The Diamond Sutra ~ 04
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 24 Dec 1977 am |
| location | Buddha Hall, Poona |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 0h 59min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | DIAMON04 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the questions: n/a; questions are being read by Osho himself.
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, what has gone wrong? Why is it that people meet everything new reluctantly, and with fear, rather than with eager joy?
- Question 2
- What do you mean, Osho, by saying that life is perfect?
- Question 3 from Dinesh
- You sometimes say about people that they have missed again or lived in vain. That sounds like there is a goal or a point which can either be missed or attained, and then again you say there is no goal, everything just is, so how can I possibly miss?
- Question 4
- Beloved Osho, what is respect to a master? How do we respect you? Are rituals needed in honor of you? Can we joke with you?
- In sufi dancing we were told to think of something to make us giggle. I thought of you slipping, just like slipping on a banana peel. Is it disrespect or is it just okay?
- Question 5
- Beloved Osho, can meditation be passionate?
- Question 6 from Samata
- Osho, this morning, sitting by your stage after lecture, I felt as if I was sitting at your feet and you were sharing a beautiful story of waterfalls and trees and happiness. You were smiling and there was so much joy and yet when you left only minutes earlier there was a stunned feeling of having been hit over the head with a very big stick, hard.
- Osho, what are you doing to us? Are you telling us beautiful stories or hitting us over the head or what?
- Question 7
- Osho, you would like us all to become bodhisattvas. That means one has to make that firm decision to help others to the other shore. However, I do not feel able to make that decision. Sometimes I feel love towards others, sometimes I am just busy with myself.
- So should I wait or is the decision not such a thing as a statement but rather like a fruit that ripens by itself. And why then is Buddha a buddha and not a bodhisattva?
- Question 8 from Deepta
- Beloved Osho, whenever you talk about realizing one's buddhahood, you say it is sudden, like lightning, not a process, but what I can see happening in me is a very slow process of becoming more contented, less in the grip of the ego.
- Can you clarify the difference between that process and the 'sudden flash' that happened to you? Is there any danger in becoming too contented with the slow process?
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