Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest

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Osho is one who has searched within himself and come to know who he is. He turns these tales of the monks’ exploits into something unique, something that goes straight to the very essence of life.
Osho is one who has searched within himself and come to know who he is. He turns these tales of the monks’ exploits into something unique, something that goes straight to the very essence of life.

Excerpt from: Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest, Chapter 6

“Entering the world of Zen is not like any other entering; it is entering yourself. There is no door, and there is no possibility of doing anything. You simply have to relax so totally that you sink deep within yourself.

“Remember, relaxation is not an activity. It is absence of all activity. And only in the absence of all activity, when you are relaxed to your very being, does the door open to all the mysteries of the world, all the miracles of existence.

“It fills your being with a great dance, although you cannot utter a single word. You hear music that you have never heard, although there is no way to translate it to anyone else. You see flowers blossoming; their colors are absolutely unknown to you. Your whole being becomes a fragrant luminosity. There is nothing to say about it, you can just be it. And the rays of your silence will start creating and weaving a field around you.

“That’s why a master in Zen is not simply a teacher. In all the religions, there are only teachers. They teach you about subjects which you don’t know, and they ask you to believe because there is no way to bring those experiences into objective reality. Neither has the teacher known them – he has believed them; he transfers his belief to somebody else. Zen is not a believer’s world. It is not for the faithful ones; it is for those daring souls who can drop all belief, unbelief, doubt, reason, mind, and simply enter into their pure existence without boundaries.

“It brings a tremendous transformation.” Osho

In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
duality... temples... beginning... silence... dust... celebrate... changes... ummon... nanyo... hogen...
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Type Series of Talks
Publisher OSHO Media International
ISBN-13 978-0-88050-264-1
File Size 1,799 KB
Format Adobe ePub