Joshu The Lion's Roar ~ 05

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 19 Oct 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 56min. Quality: good.
Osho leads meditation from 1:39:05.
Live music after the discourse.
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video Available, duration 1h 57min. Quality: good.
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle JOSHU05
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
A monk put the question to Joshu: "I have heard that you said that when the universe is destroyed the Buddha nature will not be destroyed. What is this 'nature'?"
Joshu responded by saying, "The four elements and the five components."
The monk asked again, "These are the very things that will be destroyed; what is this 'nature'?"
Joshu said, "It is the four elements and the five components."
Once, a monk was saying farewell to Joshu, who asked him, "Where are you going?"
The monk replied, "All over the place, to learn Buddhism."
Holding up his mosquito-flapper, Joshu instructed the monk, "Do not stay where the Buddha is! Pass quickly through a place where there is no Buddha! Do not make a mistake and bring up Buddhism to anyone for three thousand leagues!"
The monk said, "In that case I won't go!"
To which Joshu responded, "Farewell! Farewell!"


Question 1
Beloved Osho, the terror and the relief of having a master who promises to hit "just for the joy of it"! Is this what Zen is? -- when rationality, right and wrong fly out the window, the mind is on hold, and all one can offer is one's self?


(source:CD-ROM)


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