This This A Thousand Times This ~ 03

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 29 May 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 4min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 47:26.
Live music after the discourse.
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shorttitle THIS03
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synopsis
Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
The sutras
Hyakujo had a unique way of guiding monks. From morning till night he kept on saying, "Work for me in the field, and I will teach for you."
He thus made his disciples work in the field all the time; but he did not seem to be prepared to give any lectures or sermons.
Finally, the monks, not able to stand it any longer, went to the master and asked: "Would you please be gracious enough to give us an edifying sermon?"
The master's unwavering reply was: "Work for me in the field, and I will teach for you."
Several days passed, and the impatient monks went to the master again and urged: "Please give us a sermon." This time, he quite readily agreed to do so.
After a while all the monks gathered together in the hall. The master quietly appeared before them, walked up to the pulpit, spread out both his arms, and without a word immediately returned to his room.
One day Nansen was working on the mountain with a sickle. A monk came up the mountain path and asked, without knowing to whom he was talking: "How can I get to master Nansen?"
The master raised his sickle in front of the monk, and said: "I paid thirty cents for this sickle."
The monk retorted: "I did not ask you about the sickle."
"What, then," queried the master, "did you ask me?"
The monk repeated: "How can I get to master Nansen?"
The master said, "Oh, yes! This cuts well!"


Question 1
Beloved Osho, a few minutes jabbering nonsense, a few more minutes of silence, and then just totally relaxing. This simple meditation or exercise puts me in a state of such delicious, irrational joy that for several moments I am utterly content, absolutely happy to be myself as I am, in a world exactly as it is. This is what most people spend their entire life pursuing.
Presumably, this is why people take drugs, have love-affairs, marry and have children; just for this, that we renegades experience at the feet of the most dangerous man in the world. Anything to say?
Question 2
Beloved Osho, you speak so highly of the Zen masters, their ingenious and yet simple methods, and the innocence of the kind of people who could become realized through them. Yet while I do sometimes see you as a Zen master, I would not say your approach is characteristic of theirs. Is that because the kind of people you have are too cerebral, are so much out of contact with innocence and spontaneity, or is it that you have a different understanding of what is most effective... or both?


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