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Torkom Saraydarian was a gifted musician who composed and recorded hundreds of musical pieces for violin, piano, oud, cello, and guitar. He also wrote sacred songs and recorded many of them. He knew the power of sound and how it can uplift and heal. When we listen to sacred music or sing sacred songs, we are able to align our bodies and integrate them. Each musical piece is an exquisite creation that takes the listener to a higher level of integration. His music challenges t

On the one hand, you have the creative process – music, or art. And then you have the finished product – the piece of music that is played, or the work of art that somebody contemplates. When you ask, “Can art or music inform the ego of Presence?” – the ego doesn’t know anything about Presence, so it can’t do that. There needs to be some opening in the ego in order for you to be receptive to the power that is latent in music or art, that was created from that deep place. Ther

Osho talks about the trinity: mathematics, music and meditation. To me, music and meditation are two aspects of the same phenomenon. And without music, meditation lacks something; without music, meditation is a little dull, unalive. Without meditation, music is simply noise – harmonious, but noise. Without meditation, music is an entertainment. And without music, meditation becomes more and more negative, tends to be death-oriented. Hence my insistence that music and meditati

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, then you start, for the first time, hearing silence. Silence has a music of its own. It is not dead; it is tremendously alive. In fact, nothing is more alive than silence. Music helps you from the outsi