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Discourse 5
The Sky of Completion
The Sky of Completion
Osho,
Once, Hotetsu – a disciple of Ma Tzu – and Tanka Tennen, were
on a Zen tour visiting various Zen masters to ask questions. One
day, Hotetsu saw fish in a pond and motioned to them with his
hand.
Tanka said, “Tennen.”
The following day, Hotetsu asked Tanka, “What is the meaning of
what you said yesterday?”
Tanka threw his body to the ground and lay there, face down.
On his last day, Tanka said to his disciples, “Prepare a bath for
me – I am now going.”
Then he put on his straw hat, held a stick in his hand, put on his
sandals and took a step forward. But before his foot touched the
ground, he had died.
Friends,
First, a few questions. Somebody has asked:
I heard you say that we sometimes carry other people’s wounds.
What does this mean?
Is another person’s wound simply their thought pattern that we
adopt? If we can so easily accept someone else’s wound then why
is it so difficult to accept our own buddhahood?
It is a very complicated question, but if you are ready to
understand I am willing to answer. Everybody is carrying other
people’s wounds. In the first place, because you are living in a sick
society where people are angry, full of hate, enjoy to hurt – that is
the superficial level which can be understood easily. But there are
subtle levels, there are so-called religious saints who are creating
feelings of guilt in you, who are condemning you to be a sinner.
They are giving you an idea which will create misery around you.
And the older the idea is, people accept it more easily. Everybody
around the world is saying, “We are living in sin” – all these people
cannot be wrong. I am alone in declaring to you that you have
chosen to live in misery; it is your choice. You can drop it
immediately and dance in joy, in blissfulness.
But the wound is deep. And one becomes very much familiar with
one’s misery. One clings to it as if it gives you a certain coziness,
but it only gives you a life of hell. But your hell is supported by
everybody. If you are miserable everybody is sympathetic to you.
Have you ever gone into the matter? When you are miserable,
those who are sympathetic to you are nursing your misery. Have
you ever seen anybody sympathetic to you when you are dancing
with joy? When you are blissful, people are jealous, not
sympathetic.
According to me, the whole foundation of life has to be changed.
People should be sympathetic only when there is pleasure and joy
and rejoicing, because by your sympathy you are nourishing.
Nourish people’s joy, don’t nourish their sadness and their misery.
Be compassionate when they are miserable. Make it clear, “This
misery is chosen by yourself.”
On a deeper level – perhaps the questioner has not asked me to
go that deep, but the answer will remain incomplete if I don’t go
deep enough....
Once, Hotetsu – a disciple of Ma Tzu – and Tanka Tennen, were
on a Zen tour visiting various Zen masters to ask questions. One
day, Hotetsu saw fish in a pond and motioned to them with his
hand.
Tanka said, “Tennen.”
The following day, Hotetsu asked Tanka, “What is the meaning of
what you said yesterday?”
Tanka threw his body to the ground and lay there, face down.
On his last day, Tanka said to his disciples, “Prepare a bath for
me – I am now going.”
Then he put on his straw hat, held a stick in his hand, put on his
sandals and took a step forward. But before his foot touched the
ground, he had died.
Friends,
First, a few questions. Somebody has asked:
I heard you say that we sometimes carry other people’s wounds.
What does this mean?
Is another person’s wound simply their thought pattern that we
adopt? If we can so easily accept someone else’s wound then why
is it so difficult to accept our own buddhahood?
It is a very complicated question, but if you are ready to
understand I am willing to answer. Everybody is carrying other
people’s wounds. In the first place, because you are living in a sick
society where people are angry, full of hate, enjoy to hurt – that is
the superficial level which can be understood easily. But there are
subtle levels, there are so-called religious saints who are creating
feelings of guilt in you, who are condemning you to be a sinner.
They are giving you an idea which will create misery around you.
And the older the idea is, people accept it more easily. Everybody
around the world is saying, “We are living in sin” – all these people
cannot be wrong. I am alone in declaring to you that you have
chosen to live in misery; it is your choice. You can drop it
immediately and dance in joy, in blissfulness.
But the wound is deep. And one becomes very much familiar with
one’s misery. One clings to it as if it gives you a certain coziness,
but it only gives you a life of hell. But your hell is supported by
everybody. If you are miserable everybody is sympathetic to you.
Have you ever gone into the matter? When you are miserable,
those who are sympathetic to you are nursing your misery. Have
you ever seen anybody sympathetic to you when you are dancing
with joy? When you are blissful, people are jealous, not
sympathetic.
According to me, the whole foundation of life has to be changed.
People should be sympathetic only when there is pleasure and joy
and rejoicing, because by your sympathy you are nourishing.
Nourish people’s joy, don’t nourish their sadness and their misery.
Be compassionate when they are miserable. Make it clear, “This
misery is chosen by yourself.”
On a deeper level – perhaps the questioner has not asked me to
go that deep, but the answer will remain incomplete if I don’t go
deep enough....
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