OSHO
ZEN
NO MIND: THE FLOWERS OF ETERNITY
Chapter 1: To create a few more rainbows
Question 1
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Question 1
Maneesha has asked:
WE HAVE HEARD YOU HAVE BEEN VERY SICK. WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IT?
No, Maneesha. Being sick is enough. To talk about it is being more sick. And remember, my body can be sick, I am never sick. I watch everything, whatever happens. I will watch my death as I watched my life, and that's my simple teaching to you.
Before Sardar Gurudayal Singh...
These glasses are for great Avirbhava.
(HE HOLDS OUT HIS GLASSES AND MOTIONS AVIRBHAVA TO THE PODIUM. TOTALLY SURPRISED, AND CHARACTERISTICALLY OVERCOME, HER FLUSTERED RESPONSE DELIGHTS THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY INTO LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE.)
Yes, great, put them on! Everybody wants to see.
Judy comes back from her honeymoon and is gossiping with her friend, Diane.
"Well?" Diane inquires. "How was your honeymoon night?"
"Oh, Diane!" Judy exclaims. "It was horrible. All night -- up and down, in and out, up and down, in and out. Never get a room next to the elevator!"
Edgar and Louisa Snodgrass are Christian missionaries in Africa. They have been taken prisoner by the local cannibal tribe and are standing in a huge cauldron filled with water. Both are frightened beyond belief. Suddenly, Edgar starts giggling.
"What on earth are you laughing about at a time like this?" Louisa asks with a shocked expression.
"Those bastards don't know it yet," Edgar snickers, "but I just pissed in their soup!"
A Smutz Beer official is naming the winner of the Smutz Beer slogan contest on national television.
"And the winner is Herbert Fine, for his winning slogan: `Smutz Beer -- like love in a canoe.'"
Fine walks up to the stage and receives the ten thousand dollar bill. The official shakes Fine's hand and says, "That's a wonderful slogan, Mr. Fine. Please, tell our national audience why you feel that Smutz Beer is like love in a canoe."
"Sure," says Fine. "It is like love in a canoe because it is fucking close to water!"
Now, Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
(Gibberish)
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Be silent. Close your eyes. Feel your body to be completely frozen.
Now look inwards with your total consciousness and with an urgency as if this is the last moment of your life.
The totality of consciousness and such urgency is bound to bring you to the very source of your being.
Suddenly you have disappeared from the circumference and you are sitting deep at the center like Gautam the Buddha.
Flowers are showering,
a new breeze,
a fresh fragrance,
an open sky full of stars,
a sense of eternity.
To know this is all there is to know.
To make it clear,
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Relax. Just be a witness of the body and the mind. You are not the body, you are not the mind, you are just a pure watcher, a witness. This witnessing is the very essence of existential religion.
This is not a mere teaching, this is Gautam Buddha's sharing, his own experience of the eternal, giving you freedom from the body and the mind. The Buddha Auditorium suddenly has become a lake of consciousness; personalities have disappeared, there is not even a single ripple in the lake.
Collect as much oceanic experience as possible. You have to bring the buddha back with you. You have to live the buddha in your everyday experience.
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Come back, but come back like buddhas, with the same grace, with the same joy. Just sit for a few minutes to recollect where you have been, who in fact you are.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Buddha.
Next: Chapter 2: An assembly of two buddhas
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Chapters:
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 1: To create a few more rainbows, ON A CERTAIN DAY, ONCE A MONK WAS ASKED BY KYOZAN, 'WHERE HAVE YOU COME FROM?' TO WHICH THE MONK REPLIED, 'FROM YUSHU.' KYOZAN THEN ASKED HIM, 'I'D LIKE TO KNOW SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT YUSHU; WHAT'S THE PRICE OF RICE THERE?' at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 1: To create a few more rainbows, Question 1, WE HAVE HEARD YOU HAVE BEEN VERY SICK. WOULD YOU LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IT? at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 2: An assembly of two buddhas, ON ONE OCCASION WHEN A MONK ASKED KYOZAN THE MEANING OF BODHIDHARMA COMING FROM THE WEST, KYOZAN DREW A CIRCLE IN THE AIR AND PUT THE CHARACTER FOR BUDDHA INSIDE IT. THIS LEFT THE MONK WITHOUT WORDS at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 2: An assembly of two buddhas, Question 1, GAUTAMA THE BUDDHA DIED BY POISONING. YOU HAVE SURVIVED IN SPITE OF BEING POISONED. IS THERE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO? IS THERE A PARTICULAR SIGNIFICANCE IN THE TIMING OF YOUR DECLARATION THAT GAUTAMA BUDDHA IS LIVING ON IN YOU? at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 3: A meeting of two rivers, ONCE KAKUSAN WENT TO SEE KYOZAN. RAISING HIS FOOT, KAKUSAN SAID, 'THE TWENTY-EIGHT