Joshu The Lion's Roar ~ 04

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 18 Oct 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 2h 7min. Quality: good.
Osho leads meditation from 1:48:58.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 2h 6min. Quality: good.
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle JOSHU04
notes
synopsis
Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
The sutras
On one occasion, Joshu said to his monks:
I have single-heartedly practiced zazen in the Southern province for thirty years. If you want to realize enlightenment, you should realize the essence of Buddhism, doing zazen.
In the course of three, five, twenty or thirty years, if you fail to grasp the way, you may cut off my head and make it into a ladle to draw urine with.
Joshu is also reported to have said:
Thousands upon thousands of people are only seekers after Buddha, but not a single one is a true man of Tao. Before the existence of the world the self-nature remains intact. Now that you have seen this old monk, you are no longer someone else, but a master of yourself. What's the use of seeking another in the exterior?
Once a monk asked Joshu: "What is your family's tradition?"
Joshu responded: "I have nothing inside, and I seek for nothing outside."


Question 1
Beloved Osho, it seems you have closed off all escape routes for us. Am I right in feeling that enlightenment is less and less an option, but, rather, the only exit?


(source:CD-ROM)


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