you will know what meditation is. Ordinary acts like eating and breathing can turn into prayer when done silently, and the anecdote of birds and garden sounds shows how mind-noise usually blocks natural music. Chanting the name of God (prabhu bhajan) is offered as a portable technique to carry silence into movement and daily life. On silence: the instruction is not to force but to rest in the felt quality of being quiet so the mind’s chatter naturally falls away. On beauty and liberation: encountering beauty without commentary is itself release because sensitivity opens and one touches the whole. On practice in daily life: make everyday gestures sacred by bringing stillness to walking, eating and breathing so meditation becomes continuous. On chanting and meditation: prabhu bhajan, whether loud or silent, anchors remembrance and helps you fall into and sustain silence while sitting or moving.
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Osho's Commentary
Ordinarily we live in a kind of fog -- we are surrounded by our own noise. And that noise is so much that it doesn't allow anything else to enter. The bird goes on singing, but the mind is too loud. Mm? these insects -- they are there.
[There are sounds from the garden surrounding the auditorium.]
... a beautiful music, but the mind is too loud and does not allow entry.
The world is really beautiful. And to feel beauty intensely is to be liberated. Intense beauty is liberation. And the only way to feel intensely is to be silent. The more noise, the less is the intensity of your feeling -- the more silent, the more intense. One becomes very very sensitive.
Eating, eat silently. And you will be surprised -- food is divine when you eat silently. Then just the ordinary gesture of eating becomes like prayer... it should be prayer.
Just breathing becomes such a beautiful experience. Just breathing in, breathing out, is enough of a joy -- more is not needed. So doing or sometimes not doing anything -- just sitting -- fall into silence. And the way to fall into silence is very simple: just relax the body, relax the breathing, and start feeling that you are silent... you are silent. No need to repeat it, mm? just the feeling that you are silent.
Soon you will be able to -- it will not be difficult for you, that's why I am giving you the name. It will be easy for you. And once you have learned the art of how to fall into silence, you have known what meditation is....
Prabhu means god, and bhajan means singing -- singing the name of god, chanting the name of god that is the meaning.
[Tonight the sufi-dancing meditation was happening in Radha Hall as darshan was in progress. The music and chanting could be heard in the auditorium.]
This is prabhu bhajan. And make it a point to chant it. Sitting, chant; walking, chant -- sometimes loudly, sometimes silently. Chanting help you tremendously.