I Celebrate Myself ~ 02
event type | discourse & meditation |
date & time | 14 Feb 1989 pm |
location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 3h 3min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:44:36. Live music before and after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 3h 1min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | CELEBR02 |
- 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
- When Daiten first came to Sekito, the master asked him, "What is your no-mind?"
- Daiten replied, "The one who speaks is it."
- At this, Sekito shouted, "Kwatz!" -- and left.
- Ten days later, Daiten again came to Sekito and asked, "The last answer I said to you was not no-mind. What is no-mind?"
- Sekito said, "Without raising eyebrows or moving eyeballs, bring your no-mind here."
- Daiten said, "There is no no-mind to be brought."
- Sekito said, "Basically, no-mind is. Why do you say no-mind is not? That is the wrong statement."
- At this, Daiten was greatly enlightened.
- Question 1
- To us, are the words 'god' and 'no-mind' synonymous?
- Question 2
- Nietzsche made the observation that when "ordinary people" are in an unpleasant situation, "They always seek to get out of it with the smallest expenditure of intelligence."
- Is God simply the first and last resort of a retarded humanity?
- Question 3
- Through my own recent encounter with death, I came across many stories of people from diverse cultures and of different religious backgrounds, who temporarily left their bodies and appeared to observers to be dead. They reported seeing a "being of light," which was totally loving and compassionate.
- Could this "being of light" be the basis on which the concept of God has been created?
- Question 4
- Our beloved master, St. Bernard wrote: "Who is God? I can think of no better answer than: He who is."
- Eckhart stated: "Thou must love God as not-god, not-spirit, not-person, not-image, but as he is -- a sheer, pure, absolute one, sundered from all twoness and in whom we must eternally sink from nothingness to nothingness."
- If one substituted the pronoun 'he' with 'it', would not these two Christian mystics be speaking the language of Zen?
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