Live Zen ~ 04

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	25 Apr 1988 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 25min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:11:03. Live music after the discourse.
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video	Available, duration 1h 24min. Quality: not good, video noise, especially the last 10 minutes.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1988 first edition : Live Zen (1988.11) other editions, translations and links
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shorttitle	LIVEZ04

notes

synopsis: Reader of the sutras and questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.
After discourse Osho leads Let-Go Meditation.

The sutra

When Basho was out walking with Hyakujo he saw a wild duck fly past.

Basho said, "What is it?"

Hyakujo said, "It is a wild duck."

Basho said, "Where is it?"

Hyakujo said, "It has flown away."

Basho at last gave Hyakujo's nose a sharp pinch. Hyakujo cried out with pain.

Basho said, "There, how can it fly away?"

Setcho says:

The wild duck! What, how and where?

Basho has seen, talked, taught and exhausted the meaning of mountain clouds and moonlit seas.

But Jo doesn't understand -- "Has flown away."

Flown away? No, he is brought back! Say! Say!

Question 1

Osho, Basho is said to have been the first Zen master to use hits, pinches, shouts and pushes to bring a disciple to the present. But such methods leave themselves open to abuse and to becoming simply a tradition.

You seem to devise a different method every day to outsmart us.

You are always at least one step ahead of us!

What do you say?

(source:CD-ROM)