Roots and Wings ~ 05
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 14 Jun 1974 am |
| location | Lao Tzu balcony, Poona |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 32min. Quality: good, but a sutra barely audible. |
| online audio | |
| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | WING05 |
- notes
- Since 1992, first for re-mastered audios, this series is known as A Bird on the Wing.
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras/questions: Sw Ananda Teertha.
- The sutra
- Hyakujo called his monks together as he wished to send one of them to open a new monastery. Placing a filled water jar on the ground, he said, "Who can say what this is without using its name?"
- The chief monk, who expected to get the position, said, "No one can call it a wooden shoe." Another monk said, "It's not a pond because it can be carried." The cooking monk, who was standing nearby, walked out, kicked the jar over, and then walked away.
- Hyakujo smiled and said, "The cooking monk becomes the master of the new monastery."
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, every day when I sit here, I try sitting without a question in my mind, staying in the moment with what I'm hearing, not rehearsing, and trying not to rehearse. Then you say, "Anything more?"
- And it's as if a shield comes down and I can't reach you. I am talking to myself, and the mind is always making things safe for me.
- Question 2
- Beloved Osho, my mind is already working on the paradox I find between yesterday's talk and today's.
- Today you have been talking about spontaneity of response to new situations, seeing them as fresh. Yesterday, one of the messages from the story about Joshu was that situations are all the same, people the same. Hence Joshu offered three people a cup of tea.
- To me, this is a paradox.
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