Yoga The Alpha and Omega Vol 05 ~ 04
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 4 Jul 1975 am |
| location | Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 19min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Not available |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | YOGA0504 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the questions: n/a; questions are being read by Osho himself.
- Question 1
- You say one can take a jump for quick attainment of enlightenment. Is it possible? Enlightenment means going upward, isn't it? But a jump can only be taken if we want to go downward, like jumping from a multistoried mansion onto the ground. How can one jump from the ground to the top of the mansion? One can only go upward, ascending something. Please explain.
- Question 2
- Why do Zen monks have to have been living near their masters for ten, twenty, or even for forty years for the sudden enlightenment to happen?
- Question 3
- I am sure you will not say to a seed, "take a sudden jump and flower," but why do you like to say to a man, "take a sudden jump and be a buddha"?
- Question 4
- You said that you "speak Lao Tzu and you speak "about" Patanjali. Does this depend on you, or on us, or what?
- Question 5
- If we are all Buddhas why did we fall into ignorance and unawareness?
- Question 6
- Can one take the sudden jump with the help of drugs?
- Question 7
- Am I right to feel that you have travelled the path of gradual enlightenment? Did you dance when the enlightenment happened?
- Question 8
- You really know how to make me mad. Now, even enlightenment is not good enough anymore. No, it has to be sudden; otherwise we still miss something. If I ever meet God I will shoot him. How do you expect me to and my balance if first you go on emphasizing to forget about enlightenment, to live naturally, and if anything at all has to be done it is practicing patience, and then all of a sudden I have to take a giant seven-in-one step -- be courageous and jump? Is all this just to get us into a desperate state?
- Question 9
- I have experienced the center of nonbeing from which all being arises as well as the ecstasy of which you speak. If I ask...
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