Yakusan Straight to the Point ~ 03
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. |
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video | Available, duration 2h 35min. Quality: good. |
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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?
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