Zen The Solitary Bird ~ 02

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 28 Jun 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 7min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 50:21.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 1h 4min. Quality: inferior, a slight constant audio-noise (under revision).
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle CUCKOO02
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 once asked Ummon, "When not a thought arises, can there be anything wrong?"
Ummon replied, "Mount Sumeru!"
Another monk asked Ummon, "When all mental activity is at an end, how is it?"
Ummon said, "Bring the Buddha hall here, and we'll weigh it together!"
The monk said, "Aren't you getting away from the point?"
Ummon exclaimed, "Kwatz!" and then said, "You plunderer of vacuity!"
On another occasion, Ummon was asked, "How about when the word is uttered that expresses all things?"
Ummon said, "Tearing down, breaking up."


Question 1
Is there a word in the end?
I have understood you to say that in the beginning was not the word, but silence. Is not silence the beginning, the end, and the continuum between beginning and end?


(source:CD-ROM)


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