This This A Thousand Times This ~ 15

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 10 Jun 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 0min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 47:18.
Live music after the discourse.
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video Available, duration 1h 4min. Quality: good, but Osho leaving is not so good.
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle THIS15
notes
synopsis
Reader of the sutras: Ma Prem Maneesha. Questions are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads No-Mind Meditation.
The sutras
Tozan said to Ungan, "Master, if someone asks me a hundred years afterwards what I thought was your deepest understanding, what should I say?"
Ungan answered, "Tell him I said, 'it is simply this.'"
Tozan was silent for a time, and Ungan said, "Tozan, if you have grasped this, you must carry it out in detail!"
Tozan was still silent. Ungan struck him.
Some years later, when Tozan was holding a service in memory of Ungan's deepest understanding, a monk said to him, "The dead teacher said, 'it is simply this!'" The monk then added: "Is this the yes-saying spirit?"
"It is," replied Tozan.
The monk asked, "What does this mean?"
Tozan said, "At the time Ungan said that, my idea was almost entirely a mistaken one, though I understood what he meant all right."
"The dead teacher," said the monk, "did he know it, or not?"
Tozan said, "If he didn't, how could he say such a thing? And if he did, how could he avoid saying it?"
Other Zen masters expressed the essence of Zen like this:
Masso said, "Lichen-crusted frogs croak at moonlit mountaintops.
Awaken, mind's clear at last.
Refreshing pine winds
Of the book of songs
Can't match this."
Beirei said, "All patriarchs are above our understanding,
And they don't last forever.
Oh my disciples, examine, examine.
What? Why this. This only."
And Daibai said:
"I'm one with this, this only.
You, my disciples,
Uphold it firmly --
Now I can breathe my last."


Question 1
Beloved Osho, if someone asks me a hundred years afterwards, what I thought was your deepest understanding, what should I say?


(source:CD-ROM)


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