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Dang Dang Doko Dang

talks on Zen

by Osho

10 talks given live   June 1976
Pune, India
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    Imagination is a great force. On the path of
    meditation, imagination is a barrier; on the
    path of love, imagination is a help.

    On the path of love, imagination is used as
    a device: you are told to imagine as
    intensely and passionately as possible. But
    on the path of meditation the same thing
    becomes a barrier.

    Imagination simply means that you visualize
    a certain thing but you put so much energy
    into it that it almost becomes real. Every
    night we all dream. While dreaming, every
    dream looks real. To come to know in a
    dream that this is a dream will be the end of
    it; then you will find yourself awake. The
    dream can continue only if you believe that
    it is real. And even people who are very
    skeptical, doubting, of the scientific attitude,
    even they go on believing in the night, they
    go on believing in their dreams.

    Every morning you find that it was just
    imagination but again every night you
    become a victim to it. And again when the
    dream unfolds you start believing it...

                                            – Osho
                      Dang Dang Doko Dang, ch. 2
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    Dang Dang Doko Dang

    Chinese pinyin:
    Jie da gu

    Chinese traditional:
    ("Beat the Drum")
    解打鼓

    Chinese simplified:
    解打鼓
    Here is a page on this site giving more
    explanation of the famous story of Zen
    Master Heshan 'Beating the Drum', with the
    reference of the original Chinese story, and
    Osho's retelling of this anecdote 12 years
    after the first one.
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Discourse 2
Magicless Magic
Discourse 3
As Within, So Without
Discourse 4
When Grapes Are Sour
Discourse 5
Two Ladies and a Monk
Discourse 6
Joy Is the Criterion
Discourse 7
Be a Light unto Yourself
Discourse 8
Another Sunday
Discourse 9
Zen: Truth, Discipline and Transcendence
Discourse 10
The Body Is a Friend
Discourse 1  
Never Pretend, Even About Skulls   1:34:57