The Zen Manifesto ~ 05
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 4 Apr 1989 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 54min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:28:11. 10 minutes of live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 52min. Quality: good, but a constant audio-noise. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | ZENMAN05 |
- 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
- Once, Hotetsu -- a disciple of Ma Tzu -- and Tanka Tennen, were on a Zen tour visiting various Zen masters to ask questions. One day, Hotetsu saw fish in a pond and motioned to them with his hand.
- Tanka said, "Tennen."
- The following day, Hotetsu asked Tanka, "What is the meaning of what you said yesterday?"
- Tanka threw his body to the ground and lay there, face down.
- On his last day, Tanka said to his disciples, "Prepare a bath for me -- I am now going."
- Then he put on his straw hat, held a stick in his hand, put on his sandals and took a step forward. But before his foot touched the ground, he had died.
- Question 1
- I heard you say that we sometimes carry other people's wounds.
- What does this mean?
- Is another person's wound simply their thought pattern that we adopt? If we can so easily accept someone else's wound then why is it so difficult to accept our own buddhahood?
- Question 2
- What is the relationship between Zorba and Zen?
- Question 3
- I understand from listening to you that although Mahavira and Buddha were enlightened, they still retained something of their former Hindu conditioning which colored their expression of truth.
- In the therapies here, through your discourses, are you cleansing our minds from all conditioning so that we emerge as Buddhas who are absolutely free of conditionings?
- Question 4
- Beloved Osho, if I understand him rightly, Hubert Benoit seems to think that one does not need a master to learn how to let go. He writes, "I have need of a master to learn some movements that I wish to make with my limbs, but I have no need to learn how to decontract my muscles. I have need of a professor of philosophy, or of poetry, in order to learn how to think in the truest or most beautiful way; I have no need of such a person if I wish to learn not to think."
- Would you please comment?
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