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Intone a word ending with AH to enter the stage of relaxation

Intone a word ending with AH

Intone a word ending with AH

Any word that ends in ”AH” – intone it silently. Emphasis should be given to the ending ”AH.” Why? Because the moment this sound ”AH” is intoned, your breath goes out. You may not have observed it, but now you can observe: whenever your breath goes out you are more silent, and whenever your breath comes in you are more tense- because the outgoing breath is death and the incoming breath is life. Tension is part of life, not of

death. Relaxation is part of death; death means total relaxation. Life cannot be totally relaxed; it is impossible.

This AH is meaningful because when you say AH it completely empties you. The whole breath has moved out; nothing remains within. You are totally empty – empty and dead. For a single moment, for a very small interval, life has moved out of you. You are dead – empty. This emptiness, if realized, if you can become aware of it, will change you completely. You will be a different man. Then you will know well that this life is not your life and this death is also not your death. Then you will know something which is beyond the incoming and outgoing breath – the witnessing soul. And this witnessing can happen easily when you are empty of breath, because life has subsided and with it all tensions have subsided.

Use it as a mantra. Whenever you feel tired, whenever you feel tense, use any word which ends in ”AH.” ”Allah” will do – any word that brings your total breath out so that you exhale completely and you are emptied of breath. The moment you are emptied of breath you are emptied of life also. And all your problems belong to life: no problem belongs to death. Your anxiety, your anguish, your anger, your sadness, they all belong to life.

And when the breath goes out, ”HH,” everything is emptied. Effortlessly

in this moment, there is no need to make any effort. The SPONTANEITY: just be aware, be spontaneous, be sensitive, and realize this moment of death. In this moment you are just near the door, just near the door!- very, very near to the ultimate. The immediate has moved out, the superfluous has moved out. In this moment you are not the wave: you are the ocean – just near, just near! If you can become aware you will forget that you are a wave. Again the wave will come, but now you can never be identified with it, you will remain the ocean. Once you have known that you are the ocean, you can never again be the wave. Life is waves… death is the ocean.

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A method for those with a sensitive year

A method for those with a sensitive ear

A method for those with a  sensitive year(AUM)

Center on the sound “AUM” without any “A” or “M”, just the “U” remains.  You have to intone Aum, and you have to feel in this Aum three sounds separately: A-U-M. Intone Aum, and in the sound, you have to feel three sounds – A-U-M. They are there, infused together. A very delicate ear can be aware, can hear A-U-M separately while intoning. They are separate – very close, but separate. If you cannot hear them separately, then this technique cannot be done. Your ears will have to be trained for it.

So, in the beginning, you may feel it be difficult but try. Intone Aum, go on intoning it, feeling A-U-M. Three sounds are combined together in it: Aum is a synthesis of three sounds. Once you start feeling them differently, then drop ”A” and ”M”. Then you cannot say Aum: ”A” will be dropped, ”M” will be dropped. Then ”U” will remain. Why? What will happen?

The real thing is not the mantra. It is not A-U-M or the dropping. The real thing is your sensitivity. First, you become sensitive to three sounds, which is very difficult. And when you become so sensitive that you can drop the ”A” and ”M” and only the middle sound remains, in this effort, you will lose your mind. You will be so much engrossed in it, so deeply attentive to it, so sensitive to it, that you will forget to think. And if you think, you cannot do this.

This is just a method to make you very delicately aware of the subtle nuances of sound. Just doing this, you will forget Aum. Not only will ”A” drop, not only will ”M” drop, but one day suddenly you will also drop, and there will be soundlessness, and you will be a newborn buddha sitting under a tree.

The wind is blowing outside – it has a sound. ”Concentrate on it. Feel all the nuances, the changes: when the sound is angry, when the sound is furious, when the sound is compassionate, when the sound is loving, when the sound is strong when the sound is delicate. This is just an indirect way to bring you out of your head. So many ways have been tried, and they look very simple. You wonder, ”What can happen? Nothing will happen by such simple methods.” But miracles happen because it is just indirect. Your mind is being focused on something very subtle. If you focus, you cannot go on thinking; the mind will drop. Suddenly one day you will become aware, and you will wonder what has happened.