The Miracle (discourses) ~ 07
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 8 Aug 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 25min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:06:32. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 24min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | MIRACL07 |
- 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
- Rinzai said:
- If you want to be comfortably independent, free from birth and death and free to go or stay, you should recognize the one who is here now listening to my expounding of the dharma. This one has neither form nor shape and neither roots nor branches; this one has no place of abode; and this one is lively and active and performs its function according to circumstances beyond all conceptions of location. If you search for him, he will flee away from you, and if you long for him, he will oppose you. So he is called the mysterious one.
- If you give rise to a thought of love in your mind, you will be drowned by water. If you give rise to a thought of anger in your mind, you will be burned by fire. If you give rise to a thought of doubt in your mind, you will be obstructed by earth. If you give rise to a thought of joy, you will be whirled away by wind.
- If you can discern all this you will not be affected by objective things which you can turn to your own advantage. Then you can walk on water as if on the ground, and walk on the ground as if on water. Why is this possible? -- because you already understand that the four elements are like a dream and a transformation.
- Therefore, followers of the way, the one who is now listening to my expounding of the dharma is certainly not your four elements, but one who can make use of your four elements. If you hold such a view, you will then be free to go or stay.
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, I have understood you to say lately that the Buddha, the "mysterious one" within us, is always there, constant, unaffected by whatever we do.
- I always had the feeling that the more often we are conscious, the more we nourish the inner buddha; but if nothing we can do negatively can diminish him, then my feeling must be just imagination. Is it?
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