My Way The Way of White Clouds ~ 10

event type	discourse
date & time	19 May 1974 pm
location	Lao Tzu balcony, Poona
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 0min. Quality: good.
online audio	free download from OshoWorld purchase from Osho.com
video	Not available
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1974 first edition : The Way of the White Cloud (1975.01) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	CLOUDS10

notes

synopsis

Reader of the questions: Sw Ananda Teertha.

Question 1

Beloved Osho, as you know, the old Zen custom was that a monk should stay with his master for ten years before he went out on his own teaching.

There is a Zen story about a monk who had completed his ten years in the monastery. One rainy day the monk visited his master, Nan-in. After Nan-in had greeted him, he said to the monk, "No doubt you have left your shoes in the vestibule. On which side of your umbrella did you leave your shoes?"

For a moment the monk hesitated, and through that hesitation realized that he was not in every-minute Zen.

You have told us that life has a pulsation -- in and out, yin and yang. Do we have to keep trying for every-minute awareness, or can we too pulsate with life, and at times let go our trying?

(source:CD-ROM)

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