Communism and Zen Fire ~ 05
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 3 Feb 1989 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 3h 9min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:47:45. Live music after the discourse. |
| online audio | |
| video | Available, duration 3h 7min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | FIRE05 |
- 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
- On one occasion, a monk asked master Dogo: "Even if there is no cloud for thousands of miles, it is not yet the original sky. What is the original sky?"
- Dogo replied, "Today, it is good to dry wheat."
- On another occasion, Dogo was asked by another monk, "What is the deepest?"
- Dogo came down from his seat, made obeisance in the manner of women and said, "You have come from far, and I have no answer for you."
- At another time, Sekiso Keisho asked Dogo, "After a hundred years, if someone asks about the absolute meaning of the universe, what shallI say to him?"
- Dogo called the boy attendant, who came, and told him to fill up the water bottle. Dogo waited a while, and then said to Sekiso, "What was it you asked just now?"
- Sekiso repeated the question. Dogo thereupon went back to his room, and at this, Sekiso became enlightened.
- Question 1
- Are either communists or capitalists ready for the consciousness revolution of a spiritual terrorist like yourself?
- Question 2
- You have talked about the great Russian experiment. Can you talk about the great experiment of your commune here?
- Question 3
- I cannot help feeling shocked at the idea that since people have to die anyway, there is no harm in them dying by the thousands to preserve communism. What is it that horrifies me about this?
- Question 4
- Our Beloved Master, Emma Goldman, the anarchist, wrote in one of her revolutionary essays, earlier this century, that "Friedrich Nietzsche is described as a hater of the weak because he believed in the superman. It does not occur to the shallow interpreters of that giant mind that this vision of the superman also calls for a state of society which will not give birth to a race of weaklings and slaves."
- With the flame of Zen in one hand, you are the completion of the circle of man's search for inner integrity; with the flame of spiritual anarchism in the other hand, are you not also the completion of the circle of man's search for outer integrity?
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