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because it is your nature that opens up. Any remark that you can allow to penetrate inside you will be able to do the miracle. It is not the question of whether the remark is very significant or not; sometimes a very insignificant remark or sometimes just a slap from the Master or sometimes when the disciple asks the Master and the Master remains silent without answering him... the silence! Or sometimes the disciple is sitting under the tree and a dry leaf falls from the tree... and the falling leaf. Now there is no remark, the tree is not aware of the disciple, the leaf is not falling for him, but just the falling leaf -- and something transpires.
All that is required is a state of silence, of meditative awareness. Then anything can trigger the process, anything trivial can trigger the process.
Enlightenment is bound to be sudden; it cannot be gradual because it is not an achievement. It is simply a discovery of something forgotten. It is a remembrance, a recognition.
This is called the special transmission. Nothing is transmitted and yet something has transpired. This is the miracle of the relationship between the Master and the disciple. This is the greatest miracle in existence; there is nothing compared to it, it is incomparable.
It can happen here -- it is going to happen here to many people. As you will become more and more imbued with me, as you will be able to put your logical mind aside more and more, any day, any moment -- one never knows, it is unpredictable... and something can transpire. And suddenly all is light, suddenly the sun has risen.
Try not to be special. Just be ordinary, and wait in silence for the special transmission. It happens. It has happened before, it can happen now. It is the easiest way to God, to Tao, to the ultimate truth.
Zen: The Special Transmission
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Come and Get It!
2 July 1980 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 8007020
ShortTitle: SPCIAL02
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
The first question
Question 1
OSHO,
WHAT IS UNDERSTANDING AND WHAT IS MISUNDERSTANDING?
Dharmaraj,
Mind
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