I Celebrate Myself ~ 04
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 16 Feb 1989 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 14min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:42:34. 14 minutes of live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 7min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | CELEBR04 |
- 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's "Song of the grass hut."
- I make a grass hut in which inside there is no worldly treasure. I eat and sleep naturally and easily. When I made the hut, the reeds were new. When the hut gets torn, I cover it with reeds again. The person living in the hut is always there. He does not belong to inside or outside. I do not live where ordinary people live; I do not love what ordinary people love.
- Although the hut is small, it contains the dharma world. A man of Zen understands it well. Bodhisattvas of the supreme vehicle have no doubt about it, but the mediocre are bound to be dubious.
- If I were asked whether this hut breaks down or not, I would say that the subject is originally both in the breakable and unbreakable. I don't live in the North or South or the West or East.
- The foundation of the hut is the most solid. Under the green pine tree, in the hut's bright window -- even a golden palace can't compare. If I cover myself with the old quilt, everything settles. Then I don't understand anything.
- Living in this hut, I stop looking for any solutions. Who would put them proudly in the show window for the people to buy?
- When evening comes and the sun is setting, I come back to the hut. My being is so vast that there are no divisions. Meeting with the intimate teachings of the ancestral master, I made a hut with grasses and don't think of leaving. I just let the hundred years go as they pass by.
- If I move with my hands open, there is no problem. A thousand words, ten thousand solutions, only keep you in ignorance. If you want to know the immortal person in the hut, why do you go away from this skin bag?
- Question 1
- Now being free from the concept of God, is our newly found dignity that you spoke of the other day, not prone to become entangled in the ego?
- Question 2
- In the first lecture of the series, God is dead, now Zen is the only living truth, you said: "Existence needs you." For me this is like a new belief because I don't know this.
- Question 3
- Our beloved master, Alan Watts had a novel idea for how Easter should be spent. "Every Easter Sunday should be celebrated with a solemn and reverent burning of the holy scriptures," he suggested, "for the whole meaning of the resurrection and ascension of Christ into heaven (which is within you) is that god-manhood is to be discovered here and now, inwardly, not in the letter of the Bible."
- What do you think of his idea?
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