Communism and Zen Fire ~ 03
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 1 Feb 1989 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 3h 26min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 3:09:32. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 3h 26min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | FIRE03 |
- 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
- The monk, Sompu, was once washing a Buddha statue. Yakusan came and asked him, "Now you are washing this, but can you wash that?"
- Sompu replied, "Please get that and bring it to me."
- The master didn't say anything.
- On another occasion, when Yakusan was sitting down, a monk came up to him and said, "Osho, you are sitting silently. What are you thinking?"
- Yakusan replied, "I'm thinking the unthinkable."
- The monk said, "How do you think the unthinkable?"
- Yakusan replied, "Non-thinking."
- When Yakusan was about to die, he yelled out, "The hall is falling down! The hall is falling down!"
- The monks brought various things and began to prop it up. Yakusan threw up his hands and said, "No one of you understood what I meant!"
- Question 1
- Why does communism need a dictatorship of the proletariat? Why not democracy?
- Question 2
- Why has the state not disappeared after seventy years?
- Question 3
- Our Beloved Master, there was no place for any God in the work of the Russian mystic, George Gurdjieff, yet he did not attract a large number of disciples in Western Europe or in his home country. Was this more a reflection of his abilities as a communicator or were the Russian people simply not ready to receive him?
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