Yakusan Straight to the Point ~ 04

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	20 Jan 1989 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 2h 23min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:00:58. Live music after a meditation.
online audio	free download from OshoWorld purchase from Osho.com
video	Available, duration 2h 21min. Quality: good.
online video	Edited excerpt: And Now the Sutra - a Zen Experience ... (4min 09sec, sutra + a part of answer) Edited excerpt: Zen and the Art of Escaping the Circle of Life & Death (4min 57sec, parts of sutra and Question 1) Edited excerpt: Unconditional Trust (11min 34sec, question 1 + jokes) **
see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1989 first edition : Yakusan: Straight to the Point of Enlightenment (1990.08) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	YAKU04

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

Edited excerpt: 4min 09sec, sutra + a part of answer **

Edited excerpt: 4min 57sec, parts of sutra and Question 1 **

When the novice monk, Gao, first called on Yakusan, Yakusan asked him, "Where do you come from?"

Gao said, "From Nanyue."

Yakusan asked, "Where are you going?"

Gao replied, "To Jiangling to receive the precepts."

Yakusan then asked, "What is the aim of receiving precepts?"

Gao answered, "To escape birth and death."

Yakusan said, "There is someone who doesn't receive the precepts and has no birth and death to escape -- do you know?"

Gao asked, "Then what is the use of the Buddha's precepts?"

Yakusan said, "This novice still has lips and teeth."

At this, the novice bowed and withdrew.

Dogo then came forward and stood by Yakusan, who said to him, "That limping novice who just came, after all has some life in him."

Dogo said, "He's not to be entirely believed yet -- you should test him again first."

When evening came, Yakusan went up into the hall; he called, "Where is the novice who came earlier?" Gao then came forward from the assembly and stood there, and Yakusan said to him, "I hear that Changan is very noisy."

Gao said, "My province is peaceful."

Yakusan asked, with much joy, "Did you realize this from reading scriptures or from making inquiries?", to which Gao replied, "I did not get it from reading scriptures or from making inquiries."

Yakusan said, "Many people do not read scriptures or make inquiries -- why don't they get it?"

Gao said, "I don't say they don't get it -- it is just that they don't agree to take it up."

Question 1