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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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The Fake Monk
Osho :
There is a famous Zen story. I would like to tell it to you.
A monk called himself the ’Master of Silence’. He was actually a fraud and
had no genuine understanding. To sell his humbug Zen, he had two eloquent
attendant monks to answer questions for him; but he himself never uttered a
word, as if to show his inscrutable ’silent Zen’.
One day, during the absence of his two attendants, a pilgrim monk came to
him and asked: ”Master, what is the Buddha?” Not knowing what to do or to
answer, in his confusion he could only look desperately round in all
directions – east and west, here and there – for his missing mouthpieces.
The pilgrim monk, apparently satisfied, then asked him: ”What is the dharma,
sir?” He could not answer this question either, so he first looked up at the
ceiling and then down at the floor, calling for help from heaven and hell.
Again the monk asked: ”What is Zen?” Now the Master of Silence could do
nothing but close his eyes. Finally the monk asked: ”What is blessing?” In
desperation. the Master of Silence helplessly spread his hands to the
questioner as a sign of surrender.
But the pilgrim was very pleased and satisfied with this interview. He left
the ’Master’ and set out again on his journey. On the road the pilgrim met
the attendant monks on the way home, and began telling them enthusiastically
what an enlightened being this Master of silence was.
He said: ”I asked him what
Buddha is. He immediately turned his face to the
east and then to the west, implying that human beings are always looking for
Buddha here and there, but actually Buddha is not to be found either in the
east or in the west. I then asked him what the dharma is. In answer to this
question he looked up and down, meaning that the truth of dharma is a
totality of equalness, there being no discrimination between high and low,
while both purity and impurity can be found therein.
In answering my question as to what Zen was, he simply closed his eyes and
said nothing. That was a clue to the famous saying: ’If one can close his
eyes and sleep soundly in the deep recesses of the cloudy mountains he is a
great monk indeed.’
Finally, in answering my last question, ’What is the blessing?’ he stretched
out his arms and showed both his hands to me. This implied that he was
stretching out his helping hands to guide sentient beings with his
blessings. Oh, what an enlightened Zen Master! How profound is his
teaching!”
When the attendant monks returned, the ’Master of Silence’ scolded them
thus: ”Where have you been all this time? A while ago I was embarrassed to
death, and almost ruined, by an inquisitive pilgrim"
Source: " Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol 3 " - Osho
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