The Original Man ~ 03
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 18 Aug 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 55min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:41:19. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 59min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ORIG03 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the sutra: Ma Deva Anando. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
- The sutra
- Shoitsu said to Chimoku:
- Since the Buddhas and patriarchs, there have been three general levels of dealing with people. On the uppermost level there are no further techniques, no meaning of principle; verbal understanding is impossible. If you take it up directly at this, then there is no difference from "the cypress in the garden," "three pounds of hemp," "swallow the water of the West river in one gulp."
- On the second level, it is just a matter of bringing out a question, going along to break through; this is like Rinzai questioning Obaku and getting hit sixty times.
- On the third level we enter the mud and water, setting down footnotes, blinding people's eyes, destroying the lineage of the Buddha.
- But a true, patch-robed one must search out and investigate the living word, not go for the dead word. Eminent Chimoku, you are pure and true. If you can attain realization at the living word, you can be teacher of Buddhas and patriarchs. Not begrudging my family way, I have shown you three levels of device.
- Question 1
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- Our Beloved Master, Shoitsu had three levels of device, but I suspect you have a lot more than that up your abundant sleeve. Do we have to wait until we too, are pure and true, before you will reveal your devices to us?
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