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Chapter 3 - Unhitch the Universe
MY UP-DOWN CAREER: BUDDHAS
NOR PATRIARCHS CAN CONVEY IT.
He is saying that causality is the basis of science, but your being is not within the area of causality. You are not caused by anything, you are here from eternity to eternity. And the experience of this is something even buddhas cannot express. He is saying, "I am a poor poet.
Don't expect me to express what I have experienced. Even great buddhas find themselves utterly helpless as far as expressing it is concerned."
Shutaku wrote:
FOR ALL THESE YEARS, MY CERTAIN ZEN:
NEITHER I NOR THE WORLD EXIST. THE SUTRAS NEAT WITHIN THE BOX, MY CANE HOOKED UPON THE WALL, I LIE AT PEACE IN MOONLIGHT,
OR, HEARING SOME WATER SPLASHING ON THE ROCK, SIT UP:
NONE CAN PURCHASE PLEASURE SUCH AS THIS:
SPANGLES ACROSS THE STEP-MOSS, A MILLION COINS!
To be in absolute simplicity, to be in such silence ... You are no more mortal
human beings. Every day I am reminding you about your immortality, about the fiction of death. It never happens, it has never happened.
You are beyond destruction. Question 1
Maneesha has asked:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
I IMAGINED THAT OUR TENDENCY TO PUT OURSELVES DOWN WAS A PRODUCT OF OUR CONDITIONING, AND SOMETHING PECULIAR TO MODERN
MAN. BUT EVEN IN RINZAI'S TIME IT APPEARS THAT WAS THE CHIEF OBSTACLE TO SELF-REALIZATION TOO.
CAN A SOCIETY OF UNENLIGHTENED PEOPLE EXIST ONLY IF EVERYBODY IS
MADE TO FEEL INADEQUATE?
Osho - The Miracle 43
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