Zen The Solitary Bird ~ 01

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 27 Jun 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 3min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 45:50.
Live music after the discourse.
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video Available, duration 1h 2min. Quality: good.
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle CUCKOO01
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
A monk said to Tozan, "You always tell learners to take the way of the birds. What is this way of the birds?"
Tozan said, "You meet nobody on it."
The monk then asked, "How can we go on this way?"
Tozan answered, "By egolessness, attending to each step as it comes."
The monk said, "Isn't the birds' way the same as one's original nature?"
Tozan said, "O monk, why do you get everything upside-down?"
The monk asked, "What is this place where people get things upside-down?"
Tozan said, "If there were no topsy-turviness how could a servant become a lord?"
The monk asked, "What is our original nature?"
Tozan answered, "Not taking the way of the birds."
When a monk asked Kassan, "What is the way?" he answered, "The sun overflows our eyes; for ten thousand leagues not a cloud hangs in the sky."
"What is the real form of the universe?" asked the monk.
"The fishes at play in the clear-flowing water make their mistakes," replied Kassan.


Question 1
Beloved Osho, is it not true that, paradoxically, those who are at home in silence can use sound -- music or words -- most potently?
Question 2
I hear the gossip has spread in the garden -- the bamboos have told the birds -- that you dedicated one of these Zen discourse series to the bamboos.
Is that why the birds were singing so fervently last night?


(source:CD-ROM)


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