The Miracle (discourses) ~ 01
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 2 Aug 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 43min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:24:09. 10 minutes of live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 41min. Quality: good, but shots of the public not good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | MIRACL01 |
- 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
- An old master said:
- Turn your heart round and enter the origin. Do not search for what has sprung out of it! When you have gained the origin, what has sprung out of it will come to you of itself.
- If you want to know the origin, then penetrate your own original heart. This heart is the source of all beings in the world and outside the world. When the heart stirs, various things arise. But when the heart itself becomes completely empty, the various things also become empty. If your heart is driven round neither by good nor bad, then all things are just as they are.
- Master Otsu, commenting on this emptying of the heart, said:
- The heart becomes empty, the situation quiet, and the body just as it is. When someone succeeds in reaching this point, the mirror of his heart shines clearly and his nature opens wide and clear. He leaves error and does not attach himself to truth; he dwells neither in error nor awakening. He is neither worldly nor saintly. All worldly desires fall away, and at the same time, the meaning of saintliness is emptied without residue.
- Such detachment from everything is what master Rinzai called "the complete taking away of both, of man and situation." Here is experienced absolute not-ness, since self and object allow themselves to come to nothing.
- Genuine Zen experience consists exclusively in this "taking away of man and object." This complete not-ness is the original place from which all thinking and knowing spring. But even if one is permitted to speak of a "place" at all, such terminology is only provisional.
- Even if one wanted to characterize it as unborn-ness, or as nirvana, or as truth, one could never hit it. It lies beyond all terminology and expression; thinking cannot reach that far.
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, you seem to embody the miracle of Zen -- how full emptiness can be!
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