Zen The Solitary Bird ~ 05

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 1 Jul 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 31min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 1:15:54.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 1h 28min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise.
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle CUCKOO05
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
Dokin's disciple, Dorin, became a monk at the age of nine, took the vows at twenty-one, and studied the Kegon sutra. Later in life he entered the dense pine forest of mount Shimbo, and did zazen up a tree. For this reason he was called Choka zenji, meaning "bird-nest zenji," and Jakuso zenji, meaning "magpie nest," by his contemporaries because the birds and magpies built their nests beside him.
When the prefect of the district, called Hakurakuten, came to visit Dorin, he remarked, "You are in a very dangerous place!"
Dorin said, "You are in a more dangerous one!"
Hakurakuten asked, "What's dangerous about being in charge of this province?"
Dorin replied, "How can you say that you are not in danger when your passions are burning like fire and you can't stop worrying about this and that?"
Hakurakuten then asked, "What is the essence of Buddhism?"
Dorin answered in the words of Shakyamuni:
Not to do any evil,
To do all good,
To purify oneself --
This is the teaching
Of all the Buddhas.
Hakurakuten said, "Any child of three knows this."
Dorin said, "That's so -- any child of three knows it, but even a man of eighty can't do it."
In an incident between a monk and Seppo, the monk asked Seppo, "I have shaved my head, put on black clothes, received the vows -- why am I not to be considered a buddha?"
Seppo said, "There is nothing better than an absence of goodness."


Question 1
Beloved Osho, is not the way of the birds beyond morality?


(source:CD-ROM)


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