The Buddha The Emptiness of the Heart ~ 04
| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 11 Sep 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 49min. Quality: first 53 minutes are good, rest inferior. Osho leading meditation from 1:23:11. 10 minutes of live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 53min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | EMPTI04 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras/questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
- The sutra
- A monk asked Rinzai, "What is the attitude of the heart which does not change from moment to moment?"
- The master said: "From the moment you set yourself to ask this question, there is already the difference, and your essential nature and your action become separate.... Do not be deceived. In and out of the world there is not a thing that has a self-nature, nor a nature that is productive of a self. All is but empty names, and the very letters of these names are also empty.
- If you take these empty names for real, you make a big mistake. For though they exist, they belong in the realm of dependent change, are like robes to put on and off.
- There is the robe of bodhi, of nirvana, of deliverance, of the trikaya, of objective wisdom, of bodhisattvas and of buddha.
- What are you seeking in the realm of changing dependence? The three vehicles and the twelve divisions of the teachings, all are so much old paper to mop up messes. The buddha is an illusory phantom. The patriarchs are old monks. You yourselves, are you not born of a mother?
- If you seek the buddha, you will be caught by the buddha demon; if you seek the patriarchs, you will be bound by the patriarch demon. Whatever you are seeking, all becomes suffering. It is better to have nothing further to seek."
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