{"id":2799,"date":"2018-02-21T16:12:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guruquote.net\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2018-03-09T16:50:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T16:50:37","slug":"person-hungry-can-understand-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guruquote.net\/index.php\/2018\/02\/21\/person-hungry-can-understand-music\/","title":{"rendered":"If a person is hungry, how can he understand music?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12  mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12 mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<p>If a person is hungry, how can he understand music? It is sheer absurdity to ask him to listen to classical music when he is hungry. Or to tell him to meditate or to sit in zazen. He cannot think anything about Buddha, cannot think anything about God or Jesus. He cannot meditate, his mind will flicker and waver; it will go again and again to his empty stomach. No, he cannot love poetry and he cannot love music when the first needs are unfulfilled. Give him fulfillment in the first, primary needs &#8212; food, shelter, love &#8212; and then suddenly the energy is released from the lower world and he will start reading poetry, listening to music; he will enjoy dancing. Now higher needs are arising: he would like to paint or sculpt. These are luxuries. They only come into existence when lower needs are fulfilled. And when these higher needs are also fulfilled &#8212; you have loved music, listened to music; you have loved poetry, enjoyed it; you have painted, danced &#8212; one day you will see a new realm of needs is arising called the ultimate needs: meditation, God, prayer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mp-row-fluid motopress-row mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-clmn mp-span12 mpce-dsbl-margin-left mpce-dsbl-margin-right\">\n<div class=\"motopress-image-obj motopress-text-align-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guruquote.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/osho2-1.jpg?fit=658%2C357&ssl=1\" title=\"osho\" alt=\"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 -- 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. 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