The Miracle (discourses) ~ 03

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 4 Aug 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 2h 18min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 2:01:33.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 2h 23min. Quality: good.
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle MIRACL03
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
On one occasion, Rinzai said:
Students of today fail to achieve their ends. What is their fault? It lies in not having faith in themselves. By lack of faith you fall into a state of uncertainty, in which you conform to all the fluctuations in your surroundings, subjecting yourself to their myriad revolutions, so that you are unable to achieve freedom. If you, however, succeed in stopping the mind, as it momentarily dashes hither and thither in its search, you then become indistinguishable from the patriarchs and Buddhas.
Do you want to know who are the patriarchs and Buddhas? All of you listening to my teaching here before me are such.
You followers of the way, there is no need for you to devote effort to the Buddhist teaching. Only do the ordinary things with no special effort: relieve your bowels, pass water, wear your clothes, eat your food, and, when tired, lie down. The simple fellow will laugh at you, but the wise will understand.
An ancient said: All those who strive outwardly are stupid. Suffice it to be one's own master wherever one may happen to be, and reality will prevail everywhere. Thus one will remain unshaken under all circumstances.
Rinzai said on another occasion: In your red heart, there is a true man of no fixed position, who comes in and goes out through your forehead. I urge those who have not experienced this, to try to see it.


Question 1
Our Beloved Master, I imagined that our tendency to put ourselves down was a product of our conditioning, and something peculiar to modern man. But even in Rinzai's time it appears that was the chief obstacle to self-realization too.
Can a society of unenlightened people exist only if everybody is made to feel inadequate?


(source:CD-ROM)


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