This This A Thousand Times This ~ 10
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 5 Jun 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 7min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 50:40. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 8min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | THIS10 |
- 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
- Kyogen was a scholar of great learning, and for some time, this stood in the way of his enlightenment.
- One day, Isan asked Kyogen, "When you were with our teacher, Hyakujo, you were clever enough to give ten answers to a single question, and hundreds of answers to ten questions.
- Tell me this: What is your real self -- the self that existed before you came out of your mother's womb, before you knew East from West?"
- At this question, Kyogen was stupefied and did not know what to say. He racked his brains and offered all sorts of answers, but Isan brushed them aside.
- At last Kyogen said, "I beg you, please explain it to me."
- Isan replied, "What I say belongs to my own understanding. How can that benefit your mind's eye?"
- Kyogen went through all his books and the notes he had made on authorities of every school, but could find no words to use as an answer to Isan's question. Sighing to himself, he said, "You cannot fill an empty stomach with paintings of rice cakes." He then burned all his books and papers, saying, "I will give up the study of Buddhism. I will remain a rice-gruel monk for the rest of my life and avoid torturing my mind."
- Sadly he left Isan, and took on the self-appointed job of grave-keeper.
- One day, when he was sweeping the ground, a stone struck a bamboo.
- Kyogen stood speechless, forgetting himself for a while.
- Then, suddenly, bursting into loud laughter, he became enlightened.
- Returning to his hut, Kyogen performed the ceremony of purification, offered incense, paid homage to his teacher, Isan, and with the deepest sense of gratitude said, "Great master, thank you! Your kindness to me is greater even then that of my parents. If you had explained the profound cause to me when I begged you to give me an answer, I should never have reached where I stand today."
- Kyogen's verse on this occasion runs:
- One stroke and all is gone,
- No need of stratagem or cure;
- Each and every action
- Manifests the ancient way.
- My spirit is never downcast,
- I leave no tracks behind me,
- Enlightenment is beyond speech,
- Beyond gesture;
- Those who are emancipated
- Call it the unsurpassed.
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, is it true to say that timing is everything?
- Or that at least it is crucial in regard to what happens between master and disciple?
- Is that the real reason why you wear a watch?
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