Yakusan Straight to the Point ~ 03

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 19 Jan 1989 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 2h 31min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 2:20:32.
Live music after a meditation.
online audio
video Available, duration 2h 35min. Quality: good.
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle YAKU03
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
In the days when Yakusan was still actively instructing his disciples, Rikoh -- the governor of Ho-shu and also a great Confucian -- went to visit Yakusan, whom he greatly admired. Yakusan was looking at a sutra when the attendant monk showed Rikoh into the master's room. Yakusan did not look up on the governor's arrival, but appeared absorbed in what he was reading. After a few moments, Rikoh, who had a hot temper, could not stand it anymore.
He grumbled, "It's better to hear the name than to see your face," and stood up to leave.
Immediately Yakusan said, "Why do you respect the ear and look down on the eye?"
Rikoh pressed his hands together and bowed down. He then asked, "Could you please tell me what Tao is?"
Yakusan immediately pointed up and then down with his hand and asked, "Do you understand?"
Rikoh said, "I don't understand."
Yakusan shouted, "Clouds are in the sky; water is in the well!"
Rikoh suddenly realized and felt great joy. And with his contentment, he bowed down to Yakusan and presented this poem to him:
"Achieved form, it looks like a form of the crane.
Under the thousands of pine trees, the way of the two poles.
I come and ask Tao: no wasteful argument.
Clouds are in the sky; water is in the well."


Question 1
Our beloved master, is the point of the questions to find as many different windows through which we might view -- and finally really comprehend -- what you are saying?
Or is there more you have not yet said, and the questions are our drawing you out on those areas which you have not yet disclosed?


(source:CD-ROM)


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