Zen The Solitary Bird ~ 10

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 6 Jul 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 0h 59min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 32:39.
18 minutes of live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 0h 45min. Quality: good, but a slight constant audio-noise, Osho arriving is inferior (under revision).
online video
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online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle CUCKOO10
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
Suibi asked Tanka, "Who was the teacher of all the Buddhas?"
Tanka said to Suibi, "You'd better not take yourself so seriously! Use the floor cloth and broom more."
Suibi took three steps to the rear.
"A blunder!" cried Tanka.
Suibi then stepped forward three paces.
"Another blunder!" said Tanka.
Suibi raised one leg and turned round on the other.
Tanka said, "You've got it; you defied the other teachers of all the Buddhas!"
A monk said to Ummon, "What is your age, may I ask?"
Ummon replied, "Seven times nine -- sixty-eight."
The monk said, "What do you mean, 'seven times nine -- sixty-eight'?"
Ummon said, "I took off five years for your sake."
Myosho was a disciple of Razan. At his first meeting with Razan, he jumped to his feet as soon as he had made his bows, and Razan asked him where he had come from. By way of answer, Myosho asked, "What is it that is happening just at this moment?"
Razan saluted him graciously, and said, "Have some tea!"
Myosho hesitated, and Razan said, "It's a warm autumn day; why don't you go out somewhere?"
Myosho sighed, and thought that he had started off full of ambition, and it had all come to this, to nothing.
The next day he tried again, but Razan said, "The feathers are not fully grown and the wings are not strong enough yet; go away!"
Afterwards, when he was enlightened, Myosho did not stay in one spot, but went round the country converting all kinds of people.
Forty years later, when he was about to die, Myosho ascended the rostrum and admonished and instructed the monks. That evening he stretched out his legs and said to the monk-attendant, "Long ago, Shaka Nyorai stretched out both legs, and a hundred treasures of glorious light were emitted. Tell me, aren't I emitting some?"
The attendant replied, "In ancient times, the crane grove; today, your honor!"
Myosho rumpled his eyebrows and said, "Isn't some fox making a fool of me?" He then recited a gatha, sat in the proper way and quietly and slowly passed away.


Question 1
For those of us who continually forget that we are Buddhas, is it possible to be spontaneous, or are we only ever impetuous?


(source:CD-ROM)


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