The Buddha The Emptiness of the Heart ~ 04

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 11 Sep 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 49min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 1:23:11.
10 minutes of live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 1h 53min. Quality: good.
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle EMPTI04
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
A monk asked Rinzai, "What is the attitude of the heart which does not change from moment to moment?"
The master said: "From the moment you set yourself to ask this question, there is already the difference, and your essential nature and your action become separate.... Do not be deceived. In and out of the world there is not a thing that has a self-nature, nor a nature that is productive of a self. All is but empty names, and the very letters of these names are also empty.
If you take these empty names for real, you make a big mistake. For though they exist, they belong in the realm of dependent change, are like robes to put on and off.
There is the robe of bodhi, of nirvana, of deliverance, of the trikaya, of objective wisdom, of bodhisattvas and of buddha.
What are you seeking in the realm of changing dependence? The three vehicles and the twelve divisions of the teachings, all are so much old paper to mop up messes. The buddha is an illusory phantom. The patriarchs are old monks. You yourselves, are you not born of a mother?
If you seek the buddha, you will be caught by the buddha demon; if you seek the patriarchs, you will be bound by the patriarch demon. Whatever you are seeking, all becomes suffering. It is better to have nothing further to seek."


Question 1
Our Beloved Master, I think I heard you say recently that when we are aware of our emptiness, when we are conscious -- even if it is only for an instant -- we are in the same state that you are always in. But, isn't it that your state of consciousness is not just quantitatively different from ours -- in that you are conscious twenty-four hours a day -- but is qualitatively different?
I love you and I love that space of emptiness that I feel. Why then this reluctance to accept that my emptiness is the same as yours?


(source:CD-ROM)


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