The White Lotus

Discourses on Fragmentary Notes of
Bodhidharma's Four Disciples

by Osho

11 talks given live   Nov. 1979
Pune, India


    On the surface you are my contemporaries, but
    between me and you there is a long, long
    distance. We live on different planets.

    In reality, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jesus, Pythagoras,
    Bahauddin, Bodhidharma – these are my
    contemporaries. Between them and me there is
    no gap either of time or of space. Superficially
    there is a one thousand years' gap between
    Buddha and Bodhidharma, but there is not even
    a single moment's gap in reality, in truth.

    On the circumference Buddha was already dead
    for one thousand years when Bodhidharma
    arrived on the scene, but at the center he is
    together with Buddha. He speaks the essence of
    Buddha – of course he has his own way, his own
    style, but even Buddha would find it strange.

    Buddha was a very cultured man, very
    sophisticated, very graceful. Bodhidharma is just
    the opposite in his expression. He is not a man
    but a lion. He does not speak, he roars...

                                                         – Osho
                                            The White Lotus, ch. 1
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    The White Lotus

    Chinese pinyin:
    Baise lianhua

    Chinese traditional:　
    白色蓮花

    Chinese simplified:
    白色莲花
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Discourse 2
Because I Love You
Discourse 3
Just Dreaming
Discourse 4
The Highest Flight
Discourse 5
The Eye of Zen
Discourse 6
No-Mind Innocence
Discourse 7
Lion Buddha
Discourse 8
Utterly Luminous
Discourse 9
Only in Silence
Discourse 10
A Love Affair with the Universe
Discourse 11
Truly Right
Discourse 1
Lotus Rain
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