The Language of Existence ~ 04

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 2 Sep 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 29min. Quality: good, but a constant noise.
Osho leading meditation from 1:08:26.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 1h 33min. Quality: good, but a strong constant audio-noise (the rain?).
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle EXIST04
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
Bukko said:
The way out of life-and-death is not some special technique; the essential thing is to see through to the root of life-and-death. That root is not something that fell from heaven or sprang up from earth. It is at the center of the functioning of every man, living with his life, dying with his death, becoming a buddha, making a patriarch. These are all in dependence of it, and one who goes into Zen has to pierce and break through to this thing.
What is called Zen sitting is not some sort of operation to be performed, and to take it so is wrong. In our line, it is simply realizing what one's own true heart really is, and it is necessary to pledge oneself to the true heart.
Going into Zen is seeing one's original nature, and the main thing is to make out what one was before even father or mother were born. For this, one must concentrate one's feeling and purify it, then, eliminating all that weighs on one's thought and feeling, one must go to grasp the self.
We are saying that the self seeks to grasp the self, but in fact it is already the self, so why should it go to grasp the self?
It is because in the mass of knowings and perceivings and judgments, the true self is always so wrapped up in the distinctions and exclusivities that it does not emerge to show itself as it is.


Question 1
Our Beloved Master, I am seriously concerned: Last night when you were speaking of the senses, as traditionally classified, you did not mention the eighth sense, the sense of humor. What happened?


(source:CD-ROM)


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