The Goose Is Out

responses to questions

by Osho

10 talks given live   Mar. 1981
Pune, India

    Note:

    The title of this book comes from a Chinese
    Zen story that Osho relates many times in
    the course of these talks -- The Goose is
    Out. This anectode is included in the Zen
    collection Congrong Lu (The Book of
    Serenity, case 91), and is a story of the well
    known Chinese Zen master Nanquan Puyuan
    (J. Nansen) and a visiting government
    official, Lu Gen(Lu Xuan)  – an English
    translation of this story is reproduced below
    here:
           
    Lu Gen of the Tang dynasty was
    styled Jingshan: he was a man of Wu
    prefecture. In his official career he
    reached the post of inspector of
    Shexuan, and also was a member of
    the supreme court.

    He first asked Nanquan, "I've raised a
    goose in a bottle, and it gradually grew
    too big to get out; now, without
    damaging the bottle or injuring the
    goose, how would you get it out?"

     Nanquan called to him, "Sir!"

    Lu Gen responded, "Yes?"

    Nanquan said, "It's out."

    Lu Gen was awakened at this.


    Lao Tzu became enlightened through seeing
    a dead leaf falling from a tree.

    He was sitting under a tree meditating for
    years, and nothing was happening – and he
    had been to great Masters. Something was
    missing. He was trying too hard to grasp the
    truth; that very effort was the barrier. That
    early spring morning, the birds singing, the
    trees swaying, the sun shining, the fragrance
    of the flowers... he forgot all about
    enlightenment.

    Once in a while it is very good to forget all
    about enlightenment, otherwise it can drive
    you nuts – more than anything else! Money
    will not drive you so crazy, nor will politics,
    because they are all graspable. If you try hard
    you can get as much money as you want; just
    a little effort, a little cunningness, a little
    calculativeness – something Jewish in your
    blood -- and you can manage. Something of
    the insane in you and you can become a
    politician...

                                               – Osho
                                 The Goose Is Out, ch. 2
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Life Is a Flux
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The Goose Is Out, # 9
04:29
    The Goose is Out　

    Chinese pinyin:
    E chuqu le

    Chinese traditional:
    鵝出去了

    Chinese simplified:
    鹅出去了
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    The Goose Is Out, #5

    The Goose Is Out, #9

    The Goose Is Out, #10
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Discourse 2
Just See It
Discourse 3
No Peaks, No Valleys
Discourse 4
Transcendence Brings Buddhahood
Discourse 5
Perfectly Imperfect
Discourse 6
I Exalt the Ordinary
Discourse 7
Only One Time: Now
Discourse 8
The Dimension of the Mysterious
Discourse 9
Rejoice to Abandon!
Discourse 10
Dissolve in My People
Discourse 1
The Goose Is Out!    1:34:15
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