Turning In (discourses) ~ 03
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 14 Aug 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 47min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:28:12. 10 minutes of live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 44min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | TURNIN03 |
- 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
- Rinzai said:
- What is the use of catching a dream, an illusion, a flower in the sky? There is, followers of the way, only the one who is now present here and is listening to my expounding of the dharma....
- All troubles exist because you are mindful of them; if you are mindless of them, how can they hold you? If you do not take the trouble to differentiate and grasp appearances, you will realize Tao in an instant. If you follow others, and succeed in learning something by keeping yourselves busy with your studies, you will finally return to the realm of birth and death. It is far better to make yourselves unconcerned, and go to some monastery where you can sit cross-legged on the corner of a meditation bed.
- Make no mistake: there is no dharma externally, and there is nothing that can be found internally. Do not grasp this mountain monk's verbal words, for it is far better to put an end to all karmas and go on unconcerned. Do not allow thoughts that have arisen in your minds to go on uninterrupted, and do not allow thoughts that have not yet arisen to rise. This is much better than your ten years of journeying to call on learned teachers.
- According to this mountain monk's view, there are not so many things; suffice it to be ordinary and to go on unconcerned, wearing your robe and eating your rice....
- There are bald-headed and blind monks who, after satisfying their hunger, immediately sit in meditation to look into their mental activities and arrest their thoughts so that the latter cannot arise again. These people hate disturbance and seek quiet; this is the way of the heretics.
- The patriarch said, "Those who set their minds on looking into quietness, apply them on contemplating externals, and keep them under control to quiet and freeze them in order to enter samadhi, are all in the state of mental activity."
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, it seems that the mind gives us the illusion of control over life, while awareness makes us responsible for our lives.
- Is not the turning point recognizing the difference between being in control and being responsible?
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