The Zen Manifesto ~ 03

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 2 Apr 1989 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 2h 13min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 1:54:53.
Live music after the discourse.
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video Available, duration 1h 13min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise.
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle ZENMAN03
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
Tanka asked Choro, "What is the self before the empty eon?"
As Choro was about to answer, Tanka said, "You're still noisy -- go away for now."
One day, as Choro was climbing Bol peak, his mind opened up into enlightenment. He took a shortcut down and went back to stand by Tanka, who slapped him and said, "I thought you knew it exists." Choro bowed joyfully.
The next day Tanka went into the hall and said, "The sun illumines the green of the solitary peak; the moon shines in the cold of the valley stream. Don't put the wondrous secret of the ancestral teachers in your little heart." Then he got up off the seat.
Choro came directly forward and said, "Your address today can't fool me anymore."
Tanka said, "Try to recite my address."
Choro remained silent.
Tanka said, "I thought you had a glimpse."
Choro then left.


Question 1
On commenting on ten Zen bulls, Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps write in the book, 'Zen flesh, Zen bones,' "May the reader, like the Chinese patriarch, discover the footprints of his potential self, and carrying the staff of his purpose and the wine jug of his true desire, frequent the marketplace and there enlighten others."
Beloved Osho, what is the purpose and true desire they are indicating?
Their comment seems to be contradictory to your explanation.
Question 2
Many years ago I enjoyed reading Paul Reps' book, 'Zen flesh, Zen bones,' although it only gave me an intellectual understanding of Zen. Since you have been talking on Zen, I feel that not only have you conveyed to us the flesh and bones of Zen, but in your silence you impart to us the very heart of Zen. Is it the Zen heart which Western intellectuals are missing, and if so, why are they missing it?
Question 3
You have recently referred to the "noncompetitive spirit" of the Zen masters.
Is competitiveness lacking in Zen because there is no sense of hierarchy -- because the idea of hierarchy is essentially connected with the concept of a supreme being, apart from and above man?
Question 4
Beloved Osho, Paul Reps in the foreword to his book, 'Zen flesh, Zen bones,' writes, "... That the one hundred and twelve techniques of 'Vigyan Bhairava Tantra' may well be the roots of Zen."
Beloved Osho, do you agree with Paul Reps?


(source:CD-ROM)


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