Zen The Solitary Bird ~ 13

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event type discourse & meditation
date & time 9 Jul 1988 pm
location Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language English
audio Available, duration 1h 16min. Quality: good.
Osho leading meditation from 1:05:49.
Live music after the discourse.
online audio
video Available, duration 1h 19min. Quality: good.
online video
see also
online text find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle CUCKOO13
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
Ummon asked the head monk, "What sutra are you lecturing on?"
"The Nirvana sutra," replied the monk.
"The Nirvana sutra has the four nirvana virtues, hasn't it?" asked Ummon.
"It has," the head monk agreed.
Picking up a cup, Ummon asked, "how many virtues has this?"
"None at all," said the monk.
"But ancient people said it had, didn't they?" said Ummon. "What do you think of what they said?"
Ummon struck the cup and asked, "You understand?"
"No," said the monk.
"Then," said Ummon, "you had better go on with your lectures on the sutra."
On another occasion, a monk said to Ummon, "I ask you, master, to deliver a learner from darkness and illusion quickly!"
Ummon said, "What is the price of rice in Joshu?"
A philosophical monk asked Baso, "What teaching does the Zen sect propagate?"
Baso returned the question, and said, "How about you?"
The monk answered, "I am lecturing on as many as twenty different sutras and sastras."
Baso exclaimed, "You are a lion's whelp indeed!"
The monk said, "You are very kind."
Baso breathed out strongly.
"That's the real thing!" cried the monk.
"What do you mean, 'real thing', may I ask?" said Baso.
"It's the lion emerging from its den!" said the monk.
Baso was silent.
"That also is the real thing!" exclaimed the monk.
"How so?" asked Baso.
"It's the lion entering its den!" said the monk.
"How about when the lion is neither coming out nor entering?" asked Baso.
The monk was silent. He began to take his leave, and was going out of the door when Baso called him, "Oh, monk!" The monk turned round and Baso said, "How about it?" The monk made no response, and Baso exclaimed, "Oh, man of little sense!"


Question 1
Beloved Osho, it seems that there is nothing as uncommon as the so-called "common sense." Will the ordinary always be so rare?


(source:CD-ROM)


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