Isan No Footprints in the Blue Sky ~ 01
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 1 Nov 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 36min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:14:39. Live music after the discourse. |
| online audio | |
| video | Available, duration 2h 33min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ISAN01 |
- 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
- One night Isan was in attendance on Hyakujo, sitting till late in the quietness of the mountain temple.
- "Who are you?" Hyakujo asked.
- "Reiyu," replied Isan.
- "Rake in the fireplace," instructed Hyakujo.
- Isan did as he was told and said, "I find no embers left." Hyakujo took up the tongs and, raking deep down, brought up a tiny burning ember, which he showed to Isan, and said, "Just this, you see!"
- Isan was suddenly enlightened. He bowed deeply and related his point of realization to Hyakujo, who said, "You have reached a crossroads on the Buddha nature; you should observe time and causation. When the time comes, you will realize it, just like remembering something you have forgotten. It is not obtained from others. Therefore, when you are enlightened, your original nature manifests itself. Now you have attained it -- carefully cultivate it."
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, I have heard you say that the enlightened ones, like birds, leave no footprints behind them. Yet people like Isan touch our consciousness hundreds of years after they have died. Could you please comment?
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