Osho - I Celebrate Myself

Existence is celebration

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

ONE DAY, SEKITO ANNOUNCED TO EVERYBODY THAT THE NEXT DAY
THEY WOULD WEED THE GRASS IN FRONT OF THE BUDDHA HALL. THE
FOLLOWING DAY, ALL THE MONKS GATHERED WITH SICKLES IN THEIR
HANDS, BUT ONLY TANKA CAME WITH A TRAY FILLED WITH WATER.

BEFORE COMING THERE HE HAD WASHED HIS HAIR, BUT IT WAS NOT YET
SHAVEN. NOW HE KNEELED DOWN IN FRONT OF SEKITO, AND SEEING HIM,

Osho - I Celebrate Myself

Come to your own festival

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

SHODAI, WHO WAS BORN IN 738 IN CHINA AND DIED IN 820, WAS A DISCIPLE OF SEKITO.

SHODAI STAYED AT MOUNT NANGAKU UNDER SEKITO FOR THREE YEARS,
THEN WENT TO MOUNT SHUKO WHERE HE SAW MA TZU.

MA TZU ASKED, "WHAT DID YOU COME HERE FOR?"

SHODAI SAID, "I CAME HERE FOR BUDDHA'S JAMUNA DARSHAN."

Osho - I Celebrate Myself

Don't knock, wait!

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

GOSETSU AFTER BECOMING A MONK UNDER MA TZU, CAME TO SEKITO
AND SAID, "IF YOU SETTLE THIS WITH ONE WORD, I WILL STAY HERE. IF
NOT, I WILL LEAVE."

SEKITO, KNOWING THAT THIS MAN HAD PROMISE, MADE A

GESTURE, BUT
GOSETSU DID NOT GET IT. SO GOSETSU TOOK HIS LEAVE AND MADE FOR
THE GATE, WHEN SEKITO CALLED TO HIM "TEACHER!"

Osho - I Celebrate Myself

Showering invisible flowers

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

SEKITO'S "SONG OF THE GRASS HUT."

I MAKE A GRASS HUT IN WHICH INSIDE THERE IS NO WORLDLY TREASURE.

I EAT AND SLEEP NATURALLY AND EASILY. WHEN I MADE THE HUT, THE
REEDS WERE NEW. WHEN THE HUT GETS TORN, I COVER IT WITH REEDS

AGAIN. THE PERSON LIVING IN THE HUT IS ALWAYS THERE. HE DOES NOT
BELONG TO INSIDE OR OUTSIDE. I DO NOT LIVE WHERE ORDINARY PEOPLE
LIVE; I DO NOT LOVE WHAT ORDINARY PEOPLE LOVE.

Osho - I Celebrate Myself

The paradise of yourself

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

ONE TIME, WHEN DAITEN CAME TO SEKITO, THE MASTER ASKED HIM,
"ARE YOU A ZEN MONK OR AN ORDINARY MONK?"

DAITEN REPLIED, "I'M A ZEN MONK."

SEKITO ASKED, "WHAT is ZEN?"

DAITEN REPLIED, "IT IS RAISING EYEBROWS AND MOVING EYEBALLS."

SEKITO SAID, "EXCLUDING RAISING EYEBROWS AND MOVING EYEBALLS,
BRING YOUR ORIGINAL FACE AND SHOW IT TO ME."

Osho - I Celebrate Myself

Ringing bells in your heart

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

WHEN DAITEN FIRST CAME TO SEKITO, THE MASTER ASKED HIM, "WHAT
IS YOUR NO-MIND?"

DAITEN REPLIED, "THE ONE WHO SPEAKS IS IT."

AT THIS, SEKITO SHOUTED, "KWATZ!" -- AND LEFT.

TEN DAYS LATER, DAITEN AGAIN CAME TO SEKITO AND ASKED, "THE
LAST ANSWER I SAID TO YOU WAS NOT NO-MIND. WHAT IS NO-MIND?"

SEKITO SAID, "WITHOUT RAISING EYEBROWS OR MOVING EYEBALLS,
BRING YOUR NO-MIND HERE."

Osho - I Celebrate Myself

The grand rebellion

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

SEKITO SAID:

"MY TEACHING, WHICH HAS COME DOWN FROM THE ANCIENT BUDDHAS,
IS NOT DEPENDENT ON MEDITATION OR ON DILIGENT APPLICATION OF
ANY KIND.

"WHEN YOU ATTAIN THE INSIGHT AS ATTAINED BY THE BUDDHA, YOU
REALIZE THAT NO-MIND IS BUDDHA, AND BUDDHA IS NO-MIND; THAT NO-
MIND, BUDDHA, SENTIENT BEINGS, BODHI, AND KLESA, ARE OF ONE AND
THE SAME SUBSTANCE WHILE THEY VARY IN NAMES.

Osho I Celebrate Myself

"WHY DO YOU SAY NO-MIND IS NOT? THAT IS THE WRONG STATEMENT."

Just say I don't know. Say no-mind is not a thing, not a thought, hence it cannot be brought. But don't say no-mind is not. No-mind only is -- pure is.

AT THIS, DAITEN WAS GREATLY ENLIGHTENED -- hearing this

statement, that all that is, is no-mind. Isness and no-mind are two names of the same thing. This presence of life in the trees, in the stones, in people, in birds ... this vast isness, this presence is no- mind. You don't have to bring it here, it is already here. You cannot take it anywhere else.

As far as time is concerned, it is now.