The Miracle (discourses) ~ 05

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	6 Aug 1988 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 1h 55min. Quality: good, a sutra not so good. Osho leading meditation from 1:37:02. Live music after the discourse.
online audio	free download from OshoWorld purchase from Osho.com
video	Available, duration 1h 56min. Quality: good, but when shows sannyasins not so good.
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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	MIRACL05

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

Dogen wrote:

Successive patriarchs personally transmitted the dharma from master to disciple. Without the personal transmission, not a single patriarch, master or disciple, could be a buddha or a patriarch.

It is just as if we were making innumerable small rivers join a great one, or keeping the light from going out, making countless lights one after another: eventually, they become one. And there is no gap in the function of the transmission between master and disciple.

So successive patriarchs spent their daily life face-to-face with Sakyamuni Buddha and watched by his face. How many days they had passed, I don't know. We should think calmly and be glad of this. Their eye and face are the Buddha's because they made bows to the Buddha's face and transferred his eye into their own, and vice versa.

It is through the transmission that the eye and face had been incessantly transmitted till now.

There is no gap in the transmission between master and disciple, just as one vine coils round another; that is to say, we open our eyes and present them with themselves, they receive themselves. The same can also be said of our face, mind and body.

Unless a disciple sees his master, he cannot be said to be a disciple; unless a master sees his disciple, he cannot be a master.

Both of them have got the transmission and succeeded to the dharma by seeing each other. That is an appearance of the transmission of the patriarchs. Therefore, they could directly touch the Buddha's fine face.

At the time of the transmission, our face will change completely. The skin itself will be a great mirror of the Buddhas, which has no flaw inside or out. The great mirror gives the transmission to the great mirror itself. Those who have been correctly given eyes true enough to see Sakyamuni Buddha personally, are more intimate with him than he is with himself. Everyone, regardless of self and others, who sees the correct transmission or the real study of this new transmission of the Tathagata should preserve it carefully.

Question 1

Our Beloved Master, are you not the exception to what Dogen says -- in that you did not have a personal transmission from a master?

As you did not have a master, how were you tickled?

(source:CD-ROM)