Zen The Mystery and Poetry ~ 02
event type | discourse & meditation |
date & time | 9 Jan 1989 pm |
location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 54min. Quality: inferior (under revision). Osho leading meditation from 1:41:04. 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 | POETRY02 |
- 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 Koyo Seijo, "Daitsu sat in zazen for ten kalpas and could not attain buddhahood; he did not become a buddha. How can this be?"
- Seijo said, "Your question is quite self-explanatory."
- The monk asked, "He meditated so long; why could he not attain buddhahood?"
- Seijo said, "Because he did not become a buddha."
- At another time, a monk asked Roso, "What is meant by 'in front of your nose'?"
- Roso responded, "Slender bamboos cannot be used as musical instruments; a gourd cannot return to the trellis it grew on."
- Saigun once entered a temple and noticed a sparrow making droppings on the head of an image of Buddha. Saigun said to Nyoe, a disciple of Ma Tzu, "Has the sparrow the Buddha-nature or not?"
- Nyoe answered, "Yes!"
- Saigun said, "Then why does it make droppings on the head of Buddha?"
- Nyoe replied, "Does it make droppings on the head of a hawk?"
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, from the schoolroom, where laughter is thought to undermine authority, to the local five star hotel, where it is considered an embarrassment, a sense of humor is no joke.
- If, from birth, we were allowed to laugh without restraint, would we not successfully subvert our conditioning, and save our natural intelligence?
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