I Celebrate Myself ~ 05

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 17 Feb 1989 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 3h 28min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 3:10:53.
Live music before and after the discourse.
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video Available, duration 3h 27min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise.
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle CELEBR05
notes
synopsis
Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
The sutras
Gosetsu after becoming a monk under Ma Tzu, came to Sekito and said, "If you settle this with one word, I will stay here. If not, I will leave."
Sekito, knowing that this man had promise, made a gesture, but Gosetsu did not get it. So Gosetsu took his leave and made for the gate, when Sekito called to him "Teacher!"
Gosetsu turned around, and Sekito said, "From birth to old age, it is only the fellow there and nothing else -- don't look anywhere further."
At this, Gosetsu was greatly enlightened. He stepped on his stick to break it and stayed there.
Once, Sekito said to his assembled monks, "Even if language is used, it is irrelevant."
Hearing this, Yakusan said, "Even if language is not used, it is irrelevant."
Sekito said, "Here, even a needle cannot get through."
Yakusan said, "Here, it is like planting a flower on a rock."
Sekito indicated his approval of what Yakusan said.


Question 1
God is a fiction of the mind, an invention of religious politicians. But my mind wants fictions, hopes, future. Is this natural?
Question 2
Our beloved master, Hubert Benoit suggests that even those people who are sufficiently intellectually evolved not to believe in a personal god, still retain the concept, although in different terms.
He says, "They imagine their satori and themselves after their satori, and that is their personal god -- a coercive idol, disquietening, implacable. They must realize themselves, they must liberate themselves. They are terrified at the thought of not being able to get there, and they are elated by any inner phenomenon which gives them hope."
Beloved master, would you agree that there is a danger of this happening to meditators?


(source:CD-ROM)


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