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

CHAPTER 1. THE LANGUAGE OF SUDDENNESSAND WITH THE ECHOESIT BEGINS THE DAWN –THE SUMMER MOON.Basho is one of the greatest poets of the world, but he has written only haikus – very symbolicbut very miraculous, very simple but very mysterious. They are all to be understood throughvisualization, because Zen does not believe in words. Visualize and perhaps you may have someunderstanding. ”I clap my hands and with the echoes” – in the mountains – ”it begins the dawn –the summer moon.”The summer moon is still hanging and the sun is going to rise. And I have clapped my hands, andthe echoes are still resounding in the mountains. It is just a painting in words. A haiku has to beunderstood – a painting in words, not only a poetry in words – and it has to be visualized. Justvisualize yourself surrounded by mountains. And you...(OSHO CLAPS HIS HANDS.)... clap yourhands. The mountains go on echoing and the summer moon is still there and the dawn has come.The sun will be arising soon.Why should he write these small haikus? He used to live by the side of a lake surrounded bymountains, meditating in utter silence. Once in a while he would open his eyes and whatever hewould see, he would note down. These haikus are not out of the mind. These haikus are reflectionsin a mirror, in a no-mind. In a silent heart the summer moon, the dawn very close and he claps hishands, and all the mountains resound with echoes.A meditator, according to Basho, will go on searching deep within himself, but that does not meanthat he should lose contact with the outside world. Once in a while he should open his eyes. With allhis emptiness he should mirror the outside world. Those reflections are collected in these haikus.They don’t mean anything, they simply depict a picture.Question 1Maneesha has asked:BELOVED OSHO,MANY DISCIPLES HAVE DEDICATED BOOKS TO THEIR MASTER OUT OF LOVE ANDGRATITUDE. BUT CHARACTERISTICALLY, YOU HAVE TURNED TRADITION ON ITS HEAD BYDEDICATING TWO OF YOUR DISCOURSE SERIES TO SPECIFIC DISCIPLES.HAS ANY MASTER LOVED HIS DISCIPLES AS MUCH AS YOU SEEM TO LOVE US?Maneesha, when I see you all, I don’t see you the way you see yourself. I simply see possiblebuddhas. No master has dedicated his books to his disciples, because no master has that claritywhich can see the future in the present, which can see the rose in the seed. I can see. So whenI introduce you as buddhas, it is not symbolic, I mean it. It is not only love, but also respect. Myown understanding is: unless a master respects the disciple, he does not deserve respect from thedisciple. It is a communication, it is a give-and-take, it is a communion.Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen, with Basho’s Haikus9Osho