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Drop all 'isms'
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Mind of a Sage
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Judging a saint
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The Fake Monk
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Rinzai's Answer
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Mystic Rengetsu
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Zen
Master Sekito
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Zen Sage & Thief
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Zen Master in Jail
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Buddha’s message
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The Game of Chess
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Innocence is Divine
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Master's Compassion
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Knowledge is Trouble
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Respond with awareness
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Tetsugen
3 set of
sutras
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You are already a Buddha
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Sound of one Hand Clapping
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Master waits 4 right Moment
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Drop all 'isms'
Osho :
Meditate on this small parable, a real story.
Ma Tsu heard of Ta Mei’s stay on the mountain, and sent a monk to ask him
this question....Ma Tsu is a great Zen master, and Ta Mei is one of his
disciples – he had thousands of disciples. The master sent some-body to ask
the disciple some question – because he is staying on a mountain, alone,
meditating, just sitting silently there. Now, the master must be feeling
that he is getting settled or something. So he sends a person. He cannot go
– he is very old, it will be difficult for him to climb the mountain – but
he wants to see whether this Ta Mei can still be unsettled or not. He must
be thinking to unsettle this Ta Mei, so...
Ma Tsu heard of Ta Mei’s stay on the mountain and sent a monk to ask him
this question: ’What did you obtain when you called on the great master Ma
Tsu and what prompted you to stay here?’
Ta Mei replied, ’The great master told me that mind was Buddha and that is
why I came to stay here.’
The monk said, ’The great master’s Buddha Dharma is different now.’
Ta Mei asked, ’What is it now?’
The monk replied, ’He says it is neither mind nor Buddha.’
Ta Mei laughed and said, ’That old man is causing confusion in the minds of
others and all this will have no end. Let him say that it is neither mind
nor Buddha. As far as I am concerned, mind is Buddha.’
When the monk returned and reported the above dialogue to Ma Tsu, the latter
was very happy and
said, ’The plum is now ripe.’ ’Ta Mei’ in Chinese means ’big plum’. ’The
plum is ripe now, I cannot unsettle him.’ Now even the master cannot
unsettle the disciple. The disciple has arrived; now he knows all the tricks
of the old man.
If you get unsettled, this simply means you have not yet under-stood me. And
I will go on unsettling you, till you understand. One day you will
understand what I am doing here – destroying belief-systems, one by one. And
not giving any belief-system to you instead as a supplement. You are not
much worried about destroying a belief-system – if you come as a Christian
and I destroy your Christianity, you are not much worried. You would like to
become a Rajneeshite – then it is okay.
But when I start destroying that too, then you say, ’Now this is too much.
Somehow I managed to come out of my Christianity and I was getting settled
in this Rajneeshianity – and this man is now driving me out of that too. So
where am I going to land?’ I don’t want you to settle anywhere.
The whole is
your home – why choose small homes? Why create small gardens? The whole
wilderness is yours, this wide world is yours, this whole belongs
to you. Don’t become ever an ’ist’, don’t believe in any ’ism’. When you
drop all ’isms,’ truth comes to you –
never before it. That price has to be paid
Source: " Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 2 " - Osho
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