AND THE FLOWERS SHOWERED, Discourses on Zen (Tvrde korice)
Autor: Osho
Izdavač: The Rebel Publishing House, India, 1992.
Strana: 239
This book is the transcript of Osho’s talks on Zen, Zen masters and Zen life based on 11 selected Zen stories. The book begins with the story of Subhuti, one of Buddha’s disciples who one day, when sitting under a tree in a mood of sublime emptiness, flowers began to fall around him.”We are praising you for your discourse on emptiness”, the gods whispered to him. “But I have not spoken of emptiness”, said Subhuti. “You have not spoken of emptiness, we have not heard emptiness” responded the gods,”this is true emptiness.” And blossoms showered upon Subhuti like rain.
Buddhism teaches us to drop totally all the three layers of our self; the world of things, the world of thoughts and the world of self. It says, “When you are not, the whole existence feels ecstatic and celebrates; flowers shower on you.”
The whole essence of Zen teachings is that everything is empty, everything is just relative and nothing exists absolutely. Zen also says that one need not be too bothered or concerned with what comes and goes like anger, hate and love. Anger arises and goes, hate arises and goes, love arises and goes - anything that comes and goes is not one’s true nature. Here Osho reminds us of Sigmund Freud and Freudian analysis. The whole Freudian analysis is concerned with things that come and go. It is concerned with what happened and not to whom it happened - and that is the difference between Zen and Freud. In Osho’s words “Lying down on a Freudian couch one is concerned with the objects of the mind. Sitting in a Zen monastery one is concerned with to whom it happened - not with the objects but with the subject.”
The basic thing of Zen is not to hit the target but to attain a non-trembling being. If the arrow moves from a non-trembling being it will hit the target; because the end is in the source, the end is in the beginning, the tree is in the seed.
Zen masters have lived a very ordinary life. They have lived as householders, farm workers, gardeners, helpers in grocery shops and the likes. But a Zen master renounces mind, lives life in its totality. He drops mind and becomes simple existence Here is the story of Tozan’s Five Pounds:
The master Tozan was weighing flax in the storeroom.
A monk came up to him and asked: “What is Buddha?”
Tozan said: “This flax weighs five pounds.”
What Tozan means when he says “This flax weighs five pounds”, according to Osho is that this very ordinary life is Buddha, this very ordinary life is truth, this very ordinary life is God.
The very reading of this book can transform the whole mindset of the reader.
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