Isan No Footprints in the Blue Sky ~ 06

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	6 Nov 1988 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 2h 3min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:47:22. Live music after the discourse.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1988 first edition : Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky (1989) other editions, translations and links
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shorttitle	ISAN06

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

Isan said to Kyozan: "Most of the people upon this great earth, with their limitless consciousness of cause and effect, lack the awareness of that original nature which they should rely upon. Can you tell whether they have this awareness or not?"

Kyozan replied: "I have experienced this difficulty." Just at that moment, a monk passed by and Kyozan called out to him, "Jari!" and the monk turned his head.

Kyozan commented to Isan: "This is a case of wide cause and effect consciousness without awareness of the fundamental upon which one should rely."

Isan observed: "It is a drop of lion's milk which will curdle six gallons of donkey's milk."

Once, Isan commented to Kyozan: "The whole day we argued about Zen and what did we get out of it all?" -- at which Kyozan drew a line in the air.

Isan observed: "If it were not I, someone would be deceived."

Question 1

Our Beloved Master, just before dropping off to sleep each night I silently repeat the word 'witnessing' twenty times, recalling the space itself as I do so. Inevitably, the first or second thought on waking is the remembrance to witness.

What is happening? Is the mind being hypnotized to remember the witness?

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