Turning In (discourses) ~ 02
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 13 Aug 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 13min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:56:59. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 23min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | TURNIN02 |
- 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
- Eno said:
- Good friends, in this teaching, from the outset, sitting in meditation does not concern the mind nor does it concern purity; we do not talk of steadfastness. If someone speaks of 'viewing the mind', then I would say that the mind is of itself delusion, and as delusions are just like fantasies, there is nothing to be seen. If someone speaks of 'viewing purity', then I would say that man's nature is of itself pure, but because of false thoughts, true reality is obscured.
- If you exclude delusions, then the original nature reveals its purity. If you activate your mind to view purity, without realizing that your own nature is originally pure, delusions of purity will be produced. Since this delusion has no place to exist, then you know that whatever you see is nothing but delusion.
- Purity has no form, but nonetheless some people try to postulate the form of purity and consider this to be Zen practice. People who hold this view obstruct their own original natures and end up by being bound by purity.
- One who practices steadfastness does not see the faults of people everywhere. This is the steadfastness of self-nature. The deluded man, however, even if he doesn't move his own body, will talk of the good and bad of others the moment he opens his mouth, and thus behave in opposition to the way. Therefore, both 'viewing the mind' and 'viewing purity' will cause an obstruction to the way.
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, I understood you to say recently that there was no sense given to us to take us inwards, and hence meditation was above the natural -- transcendental.
- What then is the urge, the energy that provokes a person to go above what is natural? And why does going in affect some people's lives, even totally change some people's lives, while it leaves others absolutely untouched?
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