I Celebrate Myself ~ 01
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 13 Feb 1989 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 3h 33min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 3:13:05. Live music before and after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 3h 34min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | CELEBR01 |
- 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
- Sekito said:
- "My teaching, which has come down from the ancient Buddhas, is not dependent on meditation or on diligent application of any kind.
- When you attain the insight as attained by the Buddha, you realize that no-mind is buddha, and buddha is no-mind; that no-mind, buddha, sentient beings, bodhi, and klesa, are of one and the same substance while they vary in names.
- You should know that your own no-mind essence is neither subject to annihilation nor eternally subsisting, is neither pure nor defiled. It remains perfectly undisturbed and self-sufficient. The same is so with the wise and the ignorant. Your no-mind essence is not limited in its working, and is not included in the category of mind, consciousness, or thought.
- The three worlds of desire, form, and no-form, and the six paths of existence are no more than manifestations of your mind itself. They are all like the moon reflected in water, or images in the mirror. How can we speak of them as being born or as passing away?
- When you come to this understanding, you will be furnished with all the things you are in need of."
- Question 1
- I have been surrounded since my childhood by people who wanted me to believe in God and to follow his commandments.
- Why are the God believers always trying to convert others?
- Question 2
- Would you agree with Stendhal when he says, "God's only excuse is that he does not exist"?
- Question 3
- Our beloved master, in his poem, "Song of myself," Walt Whitman writes:
- "You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the specters in books....
- There was never any more inception than there is now, nor any more youth or age than there is now, and there will never be any more perfection than there is now, nor any more heaven or hell than there is now."
- Beloved master, from the deification of a fiction to the celebration of one's self -- is this not the essential difference between the old and the new man?
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