I Celebrate Myself ~ 03
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 15 Feb 1989 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 54min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:32:37. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 56min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | CELEBR03 |
- 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
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- One time, when Daiten came to Sekito, the master asked him, "Are you a Zen monk or an ordinary monk?"
- Daiten replied, "I'm a Zen monk."
- Sekito asked, "What is Zen?"
- Daiten replied, "It is raising eyebrows and moving eyeballs."
- Sekito said, "Excluding raising eyebrows and moving eyeballs, bring your original face and show it to me."
- Daiten said, "Please Osho, exclude raising eyebrows and moving eyeballs, and look at me."
- Sekito said, "I have excluded them."
- Daiten said, "I have given it to you."
- Sekito said, "What is the no-mind you have given to me?"
- Daiten said, "Not different from you, Osho."
- Sekito said, "No concern about you."
- Daiten said, "Really, there is not a no-mind nature."
- Sekito said, "Is there not a thing with you also?"
- Daiten said, "If there is not a thing anymore, that is the real thing."
- Sekito said, "The real thing cannot be obtained. So, that is what you understand. Retain it firmly and keep it."
- Daiten then left Sekito and retired to mount Reian in Southern China, where many disciples would later gather around him.
- Question 1
- I heard you say existence is non-judgmental, but our minds are full of judgments.
- Where do they come from? Are they also related to the idea of God?
- Question 2
- It seems that many of us are still plagued with guilt, even though we have been in your surgery a long time. No matter what it is, we feel guilty if we do, guilty if we don't -- a no-win situation. And the deeper it is, the more subtle and elusive it seems to be.
- Will we ever be freed from this insidious emotional blackmail? Is this the surgery you have been doing in these discourses on God?
- Question 3
- Our beloved master, in his book, Perennial Philosophy, Aldous Huxley writes: "Religions that make no appeal to emotions have very few adherents."
- Looking at how many Christians there are in the world as compared with those drawn to Zen, it would seem true.
- Are people attached to the idea of a god because it excites the emotions? That may include fear as well as love, but at least one feels something, and is for the time being taken out of oneself.
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