{"id":453,"date":"2010-06-08T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/2010\/06\/08\/osho-on-music-meditation-and-silence\/"},"modified":"2010-06-08T06:22:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T06:22:18","slug":"osho-on-music-meditation-and-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/osho-on-music-meditation-and-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Osho on Music, Meditation and Silence ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i35.photobucket.com\/albums\/d160\/koolkat007\/osho_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Music comes closest to meditation. Music is a way towards meditation and the most beautiful way. Meditation is the art of hearing the soundless sound, the art of hearing the music of silence &#8211; what the Zen people call the sound of one hand clapping. When you are utterly silent, not a single thought passes your mind, there is not even a ripple of any feeling in your heart. Then you start, for the first time, hearing silence.<\/p>\n<p>Silence has a music of its own. It is not dead, it is very much alive, it is tremendously alive. In fact, nothing is more alive than silence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Osho ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Music comes closest to meditation. Music is a way towards meditation and the most beautiful way. Meditation is the art of hearing the soundless sound, the art of hearing the music of silence &#8211; what the Zen people call the sound of one hand clapping. When you are utterly silent, \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/osho-on-music-meditation-and-silence\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124,8],"tags":[16,18,108],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-spirituality","tag-meditation","tag-music","tag-osho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}