The Language of Existence ~ 02
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 30 Aug 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 28min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:11:40. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 37min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | EXIST02 |
- 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
- Hakuin said:
- The study of Zen is like drilling wood to get fire. The wisest course is to forge straight ahead without stopping. If you rest at the first sign of heat, and then again as soon as the first wisp of smoke arises, even though you drill for three asamkhyeye kalpas, you will never see a spark of fire.
- My native place is close to the seashore, barely a few hundred paces from the beach. Suppose a man of my village is concerned because he does not know the flavor of sea water, and wants to go and taste it for himself. If he turns back after having taken only a few steps, or even if he returns after having taken a hundred steps, in either case when will he ever know the ocean's bitter, salty taste?
- But, though a man comes from as far as the mountains of Koshu or Shinshu, Hida or Mino, if he goes straight ahead without stopping, within a few days he will reach the shore, and, the moment he dips the tip of one finger into the sea and licks it, he will instantly know the taste of the waters of the distant oceans and the nearby seas, of the Southern beaches and the Northern shores, in fact of all the sea water in the world.
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, Hakuin said, "The wisest course is to forge straight ahead without stopping." But if we knew where straight ahead was, would we need to walk it?
- Question 2
- Is not our uncertainty, our groping, because we have to discover for ourselves what is straight ahead and what is going off track?
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