INDIAN PATRIARCHS WERE LIKE THIS, AND THE SIX PATRIARCHS OF THE COUNTRY OF T'ANG WERE LIKE THIS, AND YOU ARE LIKE THIS, AND I AM LIKE THIS!' at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 3: A meeting of two rivers, Question 1, DID GAUTAMA'S CONSCIOUSNESS ENTER YOU AT YOUR CONCEPTION OR IS IT THAT OVER THE YEARS HIS CONSCIOUSNESS HAS GRADUALLY BECOME SUFFUSED WITH YOU? IS IT TRUE THAT KRISHNAMURTI WAS A CANDIDATE FOR THE MAITREYA, BUT MISSED? at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 4: In your eyes is the hope of the world, ONE DAY WHEN ISAN AND THE MONKS WERE ENGAGED IN PICKING TEA LEAVES, ISAN CALLED TO KYOZAN, 'ALL DAY I HAVE HEARD YOUR VOICE AND NOT SEEN YOU.' KYOZAN, INSTEAD OF SAYING ANYTHING, SHOOK A TEA PLANT at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 4: In your eyes is the hope of the world, Question 1, IS IT NOT A PARADOX THAT YOU -- WHO MUST BE THE MOST TRULY INDIVIDUALISTIC OF BEINGS -- HAVE PROVED ALSO TO BE THE PUREST MEDIUM FOR ANOTHER? at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 5: I am just myself, CHOSA WAS A DISCIPLE OF NANSEN AND A CONTEMPORARY OF TOKUSAN, RINZAI AND ISAN. ONE DAY CHOSA WENT FOR A WALK AND WHEN HE RETURNED TO THE GATE, THE HEAD MONK ASKED HIM, 'OSHO, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN STROLLING?' at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 5: I am just myself, Question 1, SINCE YOU BECAME A HOST FOR GAUTAMA THE BUDDHA, YOU SEEM QUITE DIFFERENT TO ME, AND MEDITATING IN YOUR PHYSICAL PRESENCE IS ALSO DIFFERENT. IT IS NOT JUST THE IMPACT OF SEEING YOU AGAIN AFTER AN ABSENCE, BECAUSE THE FEELING HAS NOT DIMINISHED WITH TIME; NOR IS IT JUST MY FANTASY, BECAUSE OTHERS FEEL THE SAME WAY at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 6: My change has taken me higher, ONCE A DISCIPLE OF MA TZU, CALLED IKAN, WAS ASKED BY A MONK, 'HAS THE DOG THE BUDDHA-NATURE OR NOT?' at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 6: My change has taken me higher, Question 1, APPARENTLY THE 'AKASHIC DAILY CHRONICLE' NEWSPAPER RAN AN INTERVIEW WITH GAUTAMA. AS A RESULT, KRISHNA AND CHRIST ARE PACKING THEIR BAGS FOR THEIR SECOND COMING -- DESTINATION, POONA at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 7: The world of the gurus has ended, ONCE, AFTER DAIJI HAD BECOME AN ENLIGHTENED MASTER, HE SAID TO HIS MONKS, 'I'M NOT GOING TO EXPLAIN ANY MORE DEBATES; YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST A DISEASE' at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 7: The world of the gurus has ended, Question 1, WITH OR WITHOUT ANYONE ELSE IN RESIDENCE IN YOU, WHATEVER NAME WE KNOW YOU BY, YOU ARE INFINITELY PRECIOUS TO US. AS KATUE ISHIDA SAID OF YOU, 'WE MUST PROTECT THIS MAN.' HOW CAN WE BEST DO THAT? at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 8: Truth has no history, A MONK CAME TO SEE MASTER DAIZUI, AND SAID TO HIM, 'MOUNT GOTAI AND MOUNT DAIZUI -- WHAT ARE THEY LIKE? HOW IS MOUNT DAIZUI?' at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 8: Truth has no history, Question 1, DURING THE PERIOD OF YOUR BEING UNWELL, MANY OF US DECIDED TO MEDITATE AT THE EVENING VIDEO at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 9: Be ready to be chopped, MAYOKU CAME TO SHOKEI CARRYING HIS BELL STAFF WITH HIM. HE CIRCUMNAVIGATED SHOKEI'S SEAT THREE TIMES, SHOOK HIS STAFF, RINGING THE BELLS, STUCK THE STAFF IN THE GROUND, AND THEN STOOD UP STRAIGHT at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 9: Be ready to be chopped, Question 1, WHAT IS IT TO BE 'GROWN UP?' at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 10: When I call you my friends, I mean it, A NON-BUDDHIST SCHOLAR, MEETING MASTER DAIZUI, GAVE HIM A BOWL. A MONK OBSERVING THIS ASKED DAIZUI, 'WHAT DID YOU USE BEFORE HE PRESENTED YOU WITH THE BOWL?' at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 10: When I call you my friends, I mean it, Question 1, YOU ADDRESS US AS 'MY BELOVED FRIENDS.' CAN WE REALLY BE YOUR FRIENDS OR DO YOU CALL US SUCH OUT OF YOUR GENEROSITY OF HEART? at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 11: Only creation shows your power, WHEN KOKO, A DISCIPLE OF JOSHU, WENT TO SEE MASTER HOGEN, HE WAS ASKED WHERE HE HAD BEEN RECENTLY at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 11: Only creation shows your power, Question 1, YOU REFERRED TO THE MAHABODHI SABHA BUDDHISTS AS BIGOTED AND PREJUDICED. THEY HAVE ALSO, IN ESSENCE, DICTATED TO GAUTAMA AND TO YOU HOW YOU BOTH SHOULD BEHAVE. ARE BIGOTRY, PREJUDICE AND DICTATORIAL ATTITUDES ALL PART OF THE SAME SYNDROME? at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 12: Nothing to choose, nothing to discard, WHEN HE FIRST MET SEKITO, HO KOJI ASKED, 'WHO IS HE THAT IS INDEPENDENT OF ALL THINGS?' BEFORE HE COULD FINISH HIS QUESTION, SEKITO COVERED KOJI'S MOUTH WITH HIS HAND at energyenhancement.org
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Osho - Talks on Zen: No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity, Chapter 12: Nothing to choose, nothing to discard, Question 1, YOU SPOKE THE OTHER NIGHT OF AMERICA -- OF ITS BEING BLOODTHIRSTY AND DESTRUCTIVE. WHAT IS THE APPEAL OF DESTRUCTION OVER CREATION? at energyenhancement.org
