The Language of Existence ~ 06
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 4 Sep 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 44min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:30:11. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 51min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | EXIST06 |
- 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
- A monk asked Bankei, "The ancestral teachers since ancient times were greatly enlightened through difficult and painful practices. I have heard that you, too, accomplished the great teaching through various difficult practices. But for people like me, who don't cultivate practice, and are not enlightened, just realizing that my very state is the unborn, enlightened no-mind does not really settle anything."
- Bankei replied:
- "It is like the case of travelers who cross the peaks of high mountains where there is no water, and become thirsty. Someone seeks out water in a distant valley, breaking his back searching here and there. Finally, he finds water and brings it back to give to the others to drink.
- Even though they have not struggled so, those who drink are refreshed, just the same as the one who went through the trouble before. As for those who are doubtful and will not drink, there is no way for their thirst to be quenched.
- Because I didn't meet someone with enlightened eyes, I mistakenly wore myself out. I finally discovered the Buddha in my own no-mind, and am telling everyone about the Buddha of their own no-mind, without them having to do anything difficult -- just like drinking water and having their thirst quenched.
- Using the enlightened no-mind inherent in everyone, just as it is, having found peace and bliss, without the difficulties of confusion -- is this not a sacred true teaching?"
- At another time someone asked Bankei, "Is the complete illumination of the eye of reality accomplished with time and season, or is it realized even in one day?"
- Bankei replied, "It is not a matter of time and season; it is accomplished only when the eye of the way is clear, without any gap. It is accomplished by the practice of single-minded devotion to nurturing it."
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, I have met someone with enlightened eyes who does not just bring us water to drink, but showers us with it. And yet, and yet....
- Are we so neurotic, so complex, so far removed from innocence, that we can only receive that for which we have suffered?
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