Zen The Solitary Bird ~ 12
event type | discourse & meditation |
date & time | 8 Jul 1988 pm |
location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 10min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 49:55. Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 7min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | CUCKOO12 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
- The sutras
- Once a monk made a portrait of Joshu and gave it to him.
- Joshu said to the monk, "Tell me, does this look like me or not? If it looks like me, I will beat me to death; if it doesn't, I will burn you to death!"
- The monk had nothing to say.
- One of Kinzan's monks painted a portrait of him and presented it to him.
- Kinzan said to the monk, "Is it like me or not?"
- The monk made no answer.
- Kinzan, answering himself, said, "Let the assembly decide!"
- Fuke was the chief disciple of Banzan, and was the most eccentric of all the Zen monks.
- When Banzan was about to die, he asked his monks to bring him his portrait, but he was not satisfied with any of them.
- At that time, Fuke had one of them, and Banzan said, "Why don't you show me it then?"
- Fuke turned a somersault and went out.
- Banzan said, "This lunatic will pervert the true way from now on."
- Question 1
- Who can portray the master?
- Are not all paintings in fact self-portraits?
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