Zen The Mystery and Poetry ~ 02

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	9 Jan 1989 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 54min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:41:04. Live music after the discourse.
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video	Available, duration 1h 57min. Quality: good.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1989 first edition : Zen: The Mystery and the Poetry of the Beyond (1990.07) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	POETRY02

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

A monk asked Koyo Seijo, "Daitsu sat in zazen for ten kalpas and could not attain buddhahood; he did not become a buddha. How can this be?"

Seijo said, "Your question is quite self-explanatory."

The monk asked, "He meditated so long; why could he not attain buddhahood?"

Seijo said, "Because he did not become a buddha."

At another time, a monk asked Roso, "What is meant by 'in front of your nose'?"

Roso responded, "Slender bamboos cannot be used as musical instruments; a gourd cannot return to the trellis it grew on."

Saigun once entered a temple and noticed a sparrow making droppings on the head of an image of Buddha. Saigun said to Nyoe, a disciple of Ma Tzu, "Has the sparrow the Buddha-nature or not?"

Nyoe answered, "Yes!"

Saigun said, "Then why does it make droppings on the head of Buddha?"

Nyoe replied, "Does it make droppings on the head of a hawk?"

Question 1

Our Beloved Master, from the schoolroom, where laughter is thought to undermine authority, to the local five star hotel, where it is considered an embarrassment, a sense of humor is no joke.

If, from birth, we were allowed to laugh without restraint, would we not successfully subvert our conditioning, and save our natural intelligence?

(source:CD-ROM)