Zen The Solitary Bird ~ 03

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 29 Jun 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 0h 58min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 38:25.
10 minutes of live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 0h 53min. Quality: good, but Osho arriving and leaving are inferior (under revision).
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle CUCKOO03
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
Once in an assembly of monks, Ummon held up his staff, and said, "We are told in the scriptures that an ordinary man thinks the staff is a real existence; that those of the Hinayana take it as nothing; that those believing in the Pratyekabuddha take it as an illusory existence; that bodhisattvas say its reality is emptiness. But I say unto you, take the staff as just a staff. Movement is movement; sitting is sitting. But don't wobble under any circumstances!"
Ummon picked up his staff, and, showing it to the assembled monks, said, "My staff has turned into a dragon and swallowed up the whole world. Where are the poor mountains and rivers and great earth now?"


Question 1
Beloved Osho, why do we go to such pains to avoid the obvious?


(source:CD-ROM)


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