I Celebrate Myself ~ 06
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 18 Feb 1989, 19:00 |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 3h 36min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 3:17:15. Live music after the discourse. |
| online audio | |
| video | Available, duration 3h 38min. Quality: good, but part 2 has less volume sound than part 1 (under revision). |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | CELEBR06 |
- 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
- Shodai, who was born in 738 in China and died in 820, was a disciple of Sekito.
- Shodai stayed at mount Nangaku under Sekito for three years, then went to mount Shuko where he saw Ma Tzu.
- Ma tzu asked, "What did you come here for?"
- Shodai said, "I came here for Buddha's Jamuna darshan."
- Ma tzu said, "Buddha has no Jamuna darshan. Jamuna darshan is the world of delusion. You are from mount Nangaku, but it seems that you have not yet known that you need Sekito. So you should go back."
- Hearing that, Shodai went to Sekito. On meeting the master, Shodai asked Sekito, "What is Buddha?"
- Sekito replied, "There is no Buddha nature in you."
- Shodai asked, "What about all living beings?"
- Sekito replied, "They have Buddha nature."
- Shodai asked, "Why don't I have it?"
- Sekito said, "Because you don't accept it."
- At this, Shodai decided to stay there.
- Later, he lived in the Shodai-ji temple and did not go outdoors for thirty years. Whenever a seeker came to him, he would say, "Go away -- you don't have Buddha nature."
- Question 1
- So-called "modern Christians" particularly young Protestants, talk about God as if he is not a person -- like "God is everywhere, in every being, in every tree, in nature" -- not a person hidden in the clouds.
- Do they get the point or is it just out of cunningness, because they see that the old-man God has no grounds at all and no future?
- Question 2
- Our beloved master, Paul Tillich, the Protestant theologian, asserted that "God will remain somehow remote and 'out there,' unless there is a complete turnabout in which all references to the high and the beyond are translated into terms of depth. This infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all beings is god. That depth is what the word 'god' means. He who knows about depth knows about god."
- Would you like to comment?
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