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West thinks that the mind is in the head, but the east has been thinking for centuries that the mind is in the belly. When the western people came across this idea for the first time, they laughed; they thought this was foolish!
Buddhist scriptures say that man thinks through the belly. They mean something else. They don't mean the thinking that we know as thinking: they mean universal consciousness. By the mind they don't mean the brain. The brain is in the head but it is just an instrument in the hands of the mind, and the mind is in the belly.
Freudian analysis comes a little closer to it in the concept of the unconscious, but it is still far away.
Our existence is rooted in the belly. There we are one with the whole; it is from there that we live. So go there again and again. Whenever you feel distracted, just go -- and you will be able to. Close your eyes and just settle there.
That is your centre, and by and by you will start hearing a sound. I'm not saying that you have to create this sound -- it is uncreated -- but by and by, the more you settle in the belly, the more you will hear a sound which is very strange.
When it happens for the first time it is unbelievable; one feels 'Have I gone crazy or what?' It fills you from the toes to the head; ripples of it come. It surrounds you, it overwhelms you and it is really great! You forget the whole around you. You become that sound, you pulsate with it.
That sound is very close to the sound 'aum'... Not exactly 'aum' -- this is just an indication of it -- but very close, almost like it. That's why 'aum' became one of the most important sounds in India, mm?
There have existed three religions in India: Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism. They differ in all their concepts -- their philosophies are absolutely contradictory to each other, they refute each other -- but about one thing they are in agreement, and that is the sound 'aum', because you cannot deny the existential.
That sound exists in the mohammedan 'amin' and the christian 'amen' -- that 'aum'. The sound is so subtle that you can hear it as 'amen', or 'amin' or 'aum', but it is the same sound; these are interpretations.
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