Yakusan Straight to the Point ~ 05

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 21 Jan 1989 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 2h 12min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 1:57:21.
Live music after a meditation.
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video Available, duration 2h 14min. Quality: good.
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle YAKU05
notes
synopsis
Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
The sutras
Once, Yakusan asked his disciple, Ungan, "What are you doing?"
Ungan said, "I am carrying water."
Yakusan asked, "What about that fellow?"
Ungan replied, "He is here."
Yakusan then asked, "For whom are you working?"
Ungan replied, "I'm busy on behalf of that fellow."
Yakusan asked, "Why don't you let that fellow work with you?"
Ungan said, "Osho, don't make a fool of him!"
Yakusan said, "Don't say that! Has he ever carried water?"
Once, Yakusan said to Dogo -- Ungan's brother -- "I have a very special phrase, which I have never told anybody."
Dogo observed: "It is already following you."
On another occasion, Ungan asked Yakusan, "How do you express the phrase?"
Yakusan said, "It is not a question of expression."
Dogo commented, "Now, you have expressed it."


Question 1
Our beloved master, I have heard you say that Buddha said, "Truth is what works."
I understand that to mean that, when delivered by an enlightened master, truth is what works -- his truth is implicit in everything he says or does. Having no ego means that there is no motivation for anything other than the truth.
I heard an old sannyasin say, "I don't exaggerate -- I lie like my master." It seems to me there is a fatal flaw in his words.
Will you please speak about truth and trust?


(source:CD-ROM)


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