Never Born, Never Died

By Oshō

"Always remember, whatsoever I say to you, you can take it in two ways. You can simply take it on my authority, 'Because Osho says so, it must be true' – then you will suffer, then you will not grow.

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March 23, 2022 Wolves in a Sheep's Skin (Communism & Zen Fire, Zen Wind - 06)
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
Dogo visited Nansen, who asked him, “What is your name?”
Dogo replied, “My name is Enchi.”
Nansen asked, “How do you express the place where wisdom doesn’t reach?”
Dogo replied, “I would never express it.”
Nansen said, “That’s right. If you express it, horns will grow and you will become a beast.”
A few days later, Dogo and Ungan were sitting outside the dormitory and doing some work. Nansen was taking a walk, and when he saw Dogo, he asked, “Enchi, the other day, you said you would never express the place where wisdom doesn’t reach. Now, how are you practicing it?”
Hearing this, Dogo slipped into the dormitory, waited there until Nansen walked away and then appeared again.
Ungan asked Dogo, “Why didn’t you answer when Osho asked you the question?”
Dogo replied, “What a clever chap you are!”
Then Ungan came up to Nansen and asked, “Osho, you have asked a question just now of my brother-disciple, Enchi. How should one answer to it?”
Nansen said, “He is quite good at the beasts’ way.”
Ungan asked, “What is the beasts’ way?”
Nansen said, “You must have heard that you should never express the place where wisdom doesn’t reach. If you express it, horns will grow. If you name it so-and-so, it will already be wrong. You should immediately go the beasts’ way.”
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4h 47min
March 22, 2022 Socialism is a judas (Communism & Zen Fire, Zen Wind - 05)
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
On one occasion, a monk asked master Dogo: “Even if there is no cloud for thousands of miles, it is not yet the original sky. What is the original sky?”
Dogo replied, “Today, it is good to dry wheat.”
On another occasion, Dogo was asked by another monk, “What is the deepest?”
Dogo came down from his seat, made obeisance in the manner of women and said, “You have come from far, and I have no answer for you.”
At another time, Sekiso Keisho asked Dogo, “After a hundred years, if someone asks about the absolute meaning of the universe, what shall I say to him?”
Dogo called the boy attendant, who came, and told him to fill up the water bottle. Dogo waited a while, and then said to Sekiso, “What was it you asked just now?”
Sekiso repeated the question. Dogo thereupon went back to his room, and at this, Sekiso became enlightened.
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3h 36min
March 21, 2022 I Am a Spiritual Terrorist (Communism & Zen Fire, Zen Wind - 04)
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
One day, Ungan was sweeping the garden with a bamboo broom. His brother Dogo came over to him and said, “Hey, you look terribly busy!”
Ungan said, “Although busy, there is something which is not busy.”
Dogo said, “That means there are two moons.”
Then Ungan put the broom on the ground and said, “What moon is this?”
Dogo silently left.
At another time, Ungan asked a monk, “Where are you from?”
The monk replied, “I came with incense.”
Ungan asked, “Did you see Buddha?”
The monk replied, “Yes, I did.”
“Where did you see him?” Ungan asked.
The monk replied, “I saw him in the lower world.”
Ungan said, “The old buddha! The old buddha!”
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2h 59min
March 20, 2022 This I Call Zen Fire, Zen Wind (Communism & Zen Fire, Zen Wind - 03)
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
The monk, Sompu, was once washing a buddha statue. Yakusan came and asked him, “Now you are washing this, but can you wash that?”
Sompu replied, “Please get that and bring it to me.”
The master didn’t say anything.
On another occasion, when Yakusan was sitting down, a monk came up to him and said, “Osho, you are sitting silently. What are you thinking?”
Yakusan replied, “I’m thinking the unthinkable.”
The monk said, “How do you think the unthinkable?”
Yakusan replied, “Non-thinking.”
When Yakusan was about to die, he yelled out, “The hall is falling down! The hall is falling down!”
The monks brought various things and began to prop it up. Yakusan threw up his hands and said, “No one of you understood what I meant!”
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4h 1min
March 19, 2022 Raise the Temple of Consciousness (Communism & Zen Fire, Zen Wind - 02)
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
The monk in charge of the monastery once said to Yakusan, “I have rung the bell; please, Osho, it is time for the regular discourse.”
Yakusan said, “Okay. You come and follow me, holding up my bowl.”
The monk didn’t understand the master’s meaning, and Ungan – who was also present – asked, “Master, when did you lose your arms and legs?”
Yakusan said, “You are simply wearing the monk’s habit.”
Ungan replied, “I am not other than this. What about you, master?”
“I don’t have such a family,” commented Yakusan.
Once Yakusan called a boy monk to him. Dogo asked, “Why do you call such people?”
Yakusan replied, “Because of this.”
Dogo asked, “Why don’t you throw it away?”
“Because I have used it for a long time,” replied Yakusan.
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3h 23min
March 18, 2022 Marx and Buddha Hand in Hand (Communism & Zen Fire, Zen Wind - 01)
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
Yakusan asked a monk, “Where do you come from?”
“From Nansen,” was the reply.
“How long were you there?” Yakusan continued.
“From last winter to summer,” replied the monk.
“Then you must have become a good ox,” commented Yakusan.
The monk said, “The thing is, I was there, but I didn’t even go to the dining hall.”
“But you cannot get by just through breathing the wind!” Yakusan commented.
“It was not that bad, Osho,” said the monk. “There is surely a man who will hold a spoon for me.”
On another occasion, Yakusan was returning to his temple with a bundle of firewood when a monk asked him, “Where have you been?”
Yakusan replied, “I’ve got firewood.”
The monk pointed to Yakusan’s sword and said, “It makes the sound ‘tap-tap.’ What in the world is it?”
At this the master unsheathed the sword and assumed a warrior’s stance.
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3h 8min
March 17, 2022 Behold My Hands and My Feet (Come Follow To You - 42)
Luke 24
36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them: “Peace be unto you.”
37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38 And he said unto them: “Why are ye troubled? And why do thoughts arise in your hearts?”
39 “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”
40 And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet.
41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them: “Have ye here any meat?”
42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycombe.
43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.
46 And said unto them: “Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day.”
47 “And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”
48 “And ye are witnesses of these things.”
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1h 57min
March 16, 2022 I Am the Sea You Are Seeking (Come Follow To You - 41)
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1h 52min
March 15, 2022 Eli, Eli, Lamasabachthani (Come Follow To You - 40)
Matthew 27
26 Then released he Barabbas unto them, and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: “Eli, Eli, lamasabachthani?” That is to say: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that said: “This man calleth for Elias.”
48 And straightway one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.
49 The rest said: “Let be. Let us see whether Elias will come to save him.”
50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
51 And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
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1h 47min
March 14, 2022 The Whole Sky Belongs to You (Come Follow To You - 39)
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1h 45min

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