Rinzai Master of the Irrational ~ 03
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 26 Oct 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 58min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:47:05. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 3min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | RINZAI03 |
- 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
- On one occasion Rinzai said, "Followers of the way, you seize upon words from the mouths of old masters and take them to be the true way, saying, 'these good masters are wonderful, and I, simple-minded fellow that I am, don't dare measure such old worthies.'"
- "Blind idiots!" commented Rinzai. "You go through your entire life holding such views, betraying your own two eyes. It is only the great master who dares to disparage the Buddhas and patriarchs. From olden days our predecessors never had people anywhere who believed in them. Only when they had been driven out did their worth become recognized. If they had been completely accepted by people everywhere, what would they have been good for? Therefore it is said, 'the lion's one roar splits the jackals' skulls.'"
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, can only other enlightened beings, or people who are yet to come, be contemporaries of a master?
- Question 2
- Our Beloved Master, are you not the greatest, the most daring iconoclast of all time?
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