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Osho Books — Darshan Diaries
Eighty Four Thousand
Poems
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Apr. 1980
Pune, India
this volume has yet to be
published in book form.

    Just this morning I was reading a Zen master,
    Sotoba. The day he experienced truth, the day he
    became enlightened, he wrote these beautiful lines:

    'The mountain --
    Buddha's body.
    The torrent -- his preaching.
    Last night, eighty-four thousand poems.
    How, how make them understand?'

    The experience is so vast as if eighty-four thousand
    poems have suddenly arisen in you. And you cannot
    express even a single poem! He says, 'How, how
    make them understand'?

    Every awakened person has felt a tremendous
    compassion for people. And he has tried his best.
    But something in the very experience Is such that it
    cannot be expressed...

                                                            – Osho
                            Eighty Four Thousand Poems, ch. 1