Isan No Footprints in the Blue Sky ~ 07
event type | discourse & meditation |
date & time | 1 Dec 1988 pm |
location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 29min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:09:16. Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 25min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | ISAN07 |
- 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
- On one occasion, two Zen monks came from a rival community and, arriving at Isan's monastery, commented: "There is not a man here who can understand Zen."
- Later, when all the monks were out gathering firewood, Kyozan saw them both resting. He picked up a piece of firewood and said to the two: "Can you talk about it?"
- Both were speechless, at which Kyozan commented: "Do not say that there is no one here who can understand Zen."
- When Kyozan got back to the monastery, he said to Isan, "Today, I exposed two Zen monks."
- "How?" Isan asked, and Kyozan told him of the exchange.
- Isan commented: "I have now exposed you as well."
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, does the time that you are away from us have a significance of its own in your work with us?
- Question 2
- Our Beloved Master, the story of buddha mechanically brushing away the fly is puzzling. Was it still possible for him to do something without being conscious, sometimes mechanical? I thought once one was enlightened, one could not help but be conscious in all that one did, twenty-four hours a day.
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