Osho Rajneesh Book "The New Alchemy: To Turn You On"

The New Alchemy: To Turn You On

The Lesson of Harmony

12 April 1973 am in Bikaner Palace Hotel

STORE IN YOUR MEMORY THE MELODY YOU HEAR.

... ONLY FRAGMENTS OF THE GREAT SOUND COME TO YOUR EARS WHILE YET YOU ARE

BUT MAN. BUT IF YOU LISTEN TO IT, REMEMBER IT FAITHFULLY, SO THAT NONE WHICH HAS REACHED YOU IS LOST, AND ENDEAVOR TO LEARN FROM IT THE MEANING OF THE MYSTERY WHICH SURROUNDS YOU. IN TIME YOU WILL NEED NO TEACHER. FOR AS THE INDIVIDUAL HAS VOICE, SO HAS THAT IN WHICH THE INDIVIDUAL EXISTS.

STORE IN YOUR MEMORY THE MELODY YOU HEAR. There are moments, rare, unique, but still

there are moments when you come nearer to the melody of existence. Situations may be different,

but the melody is the same. A child running after a butterfly, a child picking flowers in a garden, a

child just lying relaxed on the grass, feels a certain harmony in the existence, feels a certain melody.

In that moment, lying on the grass relaxed or running – running for a butterfly, or running to gather

flowers – or, not doing anything: just playing with pebbles on the shore – in that moment, the child

is totally one with existence. There is no regret, no negativity. The child accepts the existence as it

is and is accepted by existence.

When you accept existence, the existence accepts you. When you reject, you are rejected. You are

echoed by existence. Whatsoever you do with it is done with you.

The child accepts. There is no past for the child, no future. The moment, the present moment, is

enough. The child exists here and now. Then he feels a certain harmony; a melody is felt.

That is why, later on, even when you become very old, you go on remembering childhood; you go on

saying childhood was a paradise. Why? Because many moments happened when you were totally

accepting. And a child is totally accepting. The moment the child starts rejecting, he is no longer a

child. Childhood is lost, paradise is lost.

Remember some moments of your childhood when you had the feeling that life was bliss, that just

to be was ecstatic. Just to be, just to breathe, was enough. You didn’t need anything to make you

blissful. Whatsoever you were was enough to be blissful.

Gather those moments. Remember them, relive them. Sometimes, forget your age. Close your

eyes and move back, regress, be a child again. Not just remembering, but reliving. Be a child again.

In your memory, run as a child, sing as a child, play as a child. Just replay your childhood again and

you will get a new light, a new awakening. A new life energy will run through you.

When you were young, you loved someone. Again, there was ecstasy. Again, you felt absolutely

okay. Nothing was wrong. Life was good; everything was as it should be. Again, a moment. Gather,

nourish, such moments. Go into them again and again.

Then you were old – sitting in some temple meditating, or in some mosque praying, or in some

church. And again, you felt a silence entering you.

Collect all these moments, because they will make you more capable and sensitive to hear the

greater music of the spheres. They are only fragments, but you have heard in them something that

goes beyond you. Whatsoever the situation – if a certain happiness descended upon you, cherish

that moment and make a part of your heart vacant from all other memories. Collect these memories

of blissful music that you have sometimes heard; it will be helpful.

You cannot hear the whole of the music suddenly. You can hear it only in fragments, because the

mind is such a small thing. The aperture of the mind is very small and the sky is very big. You can

only see fragments. But, collect those fragments. Create a unity in them, feel a certain oneness

in them, and you will become more capable, more sensitive, more alive to receive more. You will

become more receptive.

But, look at the human mind. It collects miseries, it collects sufferings, it collects pains. It never

collects happy moments. It goes on collecting misery upon misery. Then life becomes a hell. It is

your collection; it is your way of looking at things.

You go on saying that happiness is just momentary. But no one says that suffering is momentary,

no one says that anguish is momentary. You go on feeling that anguish is permanent, suffering is

permanent, and happiness is just momentary. This is wrong. Both are similar and equal. Both are

momentary.

And ultimately, the reverse is true. Suffering proves to be momentary and bliss proves to be eternal.

But right now, with this mind, everything is momentary. Suffering comes and goes, bliss comes and

goes. But you go on collecting suffering so it appears to be permanent; and you never collect, you

never cherish and nourish, happiness and happy moments so they look momentary.

This is your choice. Change this choice – because with too much suffering collected, you will gather

more suffering. Suffering will increase; you are helping it to increase. Then a moment may come

when you are so clouded with suffering that you cannot see any possible bliss. Then you become

totally negative.

Do quite the contrary. Only that will be a help for your meditation. Whenever suffering happens, don’t

collect it. Allow it to happen, but don’t nourish it. Why go on talking about it? Everyone talks about

his suffering. Why is there so much emphasis on it? Why give so much attention to it? Remember

one of the laws: that whatsoever you pay much attention to grows. Attention is a growth helping

element. If you pay attention to something, it grows more.

Now, biologists say that a child grows more if he is loved because, through love, he gets more

attention. Even a plant grows more if the gardener gives attention to it. If it is neglected, if everything

else is given to it – the right soil, fertilizers, rain, sunrays; everything is given to it except conscious

attention – it takes a longer time to grow. Now this is a scientific fact: observed and found correct. If

you love the plant and you pay much attention to it, if you talk to it, if you sometimes say to it, ”I love

you,” it grows faster. Attention is a vitamin.

The most vital thing in existence is attention. If no one loves you, you start withering away. If no

one pays attention to you, death settles in. You want to die. If someone pays attention to you, you

become alive again. Attention is life, elan vital.

If no one loves you, you will commit suicide, because you are not capable of loving yourself. If you

were capable of loving yourself, if you were capable of giving attention to yourself, you would not

need anyone else’s attention. A Buddha can live alone on this earth. You cannot. If you are alone,

you will immediately commit suicide. You will say, ”What is the use? Why should I live? Who will

love me? Whom shall I love?”

Inside also, psychologically also, the same law applies. If you pay much attention to suffering, you

help it to grow. If you pay much attention to happiness, you help it to grow. Don’t be your own

enemy. If you are immersed in suffering it is because you have been paying attention to the wrong

things. Shift your attention. Even if you have only one memory of a blissful moment it is enough.

Pay attention to it and it will grow. The seed will grow and it will become a big tree. I hen you can

rest in its shade, you can dance in its shadow. You can relax under it.

This sutra says STORE IN YOUR MEMORY THE MELODY YOU HEAR. Wherever you have heard

the melody of life, wherever. Happiness means melody. Suffering means an anarchic experience, a

chaotic experience. Suffering means a crowd of unrelated experiences: noise, with no music in it.

Happiness means music. Not noise but an inner harmony; not chaos but an inner unity.

STORE IN YOUR MEMORY THE MELODY YOU HEAR, and then it will grow and one day you will

become capable of hearing the whole of the universal music. Then you will need no teacher. Then

you will not need to learn from anyone else. Then you will be directly in contact with the divine and

no mediator will be needed.

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