The Miracle (discourses) ~ 02

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	3 Aug 1988 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 2h 21min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:08:14. Live music after the discourse.
online audio	free download from OshoWorld purchase from Osho.com
video	Available, duration 2h 28min. Quality: good.
online video	Edited excerpt: The Courage to Open Your Heart (2min 59sec, a part of answer to the sutra) Edited excerpt: Have You Ever Seen Night Going? (3min 42sec, a part of answer to the sutra)
see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1988 first edition : The Miracle (discourses) (1989.09) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	MIRACL02

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

Edited excerpt: 2min 59sec, a part of answer to the sutra **

Edited excerpt: 3min 42sec, a part of answer to the sutra **

Dogen wrote:

Now, when we see the followers of an enlightened Zen master, we realize that they have many difficulties in hearing his true teachings. True aspirants of Buddhism amount to twenty or thirty -- nay, to one hundred or to one thousand. In this case, if a master tries to lead every one of them, he will find the days and nights too short. Further, they have no ear for his teachings, however hard he may try to lead them. But when they give ear to him, his sermon is already finished.

When an old Zen master laughs loudly, clapping his hands, beginners and later-day trainees in Buddhism seem to have difficulty even in having a chance to find themselves among the attendants. Some of them realize the innermost depths of the master, and others, not. Some hear the core of the master's enlightenment, and others, not.

Time flies faster than an arrow; life is more transient than a dewdrop. Some may have the master, but regret that they cannot hear his teachings. Some wish to listen to his teachings, but regret that they cannot see the master himself.

On another occasion, Dogen said:

My own master never easily permitted new monks to stay in his temple, usually saying, "Those, who, lacking in the bodhi-mind, behave themselves merely from force of habit must not stay here." Having turned them out, he said, "They are lacking in the bodhi-seeking mind. What are they going to do? Such fellows only disturb others. They are not worthy of being allowed to stay here."

Dogen continued: Seeing and personally hearing this fact, I said to myself: "Living as they are, in this country, what sin or crime in their previous existence, prevents them from living with my master? Under what a lucky star I was born that, coming from a far-distant foreign country, I am permitted to stay here to worship his venerable body and listen to his sermon! Foolish as I am, I have been able to form a good and fruitful connection with him."

Question 1

Our Beloved Master, you seem to be throwing us back to ourselves more and more lately, reminding us that you have disappeared, so there is no one to relate to.

By what may we gauge if we have a "good and fruitful" connection, when we are connecting with no one?

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