Communism and Zen Fire ~ 02
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event type | discourse & meditation |
date & time | 31 Jan 1989 pm |
location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 2h 56min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:40:11. Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 2h 57min. Quality: good, but video part 2 has a low sound level (under revision). |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | FIRE02 |
- 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
- The monk in charge of the monastery once said to Yakusan, "I have rung the bell; please, Osho, it is time for the regular discourse."
- Yakusan said, "Okay. You come and follow me, holding up my bowl."
- The monk didn't understand the master's meaning, and Ungan -- who was also present -- asked, "Master, when did you lose your arms and legs?"
- Yakusan said, "You are simply wearing the monk's habit."
- Ungan replied, "I am not other than this. What about you, master?"
- "I don't have such a family," commented Yakusan.
- Once Yakusan called a boy monk to him. Dogo asked, "Why do you call such people?"
- Yakusan replied, "Because of this."
- Dogo asked, "Why don't you throw it away?"
- "Because I have used it for a long time," replied Yakusan.
- Question 1
- What is missing in communism?
- Question 2
- Why do you not want to allow Christianity to enter the Soviet Union?
- Question 3
- Our Beloved Master, neither communism nor Zen have a God as a central hypothesis on which a belief system is based. Does this imply that Russia might have a greater affinity with Zen than the West has?
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