God Is Dead Now Zen Is ~ 03
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 8 Feb 1989 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 34min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:09:11. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 31min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | GDEAD03 |
- 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 Seigen commented to Sekito, "Some say that an intelligence comes from the South of the Ling."
- Sekito said, "There is no such intelligence from anybody."
- Seigen said, "If not, whence are all those sutras of the Tripitaka?"
- Sekito said, "They all come out of here, and there is nothing wanting."
- On Seigen's death, Sekito went to mount Mangaku. Finding a large, flat rock, he built a hut, and from thence forward came to be known as "Stonehead," and later, when he was a master, as "Stonehead Osho."
- Hearing of Sekito living on a rock, the master, Nangaku, sent a young monk to him, saying, "Go to the East and examine in detail the monk sitting on the stone-head. If he is the monk who came the other day, address him. And if he replies, you recite to him the following song, 'you are sitting so proudly on the stone, it is better to come to me.'"
- The attendant monk went to Sekito and recited this song. Sekito replied, "Even if you cried tears of sorrow, I would never ever cross over the hills."
- The monk came back and made a report to Nangaku. Nangaku said, "This monk will surely make the mouth of the people tremble for generations."
- Question 1
- My deepest pain is that of being an outsider, that I don't belong here in this life, that I am essentially wrong, and death is just waiting to claim me unmercifully. That sense of belonging here, valuing myself and being valued by existence, and thus letting myself live and celebrate fully eludes me. Is this feeling the result of god-oriented religions?
- Question 2
- Is monotheism a necessary step in human evolution, or is it just an invention of the priests?
- Question 3
- Is it difficult for people to drop God because he is their only hope and they focus all their expectations on him? It seems to be very hard to drop an expectation even when one can see it as such and can guess that most likely it will end up in disappointment.
- Question 4
- Our Beloved Master, Nietzsche's foreword to his book, the Antichrist, begins, "This book belongs to the very few. Perhaps none of them is even living yet. Possibly they are the readers who understand my Zarathustra... Only the day after tomorrow belongs to me. Some are born posthumously."
- To understand him, Nietzsche continues, one must have "... New ears for new music. New eyes for the most distant things."
- Beloved master, do you find in us the capacity for those "new ears," those "new eyes"?
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