Communism and Zen Fire ~ 07
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 5 Feb 1989 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 22min. Quality: good, but some sentences at the end are missing (under revision). Osho leading meditation from 2:07:09. |
| online audio | |
| video | Available, duration 2h 28min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | FIRE07 |
- 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
- When Ungan himself became a master, he once said -- when addressing an assembly of monks -- "Here is a child from a respectable family: Whatever you ask, there is nothing he can't answer."
- One of his disciples, Tozan, stepped forward and asked, "How many books are there in his house?"
- Ungan replied, "He doesn't have any books, not even a single letter."
- Tozan then asked, "How could he be so well informed?"
- "He seldom sleeps day or night," was Ungan's response.
- "I want to ask something of the child," continued Tozan. "Is it possible?"
- "He could answer, but he would not," replied Ungan.
- On another occasion, Ungan asked a monk, "Where have you been?"
- The monk replied, "I have been talking about the dharma to a rock."
- Ungan asked, "Did the rock nod?"
- The monk had no answer and Ungan commented, "It nods before you talk."
- Question 1
- According to your vision, what exactly is communism?
- Question 2
- Apparently when Ronald Reagan or George Bush go to the church to kneel and pray to their God, at their side is an aide who carries the briefcase with the codes that allow the president to signal an immediate launch of their nuclear arsenal, thereby effectively terminating all life on earth. But still Stalin is the bad guy. Is there any limit to our hypocrisy?
- Question 3
- In the USA, awash with drugs, violence, mental illness, and general alienation, it seems that Marx's much-awaited crisis of capitalism has come. But it is a spiritual rather than an economic crisis. Would you please comment?
- Question 4
- Hearing you talk, I have the feeling that Christian fascism won't rest until it has destroyed every trace of communism. I feel Christians' vengeance against communism for powerfully challenging their word of God.
- Question 5
- Our Beloved Master, hearing you talk about communism being combined with Zen, Marx combined with Buddha, I had the flash that Rosa Luxemburg would be delighted to hear you.
- I have the feeling that this is what she was looking for and could not find or express in her time, but she must have had the longing in her already.
- She wrote the following while she was in prison in Breslau, Germany, in 1917.
- "here I am lying, alone, wrapped in these black folds of darkness, boredom, imprisonment, the winter -- and at the same time, my heart beats with an unbelievable, unknowable, unknown inner joy....
- In the darkness of life I'm smiling, as if I know some magic secret that gives the lie to all evil and sadness and changes it into bright light and happiness. I'm looking for a reason for this happiness and I don't find any, and I have to smile again. I think that the secret is nothing else than life in itself."
- Would you like to comment?
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