The Empty Boat ~ 07

event type	discourse
date & time	16 Jul 1974 am
location	Lao Tzu balcony, Poona
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 27min. Quality: good.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1974 first edition : The Empty Boat (1976) other editions, translations and links
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shorttitle	BOAT07

The sutra

There were three friends discussing life.

One said:

"Can men live together and know nothing of it,

Work together and produce nothing?

Can they fly around in space

And forget to exist, world without end?"

The three friends looked at each other

And burst out laughing.

They had no explanation,

Thus they were better friends than before. Then one friend died.

Confucius sent a disciple

To help the other two chant his obsequies.

The disciple found

That one friend had composed a song

While the other played the lute.

They sang:

"Hey, Sung Hu, where'd you go?

Hey, Sung Hu, where'd you go?

You have gone where you really were,

And we are here -- damn it, we are here!"

Then the disciple of Confucius

Burst in on them and exclaimed:

"May I inquire where you found this

In the rubrics for obsequies,

This frivolous caroling

In the presence of the departed?"

The two friends looked at each other

And laughed:

"Poor fellow,

He doesn't know the new liturgy!"

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