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we celebrate?
Yes! ... So many buddhas awakened.
Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest
Chapter #4
Chapter title: Such a moon
30 June 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Archive code: 8806305
ShortTitle: CUCKOO04
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 46 mins
BELOVED OSHO,
ONE DAY KYOZAN WAS LOOKING AT THE MOON TOGETHER WITH SEKISHITSU AND ASKED HIM,
"WHERE DOES THE ROUNDNESS OF THE MOON GO WHEN IT BECOMES SHARP, CRESCENT?"
SEKISHITSU SAID, "WHEN IT IS SHARP, THE ROUNDNESS IS STILL THERE."
Maneesha, existence can be approached only in two ways: the way of philosophy and the way of poetry. Poetry ultimately ends in mysticism. Philosophy simply goes on and on, without coming to any conclusion.
Zen is the purest poetry.
It states the existential in a poetic form.
This small dialogue will tell you the poetics of your being. All the so-called religions are non-poetic -- very prose, very logical, very rational; their argument is to the mind. Poetry is the argument to the heart. Those who try to understand Zen as just another philosophy will miss it, will miss the very life of the Zen approach.
This small dialogue contains great insights, experiences, and realizations.
ONE DAY, KYOZAN WAS LOOKING AT THE MOON TOGETHER WITH SEKISHITSU AND ASKED HIM,
"WHERE DOES THE ROUNDNESS OF THE MOON GO WHEN IT BECOMES SHARP, CRESCENT?"
SEKISHITSU SAID, "WHEN IT IS SHARP, THE ROUNDNESS IS STILL THERE."
When it is round it is still sharp.
Nothing goes anywhere. Sometimes it is manifest, sometimes it is unmanifest, but it is always here -- just like the moon. On the full-moon night you see its roundness, and then slowly slowly that roundness is no more round. Something starts disappearing from your vision which is not disappearing in the moon itself.
A day comes that the whole moon disappears. And on the first day of the moon it is just a small arc, it shows only for a few minutes and then is gone. But the moon as such is always there. Sometimes only a part of it is reflected by the sun -- you see it.
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