Zen The Diamond Thunderbolt ~ 01
event type | discourse & meditation |
date & time | 12 Jul 1988 pm |
location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 43min. Quality: good, but a constant noise (under revision). Osho leading meditation from 1:29:48. Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 45min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | BOLT01 |
- 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 asked Bokushu, "What is the inner meaning of the teachings of Buddhism?"
- Bokushu said, "I won't answer."
- "Why not?" asked the monk.
- "Because," said Bokushu, "you think and think and then come and ask me."
- The monk further asked, "What is the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from the West?"
- Bokushu said, "Are we not teacher and learner? Why don't you come nearer?"
- The monk went nearer, and then Bokushu said, "When I call a man one from East of Setsu, one from West of Setsu is included. What's the meaning of that?"
- The monk then asked, "What is the essence of the meaning of Sokei?" -- (which was where Eno lived).
- Bokushu said, "When you meet a swordsman in the street, give him a sword. If he is not a poet, don't show him your poem."
- Once, Ummon exclaimed, "Buddhism is just terrific! The tongue is so short." Then he added, "So long." He then said, "When we have finished cutting with a great axe, we rub our hands together."
- A monk asked Nan-yin, "What is the great meaning of Buddhism?"
- Nan-yin replied, "The origin of a myriad diseases."
- The monk said, "Please cure me!"
- Nan-yin said, "The world-doctor folds his arms."
- A monk asked Yakusan, "Did the essence of Buddhism exist before Bodhidharma came?"
- "It did," said Yakusan.
- "Then why did he come, if it already existed?" asked the monk.
- "He came," said Yakusan, "just because it was here already."
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, why have you called Zen, "the Diamond thunderbolt"?
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