Zen The Quantum Leap ~ 13
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| event type | discourse & meditation |
| date & time | 24 Jun 1988 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 15min. Quality: good. Osho leading meditation from 1:06:44. Live music after the discourse. |
| online audio | |
| video | Available, duration 1h 18min. Quality: inferior (under revision). |
| online video | |
| see also |
|
| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | QUANT13 |
- 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
- Hyakujo needed to select a monk to be the master of a new monastery that was to be established on the mountain of Ta-kuei-shan.
- He called the cook of his monastery and told him he had been chosen.
- But the chief monk overheard Hyakujo's conversation with the cook and said, "No one can say that the cook monk is better than the chief monk."
- So Hyakujo called all the monks together and told them the situation. He said that anyone who gave the correct answer to his question would be a candidate for the position in the new monastery.
- Hyakujo then pointed to a water pitcher standing on the floor and said, "Without telling me its name, tell me what it is."
- The chief monk said, "You cannot call it a wooden shoe."
- When no one else answered, Hyakujo turned to the cook. The cook stepped forward, tipped over the pitcher with his foot and then left the room.
- Hyakujo smiled and said, "The chief monk lost." The cook monk was made head of the monastery and lived there many years teaching more than one thousand monks in Zen.
- In another incident, Kantaishi -- a Confucian scholar -- asked Daiten, who had a monastery in the place of exile, "How old are you?"
- Daiten held out his rosary and said, "Do you understand?"
- Kantaishi said, "No, I cannot understand."
- Daiten replied, "In the daytime there are one hundred and eight beads and at night there are also one hundred and eight."
- Kantaishi was very much displeased because he could not understand this old monk, and he returned home.
- At home his wife asked, "What makes you so displeased?"
- The scholar then told his wife all that had happened.
- "Why not go back to the monastery and ask the old monk what he meant?" his wife suggested.
- Next day, early in the morning, Kantaishi went to the monastery, where he met the chief monk at the gate.
- "Why are you so early?" the chief monk asked.
- "I wish to see your master and question him," Kantaishi answered.
- "What is your business with him?" the chief monk asked. So the Confucian repeated his story.
- "Why don't you ask me?" the chief monk inquired.
- Kantaishi then asked, "What does 'one hundred and eight beads in the daytime and one hundred and eight beads at night' mean?"
- The chief monk clicked his teeth three times.
- At last Kantaishi met Daiten and once more asked his question, whereupon the master clicked his teeth three times.
- "I know," said the Confucian, "all Buddhism is alike. A few moments ago I met the chief monk at the gate and asked him the same question and he answered me in the same way."
- Daiten called the chief monk and said, "I understand you showed him Buddhism a few minutes ago. Is it true?"
- "Yes," answered the chief monk.
- Daiten struck the chief monk and immediately expelled him from the monastery.
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, it really seems that for the first time those of us who are with you are not setting up any kind of spiritual or organizational hierarchy: there is just you and us -- and even that division disappears in the silence here each evening.
| ◄ Previous event | Next event ► |
| ◄ Previous in series | Next in series ► |
