The biggest deficiencies of our contemporary life are widespread of fast life and people’s having a very little time for listening themselves. However listening oneself and being able to be alone are the keys of all intellectual activities and  getting purified. The one who does not listen to himself  enough ignores the secrets in his soul. Listening oneself activitiy begins with getting rid of everything occuring out of the body and mind and with this activity one is able to get a chance for unifying with his true nature.

The most valuable inheritance left by wise and holy people is that: “KNOW YOURSELF “: So what was that means and what are the ways of knowing ourselves?
 

There is an old traditional  exercise in Tibet. One sits in a comfortable position,  consentrates and put all  his positives sides which are his good attitudes, positives things he does and has on his one hand and then on his other hand he puts his negative and bad sides . Now he has neither good nor bad sides… He leaves all the things on his hands on the floor.

Next step  is  the mask on his face. What is this mask? This mask includes one’s name, age, his country, education, financial  status, social status, talents  and his job. He takes all of these and leave them. Now when one has abolished the things which contructs all his personality, he starts to ask himself who I am and proceed to his pure conceit.

With these in mind, we can understand that the being we call “human” is not just a body but it  is beyond  a body  or a personality. As Mevlana says: "how many people i have seen, they have no clothes, how many  clothes i have seen there is no person in".  One day,  Socrates   wanders around with  a light in his hand in the day time, people ask: “ what are you looking for? “, he says: “people, I am looking for people…”

All wise people point that there exists a different mystery in ourselves beyond body and personality. When we go deep inside we understand that  the magical conceit  is a thing which is unified  with  nature and  is depended  upon universe.

Scientifically, it is accepted that everything is one at the atomic level  and also mentioned that all the  universe is an unified place. In our daily life this  information can chance practically, our point of view, our attitudes and broadly our life because we, by this way, can understand that we are a part of the nature and we are affected continously. We can accept that our soul and the soul of universe is one. So the one who knows  himself  knows all the universe and  reaches  the data of universe. Because the door opening to  the wisdom and beauty of universe are inside of ourselves.
 

In the hard process of getting to know the “self”, I can  advise  you a method;
Take a paper,  divide it into two with a line. Write  down one side “I “ and other side  “my” and then start your analyse:

Interogate everything you  identify with yourself;  if they are me, myself or they are mine…
 

It is obligatory that everything you posses  is going to be writen down to “my” side : body, organs, intelligence and emotions, fears, pleasures, job,  physical appearance. The side  “I”  is going to be empty. There   conceals  a big mistery  behind that emptiness. To reach  the deep inside of that emptiness  is in our hands. As we realized that  everything we consider is not us  but the components of us , we can  comprimise  with  life, nature and even  universe.

 

What is the place of  music in this  ideological system?
 

All religions and doctorines claim that on the base of creation there lies  sound. At the same time it is said that universe is created with love.  In the old indian inscriptions is written that: everything in the universe are  born from love, lives in love, returns to love. I mean, sound and love matches in all doctırines. In the essence of both  there is creative frequency. This first frequency, as it creates all objects, has created “human”. And in this sense, the essence of human consists of music and love like the essence of  universe.
 

It is sometimes said that God = music. In the process of  searching for  God,  music is the only  thing  which opens  easily its divine doors. Because its own  frequency  is unified  with   the creative  frequency.  This is why music  affects us  so much.  Also this is the reason  that in all known religions  payers are sang in the form of hymns. Moreover,  even if  music is not used in  prayers as in the ordinary way we think,   the flow of the prayers are generallly so musical. So  when we  listen to real music we amalgamate with nature  and as much as we keep open our  concious, we feel that amalgamation  deeper and clearer.

The great philosopher  Pisagore  matters to   phere music. This music can be hardly heard. Sphere music is born from the combination of  vibration of all  celestial bodies. And it is a kind of rhythm rather than a kind of music. In the world everything moves in this rhythm. The nature harmony, colors and sounds that we like and all  configuration exist  thanks to that rhythm. By the time we opened up the eye of our hearts and  incline towards nature , we are able to understand this universal music.  Some people are also are able to hear that speher music when they  listen to their inside. Even if it is hardly ever to hear that music,  people may think that  it is just noise or  echo or humming  when  they happen to hear it. As it is seen; not only when  we  listen ourselves  but also when we incline to nature, we find music. The muisc inside of us and outside make us reach to the essence of universe which is equal to the eternal  spring of happiness of universe.

Art of  happy life

We all have a common target. Ignoring  diffrences between believes,  incomes, social status, there is one desire  which i scommo  among all people: to be happy...
 

