This This A Thousand Times This ~ 04
event type | discourse & meditation |
date & time | 30 May 1988 pm |
location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
language | English |
audio | Available, duration 1h 17min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:00:44. Live music after the discourse. |
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video | Available, duration 1h 16min. Quality: good. |
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online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
shorttitle | THIS04 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
- The sutra
- A monk said to Tozan, "Cold and heat descend upon us. How can we avoid them?"
- Tozan said, "Why don't you go where there is no cold or heat?"
- The monk said, "Where is the place where there is no cold or heat?"
- Tozan said, "When cold, let it be so cold that it kills you; when hot, let it be so hot that it kills you."
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, I understand Tozan to be saying that nothing is to be avoided, on the contrary, to meet everything head-on. And that totality is transcendence.
- Compared to Zen, other, formal religions, such as Christianity and Hinduism, seem to be so childish in their understanding of life -- with their gods and all the psychological paraphernalia that goes with God-worship -- and so insensitive to the subtle and the poetic.
- In fact, it seems as if either Zen is a religion and the others are not; or Zen belongs to a category all of its own. Would you please comment?
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