The Language of Existence ~ 05
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 3 Sep 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 44min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:26:24. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 48min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | EXIST05 |
- 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
- Torei said:
- If you want to be free from this world of suffering, first you must contemplate impermanence.
- Those who are born must inevitably die. Even the young are not exempt; even the strong are in danger. Even a long life does not last more than eighty years or so. If you don't annihilate the nature of afflictions somehow, and arrive on the path of liberation, even if you ascend to the rank of sovereign of a nation, great minister, deity, spirit, or wizard, it is still evanescent as lightning and morning dew, lasting only for a while.
- When conditions meet, everything surely seems to exist; but when the conditions disintegrate -- emptiness. This body is gained through the relationship of father and mother, and comes from their conditions. Solidity becomes skin, flesh, ligament, and bone; fluidity becomes spittle, tears, pus, and blood; heat becomes warmth and flexibility; air becomes breath and movement.
- When these four conditions suddenly are exhausted, the body gets cold and the breath stops -- there is nothing called "me." At that time this body is really not our own; it is only a temporary inn. How can we be so greedily attached to this temporary inn that we ignore eternity?
- Contemplating these four transcendences -- impermanence, suffering, emptiness, selflessness -- seeking the way of enlightenment is called, "the teaching of four realities for disciples." This is the essential gateway to beginning entry into the way for all enlightened ones.
- Question 1
- Our beloved master, can it help to contemplate on a concept? If the concept is just one's intellectual understanding, or someone else's insight, what is the value? And even if it is out of one's own insight, what is the point? -- if you have known it, you have known it.
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