Joshu The Lion's Roar ~ 05
event type | discourse & meditation |
date & time | 19 Oct 1988 pm |
location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 56min. Quality: good. Osho leads meditation from 1:39:05. Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 57min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | JOSHU05 |
- 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
- A monk put the question to Joshu: "I have heard that you said that when the universe is destroyed the Buddha nature will not be destroyed. What is this 'nature'?"
- Joshu responded by saying, "The four elements and the five components."
- The monk asked again, "These are the very things that will be destroyed; what is this 'nature'?"
- Joshu said, "It is the four elements and the five components."
- Once, a monk was saying farewell to Joshu, who asked him, "Where are you going?"
- The monk replied, "All over the place, to learn Buddhism."
- Holding up his mosquito-flapper, Joshu instructed the monk, "Do not stay where the Buddha is! Pass quickly through a place where there is no Buddha! Do not make a mistake and bring up Buddhism to anyone for three thousand leagues!"
- The monk said, "In that case I won't go!"
- To which Joshu responded, "Farewell! Farewell!"
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, the terror and the relief of having a master who promises to hit "just for the joy of it"! Is this what Zen is? -- when rationality, right and wrong fly out the window, the mind is on hold, and all one can offer is one's self?
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