Live Zen ~ 13

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	4 May 1988 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 0h 56min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 50:37. Live music after the discourse.
online audio	free download from OshoWorld purchase from Osho.com
video	Available, duration 1h 2min. Quality: good, but Osho arriving not so good.
online video
see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1988 first edition : Live Zen (1988.11) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	LIVEZ13

notes

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

The sutra

Joshu asked Tosu, "What if a man of the great death comes back to life again?"

Tosu said, "You should not go by night; wait for the light of day and come."

Setcho comments:

Open-eyed, he was all the more as if dead;

What use to test the master with something taboo?

Even the Buddha said he had not reached there;

Who knows when to throw ashes in another's eyes?

Question 1

Osho, you are one who has come back to life from the great death. Yet we who have not died are not nearly so abundantly alive as you.

Would you please talk about this?

Question 2

You are like an exotic flower or rare species of creature whom I have watched and listened to and tried to find words to describe for the past fourteen years.

To hear you talk of the state you are in is to feel endlessly in awe. One of the most intriguing things about you is that you are always so absolutely present and at the same time so totally absent.

Would you please comment?

Question 3

Osho, okay... I'm going to lighten up....

For a master of yaa-hoo and yaa-boo

What could possibly be taboo?

(source:CD-ROM)