The Language of Existence ~ 09

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 7 Sep 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 47min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 1:27:34.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: good.
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle EXIST09
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
Rinzai said:
Followers of the Tao, I am talking only about that which is distinctly solitary and bright, and is listening to my expounding of the dharma. This one knows no obstructions and is omnipresent in the three worlds of existence in the ten directions of space. It can freely and comfortably enter all the different states, without being infected by them.
In the shortest instant, it will penetrate deeply into the dharma-dhatu where it will talk about Buddhas, when meeting Buddhas; about patriarchs, when meeting patriarchs; about arhats, when meeting arhats, and about hungry ghosts, when meeting hungry ghosts.
It will go to all places and journey to lands where it will convert the living. It has never, even for the time of a thought, strayed from omnipresent purity and cleanness, shining through the ten directions of space, where myriad things are in the state of suchness. Followers of the Tao, men of ability know only now that fundamentally there is no cause whatever for concern. It is just because you do not understand this, that every thought of yours is directed to the pursuit of externals, like one who rejects his own head to look for another; hence your inability to apply the brake to your thoughts.
... What this mountain monk is talking about is just an appropriate medicine to cure a particular ailment of the moment because there is no fixed dharma. The holder of such a view is a true leaver of home, and can enjoy himself to the fullest, as if he were spending, every day, ten thousand ounces of yellow gold on his pleasures.


Question 1
Our Beloved Master, language is usually about the communication or transfer of ideas; and the understanding of most religions seems to be that one does not need to be given something.
However, Zen is different in that it appears to be saying one only needs to understand what one already has. Is this why you have called Zen "the Language of existence"?


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