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Part VII : Discourses: Zen
In February and March 1976 Osho talks on Zen, Zen hits, and
the allegorical Ten Zen Bulls
Zen is a simple life.
And that is my teaching also: Be simple and nobody. Don't condemn
anybody. Don't put yourself in a situation where you can feel
holier than thou—never. Just be ordinary. And when you are
ordinary, all anxiety disappears. source03
If you really think about anger, from where it comes, you will
reach to emptiness.
Next time, when you feel angry…or if you cannot, then come
to me, I will give you a whack. I go on giving, but my whacks
are more subtle than Dokuon's. I don't use a real staff—it
is not needed; you are so unreal, a real staff is not needed.
I need not physically give you a whack, but spiritually I go on
giving them. I go on creating situations in which I try to bring
you back to your reality…
A master is to help you to go to your inner emptiness, the inner
silence, the inner temple; and the master has to devise methods.
Only zen masters beat; sometimes they throw a person out of the
window, or they jump on him. Because you have become so false,
such drastic methods are needed….
The whole art of meditation is, how to leave the personality
easily, move to the center, and be not a person. Just to be and
not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art
of inner ecstasy. flowrs02
We enter on a rare pilgrimage. The Ten Bulls of Zen are something
unique in the history of human consciousness. Truth has been expressed
in many ways, and it has always been found that it remains unexpressed
whatsoever you do. Howsoever you express it, it eludes, it is
elusive. It simply escapes description. The words that you use
for it cannot contain it. And the moment you have expressed, immediately
you feel frustrated as if the essential has been left behind and
only the nonessential has been expressed. The Ten Bulls of Zen
have tried in a single effort to express the inexpressible. So
first, something about the history of these ten bulls….
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