Yakusan Straight to the Point ~ 01
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| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 17 Jan 1989 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 2h 31min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 2:18:17. Live music after a meditation. |
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| video | Available, duration 2h 34min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | YAKU01 |
- 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
- Koke received a horse from the emperor Doko as a reward for his teaching. He rode away on it, but then fell off and broke his leg. When he returned to the temple he had the head monk make some crutches. Supported by the crutches, Koke came across a monk, to whom he said, "Do you know me?"
- "Why shouldn't I know you?" replied the monk.
- Koke said, "Here's somebody who expounded the dharma, and can't walk as a result of it."
- On another occasion, a monk asked Koke, "What should we speak about before the many-children stupa?"
- Koke said, "If one tells a lie, ten thousand report it as truth."
- At another time, Hoju, a disciple of Rinzai, said to Tanku, a fellow disciple, "When a man comes to you who has not put away the second and third roots, how do you receive him?"
- Tanku responded, "You have, in bringing up this question, already made a mistake."
- Hoju replied, "You also have not avoided error."
- Tanku continued, "Be my friend!"
- Hoju added, his hand by his side, "You old robber!"
- Question 1
- Everywhere in the world, for some support or to negate something, people are asked to raise one of their hands. Why do you ask us always to raise both our hands?
- Question 2
- Our beloved master, it is generally accepted that evolution is for the better, that it is a process of improvement, of refining. But Friedrich Nietzsche maintains that species don't grow more perfect, because the weaker -- who are in the majority -- defeat the strong.
- What is your understanding?
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