Ma Tzu: The Empty Mirror

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He walks on all fours like a cow and has the eyes of a tiger. He was born with two rings marked on the soles of his feet and twists the noses of his disciples. The unpredictable Ma Tzu brings fresh responses and devices to every situation - he is the empty mirror that simply reflects.
He walks on all fours like a cow and has the eyes of a tiger. He was born with two rings marked on the soles of his feet and twists the noses of his disciples. The unpredictable Ma Tzu brings fresh responses and devices to every situation - he is the empty mirror that simply reflects.

Extract from Chapter 1The Mirror

Ma Tzu is also known as Baso…. He is one of those unfortunate geniuses whom the world tries in every way to ignore, to forget that they even exist. Even the idea that they exist hurts the ego of the crowd. It has been doing harm to every genius, because the very existence of a genius reduces you to a retarded being. Every enlightened master is evidence that you are living in darkness, that you have to transform your darkness into life, into light.

It seems to be such a great task – it is not, but it appears to be a great task – to transform your blindness into clear perceptive eyes; to transform your darkness into beautiful morning light. It is a simple thing, the simplest in the world, but just because it is simple, it does not appeal to the mind. Mind is interested in doing great things. The desire behind every ambition of the mind is to be special. And you can be special only with special achievements.

The problem with Zen is that it wants you to be utterly simple, not special. It goes against the very desire of the mind, which is not a small phenomenon – it is a four-million-years-old desire, which everybody is carrying in different lives. Mind cannot understand why you should be simple when you could be special, why you should be humble when you could be powerful. And mind is heavy, it has the great weight of the past. The moment the mind sees anyone humble, simple, natural, a buddha, it immediately condemns him, because such a man goes against the whole makeup of the human mind.

And in a way the mind is right. To be a buddha you will have to drop the mind completely, you will have to become an empty mirror.

In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
center... emptiness... samadhi... statues... watching... need... meaning... hyakujo... nangaku... yakusan...
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Type Series of Talks
Publisher OSHO Media International
ISBN-13 978-8172613075
Number of Pages 200