Meditation is simple. In this blog, you’ll learn a technique that you can include in your daily life easily.
This technique is about using sound to become more aware of the silence, the stillness inside us.
In today’s world, we are always surrounded by sound especially in big crowded cities often overwhelmed by the constant cacophony of the sound.
We can turn this into an opportunity for meditation. Here is how we can do it:
Close your eyes and feel the whole universe filled with sound. Feel as if every sound is moving toward you and you are the center.
Feel that these sounds are coming towards you, falling into you just as the sounds of the continuous falling water.
Osho says not to start thinking about the sounds – that this is good and that is bad, and this is disturbing and that is very beautiful, etc. Simply think of the center. Just remember that you are the center and all the sounds are moving toward you – every sound, whatever the sort.
Just relax into these sounds and you will feel you have become more soft, more open and then you bring your attention to the center where all these sounds are falling.
And as you can feel that center where every single sound is being heard, suddenly there will be a shift in your consciousness. One moment you will listening to all the sounds of the world and the next moment your awareness will turn in and feel that center suddenly.
You will feel the soundless silence and as you connect to that point, there will be a point when no sound could enter inside you. Just silence remains and that point is you in deep listening silence happens.
Osho’s wisdom is at the heart of this meditation. He beautifully distinguishes between hearing and listening, with the latter requiring our full presence and awareness.
Hearing is often physiological and passive. But listening requires presence and awareness. This technique is about the art of listening – using the auditory dimension of meditation to come back to that soundlessness, the silence within us.
