Zen The Quantum Leap ~ 12
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 23 Jun 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 0h 59min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 48:17. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 2min. Quality: inferior, a slight constant audio-noise (under revision). |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | QUANT12 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
- The sutras
- One day Ungan was ill and Dogo asked him a question: "When you are separated from your bag-of-bones, where can I meet you again?"
- Ungan replied, "Where there is no birth, no dying."
- Dogo said, "Don't say that! Say, 'where there is not any no-birth and no-dying, and we don't desire to meet each other again.'"
- When Hofuku was about to die he said to his monks, "For the last ten days my vitality has decreased. It is nothing; simply the time has come."
- A monk said, "The time has come for you to die -- is that all right? To continue living -- is that all right?"
- Hofuku answered, "It is the way."
- The monk asked, "How can I stop being flustered?"
- Hofuku said, "It never rains but it pours." With this, he sat in the zazen style and passed away.
- Sozan once said to Shie Doja, "Aren't you 'paper clothes the pilgrim'?"
- Shie Doja answered, "I am not worthy of being so."
- Sozan asked, "What is the thing beneath paper clothes?"
- Shie Doja said, "When just a leather garment is put on the body, all things are of their suchness."
- Sozan said, "What is the activity beneath paper clothes?"
- Shie Doja came near him, did as he was asked, and died standing up.
- Sozan said, "You have expounded the going, but how about the coming?"
- Shie Doja suddenly opened his eyes and asked, "How about when a spiritual nature does not borrow a placenta?"
- Sozan said, "This is not yet wonderful."
- Shie Doja asked, "What is wonderful then?"
- Sozan said, "Not-borrowing borrowing."
- Shie Doja thereupon said, "Be happy, be well!" and died, sitting.
- Sozan made a verse:
- The enlightened mind is a perfect and formless body.
- Do not believe, unreasonably,
- That it is far off or near!
- Thoughts of difference becloud the original form.
- A mind at variance with itself cannot be in harmony with the way.
- When emotion distinguishes phenomena, we fall into materiality.
- When intellect judges the manifold, we lose the reality.
- If you understand perfectly the meaning of these words,
- You are without doubt beyond danger like those of ancient times.
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