This This A Thousand Times This ~ 07

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 2 Jun 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 0h 57min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 43:58.
Live music after the discourse.
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shorttitle THIS07
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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
There was a monk in training under Dogo called Soshin. He was a sincere young monk worthy of his name, which meant "to revere and believe." He had become distressed, and felt it to be beyond endurance: since the time he had come to the monastery for training, his teacher, Dogo, had not given him, even once, any instructive sermon or appropriate guidance.
One day Soshin, who could not stand it any longer, went to his teacher Dogo and asked: "Ever since I came to this monastery, you have not given me your gracious teaching even once. What could be the reason for this?"
The master gave the least expected reply, for he said, "Why, ever since you came to my monastery, I have not, even for one moment, neglected to teach you."
"What kind of teaching have you given me, master?" Soshin asked.
"Well, well! If you bring me a cup of tea, don't I receive the cup? If you serve me meals, don't I eat them? If you greet me with your hands pressed, don't I return your bow?
How have I ever neglected to give you guidance?"
Soshin, listening to this, hung his head deep, and for a while could not utter a word. Suddenly the master's roaring cry, as if abusing him, fell on Soshin's whole being. Dogo said, "When you see, see it direct! If a thought moves, it is gone!"
At this, Soshin uttered an unintentional cry "Oh!" and prostrated himself before the teacher, in tears, whether of joy or sorrow he himself did not know.


Question 1
Beloved Osho, did you call the bamboos, "poor bamboos" last night? Aren't they the luckiest bamboos alive? -- listening to one who speaks their language and knowing that our silence deepens with their every movement?


(source:CD-ROM)


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