Live Zen ~ 12

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 3 May 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 23min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 1:17:13.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 1h 28min. Quality: good, but Osho arriving not so good.
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle LIVEZ12
notes
synopsis
Reader of the sutras and questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.
After discourse Osho leads Let-Go Meditation.
The sutra
Seppo addressed the assembly and said, "All the great world, if I pick it up with my fingertips, is found to be like a grain of rice. I throw it in front of your face, but you do not see it. Beat the drum, telling the monks to come out to work and search for it."
Setcho says:
The ox-head disappearing, the horse-head appears;
No dust on the mirror of the Patriarch Sokei.
You beat the drum and search for it in vain.
For whom do the spring flowers bloom?


Question 1
Osho, why is the nature of the mind such that it doesn't know its own limitations, that it thinks it is indispensable?
Question 2
The words 'witnessing' and 'awareness' do not seem to appear in Zzen very much. Is it that witnessing is the ability to watch the mind running along its track without being identified with it, while Zen jolts the mind off its track into the gap of no-thought?
Question 3
I often have had the feeling that if I could really hear just one word of yours, really see just one gesture of yours, really fall into one small gap of your silence, I would have understood you at last.
Is that so?


(source:CD-ROM)


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