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"Cardinal Chong from China."
"Ratzoff!" shouts Seamus.
"Chong!" shouts Sean.
Paddy has been sitting quietly, looking at his beer.
"Neither of you know what you are talking about," he says. "The next pope is going to be Rabbi Nussbaum from New York."
"Don't be silly," snaps Seamus, "he is not even a Catholic."
"Ah," says Paddy, "well I won't even argue with you if you are going to bring religion into it."
The Angel of Death finds Rufus Rothschild and delivers him to the pearly gates.
"Mr. Rothschild," says Saint Peter looking at his files, "have you done any good in the world?"
"Well," replies Rothschild, "one time I gave a dollar to a poor man."
"I see," says Saint Peter, writing something on his papers. "Anything else?"
"Yes," replies Rothschild thinking hard, "I once gave fifty cents to a blind man."
"Were there any other virtuous acts in your life?" asks Saint Peter.
"No," says Rothschild, "that is it."
"Okay," says Saint Peter turning to the angel. "Give this guy his dollar fifty back and tell him to go to hell!"
Now we can be...
Nivedano, give the gong...
(Drumbeat)
And you start rubbish.
Start!
(Gibberish)
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Be silent, utterly silent, no movement.
This...
This...
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Relax.
Nivedano...
(Drumbeat)
Come back.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Osho.
This, This, A Thousand Times This: The Very Essence of Zen
Chapter #5
Chapter title: Freedom is my god
31 May 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Archive code: 8805315
ShortTitle: THIS05
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 54 mins
BELOVED OSHO,
ONCE THERE WAS A ZEN MASTER NAMED SEKITO, MEANING STONEHEAD, SO CALLED BECAUSE HE CONSTRUCTED A HUT ON A BIG, FLAT STONE WHICH HE FOUND IN A MOUNTAIN, AND LIVED THERE. ONE DAY A YOUNG MONK IN TRAINING CAME TO SEE HIM.
SEKITO ASKED: "WHERE HAVE YOU COME FROM?"
THE MONK ANSWERED, "FROM KOSEI, MASTER."
SEKITO THEN
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