The Search ~ 01

event type	discourse
date & time	1 Mar 1976 am
location	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 35min. Quality: good.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1976 first edition : The Search (1977.03) other editions, translations and links
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shorttitle	SEARCH01

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synopsis

Reader of the sutras: Sw Ananda Teertha.

The sutras

1. The Search for the Bull

In the pasture of this world,

I endlessly push aside the tall grasses in search of the bull.

Following unnamed rivers,

Lost upon the interpenetrating paths of distant mountains,

My strength failing and my vitality exhausted, I cannot find the bull.

I only hear the locusts chirring through the forest at night.

Comment:

The bull has never been lost. What need is there to search? Only because of separation from my true nature, I fail to find him. In the confusion of the senses I lose even his tracks. Far from home, I see many crossroads, but which way is the right one, I know not. Greed and fear, good and bad, entangle me.

2. Discovering the Footprints

Along the river bank under the trees,

I discover footprints!

Even under the fragrant grass I see his prints.

Deep in remote mountains they are found.

These traces no more can be hidden than one's nose looking heavenward.

Comment:

Understanding the teaching, I see the footprints of the bull. Then I learn that, just as many utensils are made from one metal, so too are myriad entities made of the fabric of self. Unless I discriminate, how will I perceive the true from the untrue? Not yet having entered the gate, nevertheless I have discerned the path.

(source:CD-ROM)

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