I Celebrate Myself ~ 07
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 19 Feb 1989, 19:00 |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 3h 9min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:49:20. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 3h 11min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | CELEBR07 |
- 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
- One day, Sekito announced to everybody that the next day they would weed the grass in front of the Buddha hall. The following day, all the monks gathered with sickles in their hands, but only Tanka came with a tray filled with water. Before coming there he had washed his hair, but it was not yet shaven. Now he kneeled down in front of Sekito, and seeing him, Sekito laughed, and shaved Tanka's head. As the master usually did, Sekito gave Tanka some specific commandments, but as he did so, Tanka walked away covering his ears with his hands.
- Tanka then left for Kosei to see Ma Tzu. Arriving at the monastery, he went into the hall and, climbing on the statue of Manjushri, sat there. The other monks were astonished and told Ma Tzu, who came in, looked at him and said, "My son is Tennen."
- Tanka came down, made a bow and said, "Thank you for giving me a dharma name."
- Ma Tzu then asked, "Where do you come from?"
- Tanka said, "I come from Sekito."
- Ma Tzu said, "The path on the stonehead is slippery. Did you fall over?"
- Tanka replied, "If I had fallen over, I wouldn't have come here."
- Question 1
- It seems that never has any god-oriented religion been more anachronistic than it is today; yet curiously, Christianity at least seems to be blooming. Born-again Christians, Jesus freaks, and fundamentalist Christians are rife.
- Are we seeing the phenomenon you have described when something is about to die? You have compared it to a candle going out, having a last, final spurt of energy before it splutters into extinction.
- Question 2
- Is it because of God that society created madhouses?
- Question 3
- Could it be that the word 'god' in ancient times, before the priests, was used by people to explain the unexplainable, the divine existence, the nature of being, the Buddha?
- Question 4
- Our beloved master, Nietzsche suggests that man only searches for truth because he presupposes that truth is a consolation, a cure. But, he says, perhaps truth "exists only for souls which are at once powerful and harmless, and full of joy and peace... Just as it will no doubt be only such souls as these that will be capable of seeking truth."
- Do you agree with him?
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