Zen The Quantum Leap ~ 09
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 19 Jun 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 8min. Quality: good, but a constant noise. The last sentence almost not audible (under revision). Osho leading meditation from 55:37. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 10min. Quality: good, but Osho arriving and leaving are not good. The last words "Can we now celebrate the evening?" are not audible (on audio - barely) (under revision). |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | QUANT09 |
- 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
- An Indian disciple of Eno, Kutta Sanzo, on passing through a village found a monk doing zazen in a small hut he had built.
- Sanzo asked, "What's the idea of sitting here all by yourself?"
- The monk answered, "I'm meditating."
- Sanzo said, "What is this 'he' who is meditating? What are you meditating on?"
- The monk said, "I don't know what you're getting at."
- Sanzo said, "Why don't you look at yourself, and quieten yourself?"
- The monk still looked blank.
- Sanzo then asked him, "What school are you of?"
- "Jinshu's," said the monk.
- Sanzo said, "Even the lowest heretics in the India I come from don't fall as low as that! Just to sit emptily and aimlessly -- what can it profit you?"
- One day, Yakusan was doing zazen. Sekito asked him, "What are you doing?"
- "Not a thing," replied Yakusan.
- "Aren't you sitting blankly?" said Sekito.
- "If I were sitting blankly, I would be doing something," retorted Yakusan.
- Sekito said, "Tell me, what is that which you are not doing?"
- Yakusan replied, "A thousand sages could not answer that question."
- The attendant, O, together with Rinzai, entered the hall. O asked, "Do these monks read the sutras?"
- "Not they!" replied Rinzai.
- "Then they're learning Zen?" asked attendant O.
- "No," replied Rinzai.
- "Then what on earth are they all up to?" asked O.
- "They're busy becoming Buddhas," said Rinzai, "becoming patriarchs."
- O said, "Gold dust is valuable but in the eye it is injurious."
- Rinzai said, "I thought you were just a mediocre person!"
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, does the mind only continue to dominate us because of our need to control? It seems to me that all our loveliest moments in life are those experiences when we feel out of control, taken over, obliterated. Yet we continually turn down the invitation to be in that space twenty-four hours a day.
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