This This A Thousand Times This ~ 04

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 30 May 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 17min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 1:00:44.
Live music after the discourse.
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video Available, duration 1h 16min. Quality: good.
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle THIS04
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synopsis
Reader of the sutra: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
The sutra
A monk said to Tozan, "Cold and heat descend upon us. How can we avoid them?"
Tozan said, "Why don't you go where there is no cold or heat?"
The monk said, "Where is the place where there is no cold or heat?"
Tozan said, "When cold, let it be so cold that it kills you; when hot, let it be so hot that it kills you."


Question 1
Beloved Osho, I understand Tozan to be saying that nothing is to be avoided, on the contrary, to meet everything head-on. And that totality is transcendence.
Compared to Zen, other, formal religions, such as Christianity and Hinduism, seem to be so childish in their understanding of life -- with their gods and all the psychological paraphernalia that goes with God-worship -- and so insensitive to the subtle and the poetic.
In fact, it seems as if either Zen is a religion and the others are not; or Zen belongs to a category all of its own. Would you please comment?


(source:CD-ROM)


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