Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho's Haikus - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 9. THE BUDDHA IS YOUR EMPTY HEART”Yes,” replies Sean, ”I remember that.””Good,” says Sharkfin, ”I hope the jury takes note of it.”Then Sean’s own lawyer comes over to Sean and says, ”Would you mind telling the court thecircumstances you were in when you said, ‘I’ve never felt better in my life’?””Certainly,” replies Sean. ”I was lying there on the ground when a police car drives up and the deputysheriff gets out. He tells me that my horse is screaming with pain and has two broken legs. He thentakes out his gun, points it into the horse’s ear and finishes him off.”He then tells me that my dog is whining with pain and has a broken back. So he sticks his gun intothe dog’s ear and finishes him off.”Then he turns to me and says, ‘Now, how are you feeling?’”Nivedano...(Drumbeat)(Gibberish)(Drumbeat)Be silent.Close your eyes.Feel your body to be completely frozen. Now look inwards with your total consciousness and withan urgency as if this is going to be your last moment.Deeper and deeper... At the deepest is your center. This center joins you with the universal life.And this center is called the buddha, because at this center one becomes so alert, so conscious, soawakened. The buddha is only a symbolic name.This moment you are all buddhas. It is up to you to remain twenty-four hours a buddha, or takehere and there a few holidays. But once you have known the beauty, and the joy, and the grandeur,and the splendor of being a buddha, you will not want to go back to the blind valleys, in darknessgroping. At this moment you are the light.To make it more clear, Nivedano...(Drumbeat)Relax.Just be a witness of the body, of the mind and of everything. This witnessing is the only thing whichis eternal in existence. Everything is changing. Just the reflecting witness remains here and nowwithout any change. This is the very center of existence.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 130 Osho