Osho - A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

Towards Nothingness

The first question:

I have developed a bad case of seekers ego. It constantly tries
to congratulate me on the great progress I have made. You
hammer me, and it falls apart, but it comes back. Nothing to do
but watch it -- and yet it frightens me. Will you comment?

Osho - A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

Laugh Your Way to God

In the Tang dynasty there was a stout fellow who was called
the happy chinaman, or the laughing Buddha.


This Hotei had no desire to call himself a Zen master, or to
gather disciples around him. Instead he walked the streets
with a sack on his back full of candy, fruit and doughnuts --
which he gave out to the children who gathered and played
around him.

Osho - A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

Choicelessness is Bliss

The first question:

"Only compassion is therapeutic" you said. Could you comment on the word 'compassion', compassion for oneself and compassion for the other?

YES, only compassion is therapeutic -- because all that is ill in man is because of lack of love. All that is wrong with man is somewhere associated with love. He has not been able to love, or he has not been able to receive love. He has not been able to share his being.

Osho - A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

Only the Gold

ONCE THERE WAS A MAN OF CH'I WHO WANTED GOLD. AT DAWN HE PUT
ON HIS COAT AND CAP AND SET OUT FOR THE MARKET.

HE WENT TO THE STALL OF A DEALER IN GOLD, SNATCHED HIS GOLD,

AND MADE OFF
THE POLICE CAUGHT HIM AND QUESTIONED HIM. "WHY DID YOU SNATCH
SOMEBODY ELSE'S GOLD, AND IN FRONT OF SO MANY PEOPLE?"

THE MAN REPLIED:
"AT THE TIME WHEN I TOOK IT I DID NOT SEE THE PEOPLE -- I ONLY SAW
THE GOLD."

Osho - A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

Life Undefined is What God is

The first question:

Leaving soon for the west
I look back on the five months with you and think:
I have been with Bhagwan and I have not been with Bhagwan.

I have seen him and yet something remains unseen.


I have heard him yet still I am deaf to his teaching.

I leave with no feeling of security, no sense of certainty,
nothing to rely on.

Have I missed you?

Osho - A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

Listen to the Waves

A WRESTLER NAMED O-NAMI GREAT WAVES, WAS IMMENSELY STRONG
AND HIGHLY SKILLED IN THE ART OF WRESTLING. IN PRIVATE BE
DEFEATED EVEN HIS VERY TEACHER, BUT IN PUBLIC HIS OWN YOUNG
PUPILS COULD THROW HIM.


IN HIS TROUBLE HE WENT TO A ZEN MASTER WHO WAS STOPPING AT A
NEARBY TEMPLE BY THE SEA, AND ASKED FOR COUNSEL.

Osho - A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

Man is Always an Opening

The Frist Question 

I believed I was uncreative. What else can be creativity besides
dancing and painting and how to find out what my creativity is?

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular -- with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

Osho - A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

Why Should I Grieve Over Him?

There was a man of Wei, Tung-Men Wu, who did not grieve when
his son died.

His wife said to him:
"No one in the world loved his son as much as you did, why do
you not grieve now he is dead?"

He answered:

"I had no son, and when I had no son I did not grieve.
Now that he is dead it is the same as it was before, when I had no son.
Why should I grieve over him?"

Osho - A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

When you are Not, God is

The first question:

I have been thinking all day of a way to ask the question: how
to stop thinking?

Thinking cannot be stopped. Not that it does not stop, but it cannot be stopped. It stops of its own accord. This distinction has to be understood, otherwise you can go mad chasing your mind.

No-mind does not arise by stopping thinking. When the thinking is no more, no-mind is.

Osho - A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

A Sudden Clash of Thunder

Butei, the emperor of Ryo, sent for Fu-Daishi to explain the
Diamond Sutra. On the appointed day Fu-Daishi came to the
palace, mounted the platform, rapped on the table before him,
then descended and, still not speaking, left.

Butei sat motionless for some minutes, whereupon Shiko, who
had seen all that had happened, went up to him and said, "may I
be so bold, Sir, as to ask whether you understood?"

Osho A Sudden Clash Of Thunder

BUTEI, THE EMPEROR OF RYO, SENT FOR FU-DAISHI TO EXPLAIN THE DIAMOND SUTRA.

Now the Diamond Sutra is really a Kohinoor; it is one of the most significant utterances ever uttered on this earth. Buddha's sayings in the Diamond Sutra are the most precious.

But the basic thing in the Diamond Sutra is that nothing can be explained, that life is utterly unexplainable; that life is such that all explanations fall short, that all philosophies prove very narrow. The sky of life is so vast that there is no way to confine it in any hypothesis or doctrine.