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when the Master said, when the Master confirmed, illuminated, and said, "NOT KNOWING IS THE MOST INTIMATE"...when the Master patted him on the back: "NOT KNOWING IS THE MOST INTIMATE"....
HOGEN SUDDENLY ATTAINED GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT.
IMMEDIATELY, that very moment, he crossed the border. Immediately his last clinging disappeared. Now he cannot even say, "I don't know."
The stupid person says, "I know"; the intelligent person comes to know that "I don't know." But there is a transcendence of both when only silence prevails. Nothing can be said, nothing can be uttered. Hogen entered that silence, that great enlightenment, and suddenly, immediately, without any lapse of time.
Enlightenment is always sudden because it is not an achievement; it is already the case. It is only a remembering, it is only a reminding, it is only a recognition. You are already enlightened; you are just not aware of it. It is awareness of that which is already the case.
Meditate over this beautiful anecdote. Let this sutra resound in your being:
"NOT KNOWING IS THE MOST INTIMATE."
And one never knows: sudden enlightenment may happen to you as it happened to Hogen. It is going to happen to many people here, because what I am doing every day is destroying your knowledge, destroying and destroying all your clingings and strategies of the mind. Any day when your mind collapses, when you cannot hold it together any more, there is bound to be sudden enlightenment. It is not an attainment, hence it can happen in a single moment, instantly. Society has forced you to forget it; my work here is to help you remember it.
Ah, This!
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Neti Neti
4 January 1980 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 8001040
ShortTitle: AHTHIS02
Audio: Yes
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The first question
Question 1
OSHO,
PLEASE, IN THE QUESTION "WHO AM I?" WHAT DOES "I" MEAN? DOES IT MEAN THE ESSENCE OF LIFE?
Hermann Sander,
"WHO AM I?" IS NOT REALLY A QUESTION because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.
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