The Language of Existence ~ 07

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 5 Sep 1988, 19:00
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 52min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 1:38:49.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 2h 3min. Quality: not so good, VHS-copy?; a constant audio-noise.
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle EXIST07
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
Tozan said:
The teaching of thusness has been intimately communicated by Buddhas and patriarchs. Now you have it, so keep it well.
Filling a silver bowl with snow, hiding a heron in the moonlight -- when you array them, they are not the same. When you mix them, you know where they are. The meaning is not in the words, yet it responds to the inquiring impulse. If you are excited, it becomes a pitfall; if you miss it, you fall into retrospective hesitation.
Turning away and touching are both wrong, for it is like a mass of fire. Just to depict it in literary form is to relegate it to defilement.
It is bright just as midnight. It doesn't appear at dawn. It acts as a guide for beings -- its use removes all pain.
Although it is not fabricated, it is not without speech. It is like facing a jewel mirror: form and image behold each other. You are not it, it actually is you.
It is like a babe in the world, in five aspects complete. It does not go or come, nor rise nor stand.
Ultimately it does not apprehend anything, because its speech is not yet correct. It is like the six lines of the double split hexagram: the relative and absolute integrate. Piled up, they make three; the complete transformation makes five. It is like the taste of the five-flavored herb, like the diamond thunderbolt.


Question 1
Our Beloved Master, those diamond thunderbolts you hurtle around you when you dance with us each evening -- at the rate we're going, someone could be knocked conscious!
But please, don't stop!


(source:CD-ROM)


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