Core Insight:
According to Osho, inner ‘hearing’—bells, mantras, any sound—is only a technique that concentrates the mind and can hypnotize, giving peace by stopping thought. But meditation itself begins only when all sound—outer or inner—fades and the mind dissolves into no-mind: utter silence. Use sound as a bridge, then drop it; otherwise attachment to hearing becomes the obstacle that prevents the flowering of true meditative silence.