Isan No Footprints in the Blue Sky ~ 07

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	1 Dec 1988 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 29min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:09:16. Live music after the discourse.
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video	Available, duration 1h 25min. Quality: good.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1988 first edition : Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky (1989) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	ISAN07

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

On one occasion, two Zen monks came from a rival community and, arriving at Isan's monastery, commented: "There is not a man here who can understand Zen."

Later, when all the monks were out gathering firewood, Kyozan saw them both resting. He picked up a piece of firewood and said to the two: "Can you talk about it?"

Both were speechless, at which Kyozan commented: "Do not say that there is no one here who can understand Zen."

When Kyozan got back to the monastery, he said to Isan, "Today, I exposed two Zen monks."

"How?" Isan asked, and Kyozan told him of the exchange.

Isan commented: "I have now exposed you as well."

Question 1

Our Beloved Master, does the time that you are away from us have a significance of its own in your work with us?

Question 2

Our Beloved Master, the story of buddha mechanically brushing away the fly is puzzling. Was it still possible for him to do something without being conscious, sometimes mechanical? I thought once one was enlightened, one could not help but be conscious in all that one did, twenty-four hours a day.

(source:CD-ROM)

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