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CHAPTER 8. WHAT WORDS CANNOT SAY...When thoughts stop, when suddenly one hits you, the whole world is in a whirl. Thoughts stop andyou are shocked. Even breathing stops: ”I was asking a relevant question and what kind of madmaster is he? He hits me...” And before you have opened your mind, he hits you again.Once Ma Tzu hit a person sixty-six times....Because he was hit, he was shocked and still started opening his mouth. Again another hit... untilhe stopped opening his mouth, until he understood that this opening of the mouth is creating thewhole trouble.But Ma Tzu was a totally different master, very loving and very compassionate – he had the right tohit.And as the man became silent, Ma Tzu closed his eyes, the man closed his eyes. Nothing wasasked, nothing was said, and everything was understood.Those sixty-six hits brought the man to the edge of the mind. He must have been an authenticseeker. He did not bother that his head might be broken... He did not care, but went on insisting foranother hit until he found some glimpse that prevented him from speaking.Seeing that he had found some glimpse, and was not going to speak, Ma Tzu closed his eyes. Theysat for hours together in silence.In that silence is the transfer, the transmission.The man bowed down, touched the feet of Ma Tzu, and he said, ”If there were more people like you,so compassionate to hit sixty-six times, the world would have become enlightened.”It was a totally different atmosphere where the hit was not thought to be an insult, it was thought tobe a message. What words cannot say, the hit was saying. The hit was saying: ”Keep quiet. Besilent. Be utterly silent.” And the master goes on hitting. He is saying, ”Go on digging deeper anddeeper. As I hit you from outside, you hit yourself inside until you reach the life source itself.”Hyakujo depended more on simple dialogue. His contribution is that he did not behave like a madZen master, he behaved very normally. He has brought Zen from the mountains to the marketplace.Naturally he has to behave according to the manners of the market. So the questions all are stupid.Each question needs a good hit.To answer, what Hyakujo has replied is that they are concurrent causes. They appear to be veryclose but they are not one. They can go separate ways; there is nothing to hinder them. Mind canremain empty without thoughts because thoughts are not intrinsically part, of the mind. They comeand go; you know they go on coming and going. Your mind is simply a caravanserai in which theystay for a while.In your whole life how many thoughts have passed in your mind? Exactly the same as the water thathas passed down the Ganges. Every mind is concurrent with a flowing river of thoughts.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 112 Osho
CHAPTER 8. WHAT WORDS CANNOT SAY...His answer is so clear that to ask him, ”WHAT IS THIS MIND WHICH LIES BEYOND WORDSAND SPEECH?” is absolutely nonsense. He has said, ”It is not mind and there is no relationshipbetween speech, and words, and mind.” They are two separate phenomena running together atclose distance but never meeting. Because it is beyond mind and beyond words and speech, a manof understanding would not have asked, ”What is this mind...?” because any answer will be wordsand speech.This mind cannot be spoken. This mind can be felt, this mind can be experienced. If the man hadasked how to experience this mind which is beyond words and speech, just that simple differencewould have made a great difference. That would have proved that the man is really a man of genius.He understands that something that is beyond words and speech and you are not supposed to askany question about what it is, because you are forcing the other person to bring something which isbeyond speech into speech, beyond words into words.But Hyakujo was very patient, had to be, because he is working in the marketplace not in a Zenmonastery, not amongst authentic seekers but amongst casual inquirers. And one sometimes simplywonders and laughs....I have been touring this country for thirty years or more. I have found people...I was going to catch a train. The train stopped for only ten minutes and somebody was holding myhand and saying, ”Just tell me, what is TRUTH?”I said, ”It will take a little time and I will miss my train. It is not something that I can give you rightnow. It will need a certain background within you, then only can I indicate to you what is truth. Thatcannot be done while my train is moving. Just let me go.”I have found people on the streets. They will stop, they will say, ”We don’t have much time to meditatebut can you just tell us in short what is meditation?” All over the world there are such people whoare in a hurry and want the ultimate experience in their hurry, in their haste.This man did not understand what had been said. If he had even been just a little intelligent, hewould have stopped. His stopping may have given him a glimpse. But rather than stopping heasked, ”What is this mind which is beyond words and speech?” Hyakujo does not act the way hewould have acted with a Zen seeker. This is just a curiositymonger. He answered him, ”THERE ISNO MIND BEYOND WORDS AND SPEECH.” What he is saying is that beyond words and speechthere is no mind.No-mind is the empty mind.No-mind is the empty heart.Nothing can be said about it more than this: that it is empty of what you call mind.THE MONK SAID, ”IF THERE IS NO MIND BEYOND WORDS AND SPEECH, WHAT IS THATMIND IN REALITY?”Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 113 Osho
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