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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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Zen Master
Rinzai
Osho :
One
day
the
Zen
monk
Rinzai
is
speaking
in
a
temple.
He
has
gone
into
a
sermon,
but
someone
is
disturbing
him
there.
So
Rinzai
stops
and
asks,
"What
is
the
matter?"
The
man
stands
up
and
says,
"What
is
soul?"
Rinzai
takes
his
staff
and
asks
the
people
to
give
him
way.
The
man
begins
to
tremble.
He
never
expected
that
such
will
be
the
answer.
Rinzai
comes
to
him,
takes
hold
of
his
neck
with
both
hands
and
presses
it.
The
man's
eyes
bulge
out.
He
goes
on
pressing
and
asks,
"Who
are
you?
Close
your
eyes!"
The
man
closes
his
eyes.
Rinzai
goes
on
asking,
"Who
are
you?"
The
man
opens
his
eyes
and
laughs
and
bows
down.
He
says,
"I
know
you
have
really
answered
what
is
soul."
Such
a
simple
device!
But
the
man
was
ready.
Someone
asks
Rinzai,
"Would
you
do
the
same
thing
when
anybody
asks?"
He
says,
"That
man
was
ready.
He
was
not
just
asking
for
the
question's
sake,
he
was
ready.
The
first
part
was
fulfilled;
he
was
really
asking.
This
was
a
life
and
death
question
to
him:
`What
is
soul?'
The
first
part
was
fulfilled
completely.
He
was
disillusioned
completely
of
life,
and
he
was
asking,
`What
is
soul?'
This
life
has
proved
just
a
death
to
him;
now
he
is
asking,
`What
is
life?'
So
no
answer
from
me
would
have
been
meaningful.
I
helped
him
to
just
stand
still
in
the
present."
Of
course,
when
someone
presses
your
neck
just
on
the
verge
of
killing
you,
you
cannot
be
in
the
future,
you
cannot
be
in
the
past.
You
will
be
here
and
now.
It
is
dangerous
to
miss
the
moment.
If
you
just
say
to
such
a
man,
"Go
deep
and
know
who
you
are,"
the
man
becomes
transformed.
He
goes
into
samadhi;
he
stands
still
in
the
moment.
If
you
are
in
the
present,
even
for
a
single
moment,
you
have
known,
you
have
encountered,
and
you
will
never
be
able
to
lose
the
track
again.
Spiritual
feeling
is
to
know
what
is
--
what
is
all
this.
Not
that,
this.
What
is
all
this
--
this
me
speaking,
this
you
hearing,
this
whole?
What
is
this?
Just
stand,
be
deep
in
this.
Let
it
open
to
you,
and
let
yourself
open
to
it.
Then
there
is
a
meeting.
That
meeting
is
the
seeking.
That
meeting
is
the
whole
search.
That
is
why
we
have
called
it
yoga.
Yoga
means
meeting.
The
very
word
yoga
means
meeting
--
joining
again,
becoming
one
once
more.
But
so-called
spiritual
seekers
are
not
seeking
any
spirituality.
They
are
only
projecting
their
desires
in
a
new
dimension.
And
no
desire
can
be
projected
in
this
spiritual
dimension,
because
this
spiritual
dimension
is
only
open
to
those
who
are
not
desiring.
So
those
who
desire
go
on
creating
new
illusions,
new
dreams.
Source:
“I
am
the
Gate”
-
Osho
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