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1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Archive code: 8807145
ShortTitle: BOLT03
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 87 mins
BELOVED OSHO,
KYOGEN WAS ASKED BY A MONK, "WHAT IS THE WAY?"
HE ANSWERED, "A DRAGON SINGING IN A WITHERED TREE."
THE MONK SAID, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT."
KYOGEN SAID, "THE PUPILS OF THE EYES OF A SKULL."
AFTERWARDS, ANOTHER MONK ASKED SEKISO,
"WHAT IS THIS `DRAGON SINGING IN A WITHERED TREE'?"
SEKISO SAID, "IT IS BEING INVESTED WITH JOY."
THE MONK THEN ASKED, "WHAT IS THIS `PUPILS OF A SKULL'?"
SEKISO SAID, "IT IS THE GARMENT OF WISDOM."
AGAIN, A MONK ASKED SOZAN WHAT THE DRAGON SINGING IN THE WITHERED TREE MEANT, AND HE ANSWERED, "THE PULSE DOES NOT STOP."
TO THE QUESTION ABOUT WHAT THE PUPILS OF THE SKULL SIGNIFIED, HE ANSWERED, "NOT QUITE DRY."
THE MONK ASKED, "IS THERE ANYONE WHO CAN HEAR THE DRAGON SINGING?"
SOZAN REPLIED, "IN ALL THE WIDE WORLD, THERE IS NOT A SINGLE PERSON WHO DOES NOT HEAR IT."
THE MONK ASKED WHOSE WORDS THEY WERE.
SOZAN SAID, "I DON'T KNOW, BUT WHOEVER HEARS THEM WILL LOSE HIS LIFE."
SOZAN COMPOSED A VERSE:
THE DRAGON IN THE WITHERED TREE
REALLY SEES THE WAY.
THE EYES OF THE SKULL ABOVE ALL
BECOME CLEAR.
KNOWLEDGE REACHES ITS LIMIT,
AND THERE IS NOTHING TO SAY.
WHO CAN DISTINGUISH THE PURE
AMIDST THE IMPURE?
ONE DAY A MONK CAME ALONG, AND, NOT KNOWING HE WAS SPEAKING TO THE MASTER, ASKED BOKUSHU THE WAY TO THE MASTER'S ROOM.
BOKUSHU TOOK OFF HIS SANDAL AND HIT THE MONK ON THE HEAD WITH IT -- AND THE MONK RAN OFF.
THEN BOKUSHU CALLED TO HIM, "OSHO!" AND THE MONK TURNED HIS HEAD.
"THAT'S THE WAY TO IT," BOKUSHU SAID, POINTING WITH HIS FINGER.
Maneesha, before I enter into the mysteries of Zen, I have received a threat from that old goat, the Shankaracharya of Puri. Rather than answering my question about how burning a living woman can make clouds come over Hyderabad, he has asked the government to arrest me, because I have brought AIDS to India. He is such
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