Osho Darshan Diary--The Sound of One Hand Clapping

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The Sound of
One Hand
Clapping
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers Mar. 1981
Pune, India

The Sound

o

f One Hand Clapping　

Chinese pinyin:

Yi zhi shou guzhang de shengyin

Chinese traditional:

一隻手

鼓掌的聲音

Chinese simplified:

一只手

鼓掌的声音

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English text

T

o feel one with the whole is the ultimate in

joy –

there is no higher joy. I

t is the ultimate in

love,

there is nothing higher than it.

I

t is the

ultimate truth itself,

because it brings

harmony, all conflict disappears.

L

ife

becomes a rhythm –

a rhythm

that goes on

deepening every moment.

T

he Zen people call it "

the sound

of one hand

c

lapping."

N

ow there are not two –

the music is there but

it is not a 'struck' music.

W

hen you play on

the sitar two things are needed –

the

instrument is needed and you are needed.

Y

ou have to strike the strings, it is basically a

conflict,

and out of conflict

only mundane

music can be born.

T

here is another world of music, another

dimension – in India we have called it

anahat

nad – '

unstruck' music.

T

he player and the

'played-upon' are no more two –

the musician

has become the music,

the dancer has

become the dance.

T

hat is

the sound

of one hand c

lapping.

T

he rose cannot become a rose

because its

whole effort is diverted

into becoming a lotus,

and a lotus it can never become.

I

n fact there

is no need –

if God wanted the rose to

become a lotus

he would have created a

lotus. H

e has created enough lotuses.

J

ust the other day i was reading, "

if God

wanted homosexuality

he would have created

Adam and Bruce." H

e didn't. I

t is so plain,

but

people are trying to improve upon God. H

e

has made everybody what he wanted...

– Osho

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

, ch. 1