The Language of Existence ~ 08
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 6 Sep 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 54min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:41:02. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 3min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | EXIST08 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
- The sutras
- Bukko said:
- It may be asked, how is the self to be approached? By looking into it through this sort of inquiry: forty years ago, where did it come from; and a hundred years hence, where will it have gone to? And right now, who is the person who is making the inquiry? That true face which was before father and mother were born, where is it right now? When suddenly one day the light of life, now so brilliant, will be withdrawn, where does it go to?
- In this sort of way, continued Bukko, look into the self. Look when you sleep, look when you sit, look when you walk. When you find you cannot look anymore, then you must look and see how that inability to look appears and disappears. As you are looking at how the sight comes and the sight goes, satori realization will arise of itself.
- On another occasion, Bukko said: The dharma is different from seeing, hearing, perceiving, knowing -- seeing, hearing, perceiving, knowing are all dharma.
- This mountain priest makes a home for the people of the wide earth. Without the dust being raised, they enter the realm of paradise.
- Lifting high his staff, Bukko said: Om, om, om! Haste, haste, haste! Quick, quick, quick! Bow, bow, bow!
- Throwing high, not reaching the sky; laying down, not reaching the earth. All the Buddhas and patriarchs find no hold at all. Hold, no hold. Om! -- divine streams rushing, rushing!
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, lately I have felt aware that we are just big vacuums, emptinesses, walking around with a facade of personality that does things and thinks thoughts. But Bukko talks of "approaching the self." Is the self anything other than that sense of emptiness? Are the questions just a means to discover there is no self?
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