Turning In (discourses) ~ 07
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 27 Aug 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 30min. Quality: good, but a slight constant noise. Osho leading meditation from 1:12:13. Live music before and after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 31min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | TURNIN07 |
- 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
- Bankei said:
- What I tell people about is nothing special; it's the unborn, enlightened, no-mind innate in everyone. What is it about?
- While you are all here listening to my sermon, when a dog barks outside the temple, you know it is a dog, and when a crow caws, you know it is a crow. And also you can distinguish the colors black and white, and see the difference between men and women.
- Even though you are not thinking about hearing dogs and crows, or seeing black, white, men or women during the talk; nonetheless, right here you can see and hear them all, before conceptually discriminating them. Then even if a thousand or ten thousand people should tell someone that a dog's bark is a crow's caw, that person would hardly be deceived by them.
- Isn't this enlightened no-mind, with its inconceivable qualities of clear awareness, something to be grateful for?
- Because people don't know that everyone has such wonderful qualities and powers, they get confused by one thing and another. That confusion ultimately arises from self-importance.
- Self-importance means, for example, that you get angry and upset when you hear your neighbor criticize you, and only dislike and maltreat that person. Also, when you hear your neighbor praise you, you think well of that person, and act nicely; this too is because of self-importance.
- Considering the root source of this self-importance, when people are born they have no bad thoughts of hatred or liking for anyone. It is just that, as they grow up, they learn and cultivate various bad things and bad thoughts by seeing and hearing them, piling them up into mental habits. Always putting these mental habits to use, various kinds of confusion and error begin.
- Question 1
- Our Beloved Master, could it really be that one day enlightenment is seen as "nothing special"? Could children live simply through awareness, rather than conditioning, so that they pop off into nirvana almost as soon as they pop out into life?
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