Turning In (discourses) ~ 05
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 24 Aug 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 55min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:43:24. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 4min. Quality: good, but meditation not good (under revision). |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | TURNIN05 |
- 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
- Daikaku said to his assembly of monks: "Sitting meditation is the method of great liberation; all the teachings flow forth from this; myriad practices are mastered this way. Supernormal powers, knowledge, wisdom and virtue, all arise from here. The path of life of humans and gods opens herein; all the Buddhas have entered and left by this door. Bodhisattvas practicing it have entered this door. Disciples and self-enlightened ones are still only halfway there, while outsiders, though they practice, do not enter the right path. Whatever esoteric or exoteric schools do not practice this, do not have anyone who realizes the way of buddhahood."
- A monk then asked Daikaku, "What does it mean that sitting meditation is the root source of all the teachings?"
- Daikaku answered, "Meditation is the inner no-mind of the enlightened ones; discipline is their outer character; doctrine is their speech; Buddha-remembrance is the invocation of the Buddha's name. All come from the enlightened no-mind of the Buddhas; therefore, it is considered fundamental."
- The monk asked again, "The method of meditation is formless and thoughtless; spiritual qualities are not obvious, and there is no proof of seeing reality -- so how can we believe in this?"
- Daikaku said, "Your own no-mind and the enlightened no-mind are one -- is that not spiritual quality? If you don't know your own no-mind, on whom can you call for witness and proof? Other than the identity of no-mind and Buddha, what proof do you seek?"
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, sitting in front of you and facing nothingness for a few minutes each evening is one thing, but quite another when it confronts one during the other twenty-three hours and fifty-five minutes of the day. It seems easier either not to even know such a space exists, or to go into it totally through sitting in meditation all day.
- The third way -- of going through the motions of daily life, while walking around feeling empty inside -- is really weird. Yet you seem to do it so beautifully. Can you give us some tips?
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