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CHAPTER 2The great pearl27 September 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha AuditoriumBELOVED OSHO,ON ONE OCCASION HYAKUJO SAID, ”IF WE ARE ATTACHED TO A VIEWPOINT THAT WEARE NATURALLY THE BUDDHAS AND THAT WE ARE IN ZEN BUDDHISM BECAUSE WEARE ORIGINALLY PURE AND ENLIGHTENED, WE ARE AMONG NON-BUDDHISTS WHO DENYCAUSALITY.”AT ANOTHER TIME A VINAYA MASTER NAMED YUAN ONCE CAME TO HYAKUJO AND ASKED,”DO YOU MAKE EFFORTS IN YOUR PRACTICE OF THE TAO, MASTER?”HYAKUJO REPLIED, ”YES, I DO. WHEN HUNGRY, I EAT; WHEN TIRED, I SLEEP.”YUAN ASKED, ”AND DOES EVERYBODY MAKE THE SAME EFFORTS AS YOU DO, MASTER?”HYAKUJO ANSWERED, ”NOT IN THE SAME WAY. WHEN THEY ARE EATING, THEY THINK OF AHUNDRED KINDS OF NECESSITIES, AND WHEN THEY ARE GOING TO SLEEP THEY PONDEROVER AFFAIRS OF A THOUSAND DIFFERENT KINDS. THAT IS HOW THEY DIFFER FROM ME.”AT THIS, THE VINAYA MASTER WAS SILENCED.ON ANOTHER OCCASION, THE VENERABLE TAO KUANG ASKED HYAKUJO, ”MASTER, WHATMENTAL PROCESSES DO YOU EMPLOY IN PURSUING THE TAO?”HYAKUJO ANSWERED, ”I HAVE NO MENTAL PROCESSES THAT WOULD BE OF USE, AND NOTAO TO FOLLOW.”16
CHAPTER 2. THE GREAT PEARLTAO KUANG ASKED, ”IF BOTH THOSE STATEMENTS ARE TRUE, WHY IS IT THAT EVERYDAY YOU CONVENE GATHERINGS DURING WHICH YOU URGE OTHERS TO LEARN HOWTO FOLLOW THE TAO BY MEANS OF ZEN?”HYAKUJO SAID, ”THIS OLD MONK DOES NOT POSSESS EVEN A DOT OF GROUND IN WHICHTO STICK AND AWL.””WHY, MASTER, YOU ARE LYING TO MY FACE!” EXCLAIMED TAO KUANG.HYAKUJO REPLIED, ”HOW CAN THIS OLD MONK, BEING WITHOUT TONGUE TO URGEPEOPLE, TELL A LIE?””I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE WAY THE VENERABLE ZEN MASTER TALKS,” SAID TAO KUANG.WHEREUPON HYAKUJO SAID, ”NOR DOES THIS OLD MONK UNDERSTAND HIMSELF.”Maneesha, this series of talks is entitled THE GREAT PEARL, HYAKUJO, WITH THE HAIKUS OFBASHO. Hyakujo is immensely expressive and knows what he is doing and how to bring people tothe unknowable.Basho never wrote prose. Basho is one of the greatest poets in the world. His greatness is not in hispoetry – there are far greater poets as far as the composition of poetry is concerned. His greatnessis that his poetry is not just verbiage, is not just putting words together according to a certain pattern,his poetry is an experience.I have put them together because Hyakujo never wrote any poetry. His approach is very proseand direct, and the haikus supplement what is missing in the prose. Basho expressed himself verygraphically. His experiences are more paintings than poetry. And his understanding is – and I agreewith him – that where prose fails, poetry may succeed. Poetry has a more feminine way, more subtle,more graceful, entering into the heart.Prose directly enters into the head and immediately becomes a concern of logic and reason. Poetryhas a different root, a different path. You don’t bring in rationalization as far as poetry is concerned.Something else becomes stirred in you, something deeper than the mind. Poetry cannot be alogical statement. It is an existential statement – what Basho himself has seen he has tried to putinto words. Hence I have put together two great masters.The name, THE GREAT PEARL is Hyakujo’s old name in Chinese. His childhood name wasChu, and Chu means pearl. Both are Himalayan peaks, and together they are going to createa tremendous harmony. What prose can say in a very straightforward way, poetry cannot say inthat straightforward manner. But there is much that is left out. Poetry can pick up that which isleft out because it has no obligation to any logic, no obligation to any grammar, no obligation toany formulation. It has a certain freedom which prose has not, so it can say things that prose willbecome embarrassed to say. The Great Pearl applies to both. They both are the most beautiful Zenmasters.Before I discuss Hyakujo’s and Basho’s sutras... Yesterday I introduced you with a biographical noteon Hyakujo. Today I want to introduce you with the biography of Basho.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus 17 Osho
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