Watching the Clouds of Emotions

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From:The Great Zen Master Ta Hui

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"Ta Hui, the man who started searching, has disappeared in the search. Now the one who is speaking is no more the old Ta Hui; he is discontinuous. The old is gone and the new..."
Watching the Clouds of Emotions
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"Ta Hui, the man who started searching, has disappeared in the search. Now the one who is speaking is no more the old Ta Hui; he is discontinuous. The old is gone and the new..."

Osho continues:
"Every politician in the world is psychologically sick. His sickness is a deep inferiority complex, a deep impotence. Now, there are only two ways to get out of this state of impotence: the cheapest and the simplest is to become powerful over others. But that is an illusory experience – certainly cheap, but not real.

"Real power comes only with the experience of your own being.

"That's where politics and religion separate. Their inquiry is basically the same – the search for power – but politics chooses the cheapest, the most plastic way of attaining power, and religion goes in search of the authentic, the real, your own.

"If you are independent, absolutely rooted in your own being, this experience of power can be shared. If you are close to the man of power and you are not afraid of opening up, you will immediately see a great flash, a great flow entering into your being, as if a flame has jumped from one lamp to another. It has been called, in the tradition of Zen, the transmission of the lamp. It is transmission of power, and it is a very strange experience.

"One of the disciples of Gurdjieff – perhaps the one who was with him the longest – was Bennett. He had found Gurdjieff in a refugee camp in Constantinople after the Russian Revolution. Gurdjieff had escaped out of Russia. He knew that remaining in Russia would be absolutely dangerous for his life, and his disciples who were around him also persuaded him to escape in time. There was every danger, particularly from the communists, who don't believe in any spirituality, who don't believe that man has something eternal in him – and that was Gurdjieff's lifelong work.

"There was chaos all over the country. The czar and his government had failed, collapsed. The communists had not yet been able to establish order and peace. Everything was in chaos; the whole bureaucracy was disrupted – and that was the time when all the people who wanted to get out of Russia had the opportunity.

"Gurdjieff landed in Constantinople, in a refugee camp, where there were thousands of homeless Russians. Bennett discovered him in the refugee camp in Constantinople."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 96 mins
File Size 23.16 MB
Type Individual Talks