Osho - Bodhidharma - The Greatest Zen Master

Bodhidharma: The Greatest Zen Master
Talks given from 05/07/87 am to 14/07/87 pm
English Discourse series
20 Chapters
Year published: 1987

I have a very soft corner in my heart for Bodhidharma. That makes it a very special occasion to speak about him. Perhaps he is the only man whom I have loved so deeply that speaking on him I will be almost speaking on myself. That also creates a great complexity, because he never wrote anything in his life. No enlightened being has ever written. Bodhidharma is not an exception, but by tradition these three books that we are going to discuss are attributed to Bodhidharma. The scholars reason that because there is no contrary evidence -- and for almost one thousand years, these books have been attributed to Bodhidharma -- there is no reason why we should not accept them. I am not a scholar, and there are certainly fragments which must have been spoken by Bodhidharma, but these are not books written by him. These are notes by his disciples. It was an ancient tradition that when a disciple takes notes from the master he does not put his own name on those notes, because nothing of it belongs to him; it has come from the master. But knowing Bodhidharma as intimately as I know him ... There are so many fallacies which are possible only if somebody else was taking notes and his own mind entered into it; he has interpreted Bodhidharma -- and with not much understanding.

Talk #1: To Seek Nothing Is Bliss
Talk #2: A Pilgrimage to Your Own Being
Talk #3: Beyond This Nature There’s No Buddha
Talk #4: Buddhas Don’t Practice Nonsense
Talk #5: Suchness Is Our Self-nature
Talk #6: Understanding Comes in Mid-sentence
Talk #7: Get ready and Claim Your Inheritance
Talk #8: Everybody Has the Right to be Wrong
Talk #9: Dead Men Don’t Bleed
Talk #10: Not to Be in the Mind Is Everything
Talk #11: Mind is the Greatest Enemy of Man
Talk #12: Every Suffering Is a Buddha-seed
Talk #13: Mind is the Bondage
Talk #14: To Face a Buddha Is Dangerous
Talk #15: Breakthrough…to Buddhahood
Talk #16: The Courage to Say “I Don’t Know”
Talk #17: Take the Risk Wholesale
Talk #18: Wakefulness Is Awareness
Talk #19: Relish the Mystery in the Depths of Your Heart
Talk #20: Less Than an Eye Blink Away

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