Nansen The Point of Departure ~ 09

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	13 Oct 1988 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 20min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 58:28. Live music after the discourse.
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video	Available, duration 1h 22min. Quality: good.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1988 first edition : Nansen: The Point of Departure (1989) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	NANSEN09

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

Nansen once went into the garden and, seeing a monk there, threw a piece of broken tile at him and hit him. When the monk turned his head, Nansen lifted up one leg. The monk made no response. Nansen returned to the temple and the monk followed him and asked to be taught, saying "The master just threw a piece of tile at me and hit me. Did he not do this as a means of arousing me?"

Nansen said, "How about raising the leg?"

The monk was silent.

On another occasion, a monk came and stood before Nansen with folded hands. Nansen said, "A great layman!"

The monk clasped his hands.

Nansen said, "a great monk!"

Question 1

Beloved Osho, the poems or haikus that you talk about each evening sound so contemporary -- as though they were written about you and your disciples. Yet they have come to us from centuries earlier.

Is that an attribute of the truth, that it resonates with all people everywhere, in any age, who are seeking it?

(source:CD-ROM)