Zen The Quantum Leap ~ 10
event type | discourse & meditation |
date & time | 20 Jun 1988 pm |
location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 10min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 57:52. Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 12min. Quality: good, but Osho leaving is not so good. |
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see also |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | QUANT10 |
- 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
- One day, while Nan-sen was living in a little hut in the mountains, a strange monk visited him just as he was preparing to go to his work in the fields.
- Nan-sen welcomed him, saying, "Please make yourself at home. Cook anything you like for your lunch, then bring some of the leftover food to me along the road leading to my work place."
- Nan-sen worked hard until evening, and came home very hungry. The stranger had cooked and enjoyed a good meal by himself, then thrown away all provisions and broken all the utensils. Nan-sen found the monk sleeping peacefully in the empty hut, but when he stretched his own tired body beside the stranger's, the latter got up and went away.
- Years later, Nan-sen told the anecdote to his disciples, with the comment, "He was such a good monk -- I miss him even now."
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, is this a story about a master's compassion and equanimity in the face of his trust being abused? Or is it a beautiful illustration of benefitting from being with a master without being needy and dependent? Certainly, it is your voice I hear when I read Nan-sen's saying: "He was such a good monk -- I miss him even now."
- Question 2
- Beloved Osho, does a disciple need to need her master and to be conscious of needing him?
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