Zen The Solitary Bird ~ 15
event type | discourse & meditation |
date & time | 11 Jul 1988 pm |
location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 25min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:08:43. Live music before and after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 21min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise, Osho arriving is inferior (under revision). |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | CUCKOO15 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
- The sutras
- When the head monk, Ryosui, went first to see Mayoku, Mayoku took up his hoe and began to weed. Ryosui went to the place where he was weeding, but Mayoku deliberately took no notice of him and went back to his room and shut the door.
- The next day the same thing happened, but this time Ryosui knocked at the door.
- Mayoku said, "Who is it?"
- Ryosui had hardly uttered his name when he was enlightened and said, "Do not make a fool of me. If I had not visited you, I would have been deceived all my life by the twelve division canon."
- Mayoku opened the door and confirmed Ryosui's enlightenment.
- Ryosui went back to his place of learning, resigned from it, and said to the assembled learners, "What you know, I know; what I know, you don't know."
- One day Sekito was walking in the hills with his disciple, Sekishitsu, and, seeing branches obstructing the path, asked him to cut them away.
- "I didn't bring a knife," said Sekishitsu.
- Sekito took out his own and held it out, blade end first, to Sekishitsu, who said, "Please give me the other end."
- "What would you do with it?" asked Sekito, and Sekishitsu came to realization.
- Ryuge was asked by a monk, "What was it the ancients finally got, so that all their labors were over?"
- Ryuge answered, "It was like a robber breaking into an uninhabited house."
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, what can we learn from the cuckoo that will bring us closer to you?
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