The Great Zen Master Ta Hui

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌PROLOGUE From the Blue Cliff Record of Ta Hui's teacher, Yuan Wu: The teacher would not offer a word of explanation, but made Ta Hui express his own view. In every case Ta Hui completely comprehended the subtle meaning. The older master exclaimed, "You must be someone who's come again!" Yuan Wu told Ta Hhui, "It wasn't easy for you to get to this stage -- too bad that having died, you are unable to come back to life....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌that is not so important; he is deceiving himself. And this is the case not only with Ta Hui; this is the case with ninety-nine percent of so-called religious scriptures. I am talking about all this nonsense to make you aware that whenever you come across the same kind of nonsense again somewhere else -- beware! Don't get caught in it. Enlightened people have been respected so greatly that intellectuals have had a great jealousy, and they have tried in every way to imitate the enlightened people's statements....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌whether what he is doing is right ... is it really right? Or, who knows? -- it may not be right. The moralist acts out of confusion. He depends on others who themselves may have been confused. The last words of Gautam Buddha on the earth were, "Be a light unto yourself. Don't be bothered about what others say, don't be bothered about traditions, orthodoxies, religions, moralities....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌awakening stops dreaming. But that is not much of a difference ... dreams are just dreams, they are not even as real as soap bubbles. To allow such people as Ta Hui and his sutras to be holy scripture is a great misunderstanding on the part of people who have followed the path of Zen. Perhaps they have committed the same fallacy as other religions go on committing: if they see something wrong in their scriptures they ignore it, or they try to patch it up, or they try to interpret it in a way that somehow fixes it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌If meditation is deep, if awareness is clear, nothing can disturb it. Then everything is ephemeral. Amrapali became one of the enlightened women among Buddha's disciples. So the whole question is: wherever you are, become more centered, become more alert, live more consciously. There is nowhere else to go. Everything that has to happen, has to happen within you, and it is in your hands....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌settle it down he agrees that both Buddha and Jesus are equal, and immediately the restlessness disappears. Ta Hui is an intellectual. Calling Buddha a barbarian, sooner or later he must have realized that that was going too far -- and it was too ugly. I hope that he will come back. Even if he can come back at the last moment of his death, everything else can be forgiven....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌Truth is simple, obvious, uncomplicated. All that it needs is just a silent awareness, and a great understanding descends on you, an understanding that does not become knowledge, an understanding that deepens your innocence and that deepens the mystery of life. Okay, Maneesha? Yes, Osho. 15 Suchness 22 July 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium BELOVED OSHO, SEE THE TATHAGATA EVERYWHERE WHERE DO WE COME FROM AT BIRTH?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌The teacher thought to himself: "If my name can do such miracles I must be a fool that I have never tried doing miracles myself. I could have been the greatest master in the whole of Tibet." So he said, "That's very good. You have got the right secret." And he told all the disciples, "This is what trust is." And he tried to walk on water himself....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌potential, in your own courage, in your own ultimate possibility of a quantum leap from mind to no-mind. This can be the criterion to judge: if somebody wants you to have faith in him, he is a fraud. And if somebody helps you to have faith in yourself, he is a friend. A true master is a friend. He is not superior, he is not holier than thou; he is just a friend....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌In this non-duality, in this meaningless splendor of existence, in this state of unconcern -- not waiting for anything, not desiring for anything -- you become so innocent, so open and so vulnerable, that the greatest experience simply arises in you. You have prepared the ground. Enlightenment is not a goal; it is your intrinsic potentiality. When you are relaxed, the lotus flower of enlightenment opens its petals....