God Is Dead Now Zen Is ~ 01

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	6 Feb 1989 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 3h 19min. Quality: some muffled sound (under revision). Osho leading meditation from 3:04:38. Live music before and after the discourse.
online audio	free download from OshoWorld.com purchase from Osho.com
video	Available, duration 3h 34min. Quality: good.
online video	Edited excerpt: Sex and Death – Two Great Taboos (1min 48sec, a part of question 1) **
see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1989 first edition : God Is Dead, Now Zen Is the Only Living Truth (1990.05) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	GDEAD01

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 their first meeting, Seigen asked Sekito, "Where do you come from?" and Sekito replied, "I come from Sokei."

Seigen held up a whisk and said, "Did you find this over there?"

Sekito replied, "No, not only was it not over there, but it was also not in the West land."

Seigen asked, "You reached the West land, didn't you?"

To which Sekito replied, "If I had reached, I could have found it."

Seigen said, "Not yet enough -- speak further."

Sekito replied, "You should also speak from your side. How is it you urge only me?"

Seigen said, "There's no problem for me in answering you, but nobody would agree with it." Seigen continued, "When you were at Sokei, what did you get there?"

Sekito replied, "Even before going to Sokei, I hadn't lost a thing." Then sekito asked, "When you were in Sokei, did you know yourself?"

Seigen said, "How about you? Do you know me now?"

Sekito answered, "Yes, I do. How can I know you any further?" He continued, "Osho, since you left Sokei, how long have you been staying here?"

Seigen replied, "I do not know either. And you, when did you leave Sokei?"

Sekito said, "I don't come from Sokei."

Seigen responded, "All right -- now I know where you come from."

Sekito said, "Osho, you are a great one -- do not waste time."

Question 1

Edited excerpt: 1min 48sec, a part of question 1 **

Is God really dead? The very idea of his death creates intense anxiety, fear, dread and anguish.

Question 2

Is it possible for man to live without God?

Question 3

All the religions are based on God. Their morality, their commandments, their prayers, their saintliness -- everything points towards God, and you say that God is dead. Then what will happen to all these great things that are dependent on the concept of God?

Question 4

Our Beloved Master, is not the fantasy of an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God simply a covert expression of man's will to power?

(source:CD-ROM)

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