The Sound of One Hand Clapping
- "mind is just the opposite of meditation
- it is the closing of the heart
- meditation is the opening of the heart"
- notes
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- Later published as part of Osho Books on CD-ROM.
- The main text does not contain sannyas names, but the book starts with an index of Old name / new name / meaning / page number, see the scan of Pages XXVI - XXVII for an example.
- Colophon page:
- The darshans appearing in this darshan diary, the sixty-fourth in the series, took place from 1st to 23rd March, 1981.
- The Sound of One Hand Clapping is the last darshan diary.
- Bhagwan has now entered a new phase of his work where the communion with his disciples is happening in silence.
- Front flap:
- WEI-WU-WEI (action through non-action)
- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh enters into his ultimate phase of work
- From 1st May 1981 he will speak only through silence: the language of existence
- Epilogue: see Epilogue below.
- time period of Osho's original talks/writings
- Mar 1, 1981 to Mar 23, 1981 : timeline
- number of discourses/chapters
- 23 (see table of contents)
editions
The Sound of One Hand ClappingA Darshan Diary
Cover back & spine & front. Endpaper-front. Pages VIII - IX. Pages X - XI. Pages XIV - XV. Pages XXVI - XXVII. Pages XXXIV - 1. Pages 4 - 5. Pages 104 - 105. Pages 126 - 127. Pages 132 - 133. Pages 198 - 199. Pages 202 - 203. Pages 278 - 279. Pages 302 - 303. Pages 328 - 329. Pages 338 - 339. Pages 344 - 345. Pages 346 - 347. Pages 348 - 349. Pages 452 - 453. Pages 520 - 521. Pages 590 - 591. Pages 592 - 593. |
table of contents
edition 1981.05 chapter titles |
darshans | |||||||
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event | location | duration | media | |||||
1 | 1 | 1 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
2 | 2 | 2 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
3 | 3 | 3 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
4 | 4 | 4 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
5 | 5 | 5 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
6 | 6 | 6 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
7 | 7 | 7 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
8 | 8 | 8 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
9 | 9 | 9 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
10 | 10 | 10 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
11 | 11 | 11 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
12 | 12 | 12 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
13 | 13 | 13 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
14 | 14 | 14 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
15 | 15 | 15 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
16 | 16 | 16 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
17 | 17 | 17 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
18 | 18 | 18 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
19 | 19 | 19 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
20 | 20 | 20 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
21 | 21 Enlightenment Day Celebration* | 21 Mar 1981 pm | Buddha Hall, Pune | 1h 26min | audio | |||
22 | 22 | 22 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none | |||
23 | 23 | 23 Mar 1981 pm | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune | unknown | none |
- * Chapter 21 of the book contains quotes on celebration from:
- Come Come Yet Again Come ~ 14, q.3 (two quotes)
- Come Come Yet Again Come ~ 02, q.2
- The Secret of Secrets Vol 1 ~ 08, q.1 (two quotes)
- The Dhammapada Vol 04 ~ 06, q.6
- two unidentified quotes
- The Diamond Sutra ~ 09
- Come Come Yet Again Come ~ 14, q.3 (other two quotes)
Epilogue
- Gate Gate Paragate
- Parasangate bodhi Svaha!
- O All who go, O All who go in perfection
- O men who go to the ultimate Nirvana,
- Alleluia! O Samadhi Alleluia!
- On the twenty-third of March, Bhagwan spoke for the last time in darshan. For the following seventeen days he remained inside, not appearing for the morning discourse or the evening darshans. Finally, on the tenth of April, 1981, the announcement came: Bhagwan has entered a new and ultimate phase of His work. Now He will speak only through silence, the language of existence.
- For many years He has been preparing us, urging us, helping us get ready so that He could stop talking and could meet with us in a silent communion. He had been waiting for the right number of disciples to be ready. Now that has happened, and Bhagwan will be available to us on a deeper and more profound level.
- A secret transmission outside the teachings
- Not standing on written words or letters.
- Direct pointing to the human heart,
- See into its nature and become IT.
- This is the final darshan diary, the last in a series of sixty-four. These were Bhagwan’s last words sung in English. From this time onwards He will no longer be giving discourses in English and Hindi, rather a morning celebration of music and silence will happen each day. Bhagwan will be with us then in silence, it will be SATSANG, a silent heart-to-heart communion.
- For the evening darshans, Bhagwan has chosen Ma Yoga Laxmi and Sw Ananda Teertha as mediums for His work. While Laxmi is away, Sw Satya Vedant will be taking her place. The darshans have resumed with sannyas, blessing, and energy darshans all happening through his mediums.
- A most glorious day, an exquisite breath. There are no words to say the thank-you that needs to be said. Such a dance there is in the hearts of sannyasins today! Such immense celebration! There is vast joy, unutterable gratitude, unrecognisable bliss. It is the silent wind of the dawn.
- We thank you for your words
- We would have died without them
- We could not be borm without them
- There is no way to speak the gratitude ...
- We thank you for your song
- You cannot imagine
- What joy it is
- to be your sannyasins, what blessings!
- Oh Alleluia!
- What joy to have heard your voice morning after morning, evening after evening
- And the song of the birds
- And the distant call of the cuckoo
- I want to say
- we are filled now
- it is happening, now we can celebrate
- and join you
- beloved of beloveds
- in the greatest thing that could ever happen
- You speak to us in silence
- we answer in silence
- your message is silence
- our prayer is silence
- silence unbounded
- Let everyone come now
- Let everyone drink
- Let the gift touch this whole world!
- This is our prayer
- that every human soul will dance
- to the soundless sound
- that every human heart
- will hear
- the Sound
- of one hand
- Clapping
- where we dissolve
- as master and disciple
- where we disappear
- in the perfection of silence
- the soundless sound — anahat nad
- O Samadhi Alleluia!