Zen The Solitary Bird ~ 03
event type | discourse & meditation |
date & time | 29 Jun 1988 pm |
location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 0h 58min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 38:25. 10 minutes of live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 0h 53min. Quality: good, but Osho arriving and leaving are inferior (under revision). |
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see also |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | CUCKOO03 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
- The sutra
- Once in an assembly of monks, Ummon held up his staff, and said, "We are told in the scriptures that an ordinary man thinks the staff is a real existence; that those of the Hinayana take it as nothing; that those believing in the Pratyekabuddha take it as an illusory existence; that bodhisattvas say its reality is emptiness. But I say unto you, take the staff as just a staff. Movement is movement; sitting is sitting. But don't wobble under any circumstances!"
- Ummon picked up his staff, and, showing it to the assembled monks, said, "My staff has turned into a dragon and swallowed up the whole world. Where are the poor mountains and rivers and great earth now?"
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, why do we go to such pains to avoid the obvious?
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