He Understands Zen Intellectually – Osho
If I understand him rightly, Hubert Benoit seems to think that one does not need a Master to learn how to let go. He writes, “I have need of a Master to learn some movements that I wish to make with my...
View ArticleThe Fire of Attention – Charlotte Joko Beck
Back in the 1920’s, when I was maybe eight or ten years old, and living in New Jersey where the winters are cold, we had a furnace in our house that burned coal. It was a big event on the block when...
View ArticleA Bigger Container – Charlotte Joko Beck
At the age of ninety-five Genpo Roshi, one of the great Zen masters of modern times, was speaking of the “gateless gate,” and he pointed out that there truly is no gate through which we must pass in...
View ArticleA Revolution in Religion – Osho
When I first heard you say, “Sitting silently, doing nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself,” my Western mind thought this was a metaphor, and sought to find the meaning. Then I...
View ArticleA Being Energy – Osho
We all think we are aware; that is one of our unawarenesses. We are only functionally aware. We have learned to do things, to go to bed, to get up early in the morning, to go to the job. Everything has...
View ArticleA Cloud of Unknowing – Author Unknown
How a man’s love is wonderfully transformed in the interior experience of this nothingness and nowhere. How wonderfully is a man’s love transformed by the interior experience of this nothingness and...
View ArticleThe Unity of Emptiness – Osho
The world is there because of you – you create it, you are a creator. Every single being creates a world around himself, it depends on his mind. The mind may be illusory, but it is creative – it...
View ArticleImmediacy, the Whole Insistence of Zen – Osho
God is. Truth is. Love is. There is no way to say it, and there is no way to hide it. There is no word which can express it, and there is no methodology of how to keep it unexpressed. That is the...
View ArticleThe Master of the Shouts – Osho
A little note about Rinzai, master of the irrational. Rinzai, also known as Lin-Chi, was born in the early ninth century and was to become the founder of one of the most significant schools of Zen....
View ArticleNo Water, No Moon – Osho
Just before Ninakawa passed away the Zen master Ikkyu visited him. “Shall I lead you on?” Ikkyu asked. Ninakawa replied, “I came here alone, and I go alone. What help could you be to me?” Ikkyu...
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