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June 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Archive code: 8806145
ShortTitle: QUANT04
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 78 mins
BELOVED OSHO,
RYUGE WAS ASKED BY A MONK, "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF BODHIDHARMA COMING FROM THE WEST?"
RYUGE SAID, "WAIT TILL THE STONE TURTLE SPEAKS WORDS OF EXPLANATION AND I WILL TELL YOU."
THE MONK SAID, "THE STONE TURTLE HAS SPOKEN!"
RYUGE SAID, "WHAT DID IT SAY TO YOU?"
THE MONK WAS SILENT.
ONE OF DAIBAI'S MONKS ASKED HIS MASTER THE SAME QUESTION, TO WHICH DAIBAI REPLIED, "HIS COMING HAS NO MEANING."
THE MONK BROUGHT THIS QUESTION UP TO ENKAN, WHO SAID, "TWO DEAD MEN IN ONE COFFIN."
GENSHA, HEARING OF THIS, SAID, "ENKAN IS A CLEVER CHAP."
THE SAME QUESTION -- THE MEANING OF BODHIDHARMA COMING FROM THE WEST -- WAS BROUGHT TO SEKITO, OR "STONEHEAD", AS HE WAS ALSO KNOWN.
"GO AND ASK THE OUTSIDE POST OF THE HALL!" HE EXCLAIMED.
THE MONK SAID, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN."
"NOR DO I," SAID SEKITO.
WHEN SUIYRO PUT THE QUESTION TO HIS MASTER, BASO, BASO KICKED HIM IN THE CHEST AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN. SUIYRO WAS ENLIGHTENED. HE STOOD UP AND, CLAPPING HIS HANDS AND LAUGHING ALOUD, SAID, "A MIRACLE! A MIRACLE! THE HUNDRED SAMADHIS AND THE COUNTLESS MYSTERIOUS TRUTHS ARE PROFOUNDLY KNOWN TO ME NOW IN THE TIP OF ONE HAIR."
HE MADE HIS BOWS AND DEPARTED.
Maneesha, Zen is a simple phenomenon -- as simple as the taste of tea. But if you want to explain it, it becomes the most difficult thing in the world.
These anecdotes indicate again and again the existential status of Zen, not philosophical, not theological. It is more poetry than religion, more music than philosophy; a language that is understood even by the bamboos, by the flowers, even by the cuckoos. It is a language of existence itself. This is the way existence opens its doors.
Mind is the enemy. The more knowledgeable the more dangerous, the more knowledgeable the more closed. When there is no-mind even for a single moment, you have come home: a thousand miles journey is finished in a single moment.
The questions asked
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