Consideration of happiness  changes  person to person. And the number of ways to reach happiness is endless. However, i guess, to be happy  is a special  art. All wise people say that hapiness is inside of oneself, it is not  somewhere  outside. Eventually, happiness outside is  temporary, sooner or later it replaces with  sorrow. On the contrary the one who find happiness in herself   never lose it. And that hapiness is eternal.

How can we make ourselves happy in  this  cruel world?
 

I think the first  factor of living happily is to learn living without prejudments. You know Einstein said: “to break atom into elements is easier than  to prevent  prejudgements in a  person’s mind”  in his immortal  quote. There are everlasting side effects of prejudgements: a lot of ill attiudes are resulted from prejudgements like judging, jeolousy, hospitality, unnecessary anxieties, arrogance.  However to live in a right and a simple way is to comprehend life with its all complication ignoring prejudgements. Tolarence is the greatest medicine and the source of happiness.

Another important factor  of  living happily  is not to lose the feeling of admiration for happy sides or events of life. We  should take our examples from our children: they show their execitement towards every new and beutiful thing without conceiling their feelings. We can behave like them. So we keep  ourselves awake to realize the beauty of life and this act makes us happy. We are cofronted with  negative events every day and react towards them, we should  accept positives with pleasure rather than getting accustomed to them. You can realize that negative things in media, on tv and newspapers are getting interest. And good news generally don’t get that much rating. I think this is danger alarm. There are miracles and beauty in life in spite of every bad thing.  People mention that they search for miracles or what they expect from life. But they don’t notice the miracles happening everyday.  To notice beauty  is  to appreciate it. And also being with people is like  a cure. Welcoming life with ceremony  gives pleasure. And we start to see  the joyful, happy  and bright side of world instead of the dark hard and painful side. This decreases daily burden of life on our shoulders. We shouldn’t be afraid of being like children.
 

The third important factor of living happily  is to smile and to laugh but sincerely, warmly. It is said that  you don’t lose anything when you smile but the person opposite gains something. You know, smile of a stranger i salways remembered.  In one of the most important Russian  movie, the leading character says that :  “ smile gentelman; don’t afraid to look like fool when you are smiling. Because all the foolish things have been done with a serious look on face. So smile gentlemen, smile”. Jesus said: ” be like children! You shouldn’t feel ashamed of being like  children. They are naive, far from prejudgement and kind.

The role of music for a healthy life

As I mentioned above: music is not only a thing that we happen to hear, but a frequency composing the world. Because of that music has a significant  place in our life.

Music that we listen to has a great power to affect our organism. When the frequency of music reachs us, it is captured by our aura and accrording to its  rhytheme, melody and beat, there brings about some certain effects inside of us. Nature which we are born into is a complete work of art and a kind of symphony. And this is the reason why we feel so close to some of or all kinds of music.

We  are energetic. The clearer and the higher the energy that we have, the healthier and stronger we would be. Humankind has already understood that we should be easy-going and get ourselves ready  for  coming energy to our organism. Prayer or meditation is one of the ways to get  ready. In addition to these, singing,music and dance  are used for the same target. The main thing is to get ourselves higher  which helps us to receive rays and energy.

Using music as a cure may have come out from the time of its existence. To be healthy means perfect rhytheme and tone. Because of that we need an outher support when the music of our body lose its harmony. This support consists of music, rhytheme and tone.

Our health’s getting worse means that music inside of us has spoiled. To cure such a position, firstly  music belonging to our body which is composed of pulses and hearth beat should be examined. And  after that, doctor can reach the best decision according to these data.  With this in mind, spoiled health  can be regained by arranging the rhytheme and the tone.

Nowadays music theraphy is trendy again and there are researchs which are  going on  in a lot of countries. However music theraphy may not always be resulted. The reason for that is that people’s ability to sense music is not developed enough.

Now, people have forgotton that music is a divine power. Unfortunately music has turned into a simple, joyfull tool. In the book “The Bridge between Man and Universe - Music” of  Sufi Inayat  Khan writes that god is in the place where we are reached by music, but we  are trying to distance ourselves. From chidhood, people soulbe get accustomed to the beauty and magic of music. To sense music needs education. Every person has a tendency to sound, music inside of him. But without that tendency, it does not evoke. I don’t discuss  on the musical  tendency we know  but  tendency to sense music.

It is hard to perceive the impotance of music without knowing the harmony of nature. If you are open to sense music, you can hear the music of a waterfall or a river or melody that wind brings or harmony of sounds around. But in reverse, all these sounds may be like unarraanged, meaningles noises.

In sum, I can say that:

What we know as music is a frequency that composes us and universe. How much we look inside of ourselves, the closer we get  universal music and then frequency and then intelligence and then love. In this situation we can reach  not temporal but eternal  happiness and spread it around. Happiness and love which are the common things we arelooking for  are not that far... They are inside of us.