Zen The Quantum Leap ~ 01

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 11 Jun 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 9min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 1:01:30.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 1h 14min. Quality: not so good, low sound level in the beginning, video-noise at the top (under revision).
online video
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle QUANT01
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
The scholar, Ryo of Seizan, once had a meeting with Baso, who asked him, "What sutra are you lecturing on?"
"The mind sutra," he replied.
Baso said, "By what do you lecture?"
Ryo answered, "With mind."
Baso said, "The mind is like an actor, the meaning like a jester, the six senses like an acquaintance; how can the mind lecture on a sutra?"
Ryo retorted, "If mind cannot lecture, can't no-mind?"
Baso replied, "Yes, no-mind can lecture all right."
Ryo dusted his sleeves and began to take his departure.
Baso called to him and said, "Professor!"
Ryo turned his head.
Baso said, "From birth to death, this is how it is."
Ryo had a great awakening and bowed in respect to Baso.
Baso said, "What on earth are you bowing for, nit-wit?"
Ryo's whole body was now running with sweat. Going back to his temple, Ryo said to the monks, "I thought it could be said that all my life, no one could lecture better than I on the sutras. Today, a question by Baso dissolved the ice of a lifetime."
Ryo gave up his lectures and retired far into the western mountains and was heard of no more.
... On another occasion Baso said to the assembled monks, "Believe that each and all of you have the mind which is the Buddha! Daruma came from India to the middle kingdom to enlighten you with the truth he conveyed, of the Mahayana one mind."
A monk spoke up and said, "Why do you teach 'the mind is the Buddha'?"
Baso said, "To stop the baby crying."
The monk said, "And when the baby stops crying?"
Baso said, "Mind is not the Buddha."
The monk said, "Beside this, is there something more?"
Baso replied, "I will tell you, it is not some thing."


Question 1
Beloved Osho, the other evening I heard you say that intuition and enlightenment are not different. Is that because both are of no-mind? And does that mean that when intuition is working within us, we are having a small taste of enlightenment?


(source:CD-ROM)


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