Zen The Solitary Bird ~ 14

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	10 Jul 1988 pm
location	Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 2h 13min. Quality: good, but a constant noise. Osho leading meditation from 1:58:50. Live music after the discourse.
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video	Available, duration 2h 13min. Quality: good, but Osho leaving is inferior.
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1988 first edition : Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest (1988.11) other editions, translations and links
online text	find the PDF of this discourse
shorttitle	CUCKOO14

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

Hofuku said, "There is a man now passing behind the Buddha hall, and he knows this is tom, this is dick, or this is harry. There is a man passing before the Buddha hall. Somehow or other he sees nothing and nobody. Tell me, where is the profit and loss of Buddhism?"

A monk said, "Because he distinguishes things badly, it means he can't see."

Hofuku said, "Kwatz!" Then he said, "If this is the Buddha hall, he can't see."

The monk said, "If it wasn't the Buddha hall, he could see all right!"

Hofuku said, "It is just because of the Buddha hall that he can see anything."

On another occasion, a monk said to Bokushu, "I beg you to expound to me the great meaning of Buddhism."

Bokushu said, "You bring it to me, and I'll expound it."

The monk said, "Please tell me!"

Bokushu said, "When we break the Eastern hedge, we must mend the Western fence."

A monk asked Joshu, "What is this eye of the one who never sleeps?"

Joshu said, "The physical eye of the ordinary man." He added, "Though he may be said not yet to have the spiritual eye, the physical eye may be considered to be the same thing."

The monk asked, "What is the eye of the one who sleeps?"

Joshu said, "The Buddha eye; the eye of the law is the eye of him who sleeps."

And once a monk asked Tendo, "What is the eye that lacks nothing in its practical application to life?"

Tendo answered, "It is just like blindness."

Question 1

Beloved Osho, is the meditator's view, the bird's-eye view?

(source:CD-ROM)

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