Dancing Madly From Eternity to Eternity

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From:This. This. A Thousand Times This: The Very Essence of Zen

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"Maneesha, Zen is your very heart. It is not an achievement, you already have it. It is only a recognition.
"This small anecdote is tremendously important compared to great religious scriptures, which say so much..."
Dancing Madly From Eternity to Eternity
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"Maneesha, Zen is your very heart. It is not an achievement, you already have it. It is only a recognition.
"This small anecdote is tremendously important compared to great religious scriptures, which say so much..."

Osho continues:
"Not that he is asking his name, he knows it. Isan has been one of his long-standing disciples. He is not asking anything concerning his personality, he knows every layer of it. He is asking directly, 'Who is there in – within all these clothes, the body, the bones, the mind, the thoughts? Who is there at the very innermost core?'
'Who are you?' Hyakujo asked.
'Reiyu,' replied Isan.
'Rake in the fireplace,' said Hyakujo.
Isan did as he was told and said,
'I find no embers left.'
Hyakujo took up the tongs and, raking deep down, brought up a tiny burning ember, which he showed to Isan, and said, 'Just this, you see!'
"I want to say to you also: Just this! Do you see? – the silence, the joy, the chitchatting of the bamboos? Do you see the flame of your being?
Isan was suddenly enlightened. He made deep bows and presented his views to Hyakujo, who said: 'You have reached a crossroads on the journey. It is said in the sutra, 'If you want to see buddha nature, you should observe time and causation.'
When the time comes you will realize it, just like remembering something you have forgotten…'
"This is immensely significant – to understand that you are not lost, you have just forgotten who you are. And the most hilarious thing is that you are asking others, 'Who am I?' Whatever you know about yourself is not you. The knower within you is beyond the reach of your mind, you cannot think about it. You can simply be it.

"And the sutra coming from Gautam Buddha says: 'It is a remembering.' You must all have felt once in a while. In all the languages of the world the expression, 'it is just on the tip of my tongue' exists. A name…you can even see the face, you know that you know the name, it is just on the tip of your tongue, but it is not coming out. And the harder you try, the narrower becomes the space from which the forgotten can again become a recognition.

"A point comes…you drop it. One can go only so far, you cannot drive yourself absolutely mad. You just go out for a morning walk, or start digging in your garden and suddenly, out of nowhere, the name is remembered."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 51 mins
File Size 13 MB
Type Individual Talks