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1、Christianity: The Deadliest Poison and Zen: The Antidote to All PoisonsTalks given from 22/01/89 pm to 29/01/89 pmEnglish Discourse series8 ChaptersYear published: 1989Christianity: The Deadliest Poison and Zen: The Antidote to All PoisonsChapter #1Chapter title: The opium of the people22 January 19
2、89 pm in Gautam the Buddha AuditoriumArchive code: 8901225ShortTitle: CHRIST01Audio: YesVideo: YesLength: 151 minsOUR BELOVED MASTER,ON ONE OCCASION, YAKUSAN WROTE DOWN THE CHINESE CHARACTER SIGNIFYING BUDDHA, AND ASKED HIS DISCIPLE, DOGO: WHAT IS THIS LETTER?DOGO REPLIED, ITS THE LETTER FOR BUDDHA.
3、YAKUSAN COMMENTED, YOU ARE A MONK SO FULL OF CHATTER!ONCE, AT THE EVENING DISCOURSE, YAKUSAN DIDNT LIGHT THE CANDLE AS USUAL. A MONK CAME AND STOOD BY HIS SIDE. YAKUSAN SAID, I HAVE A VERY SPECIAL PHRASE. IF A BULL GIVES BIRTH, I WILL TELL IT TO YOU.THE MONK SAID, THE BULL HAS ALREADY GIVEN BIRTH LO
4、NG AGO, AND YOU JUST KEEP NOT REVEALING IT.YAKUSAN ASKED FOR A LIGHT. WHEN THE CANDLE WAS BROUGHT IN, THE MONK RETREATED AND DISAPPEARED INTO THE ASSEMBLY OF MONKS.LATER UNGAN TOLD TOZAN ABOUT THIS, AND TOZAN SAID, THE MONK KNEW THE TRUTH - HE JUST DIDNT WANT TO MAKE OBEISANCE TO THE MASTER.Friends,
5、Question 1One of the sannyasins has asked me a question.IF THE TRUTH IS ONE, THEN WHY DO ALL THE MASTERS, ALL THE AWAKENED ONES, SPEAK IN DIFFERENT WAYS? SOMETIMES IT EVEN LOOKS AS IF THEY ARE CONTRADICTORY.The truth is certainly one, but it has multidimensional reality, and every master has to choo
6、se a certain dimension. You cannot speak all the dimensions together.Every master has his own style, his own way of speaking, his own way of conveying. The higher you rise in consciousness and awareness, the more you become unique, the more you become individual.But let me explain to you:Individuali
7、ty is not personality.Personality is given by the society to you. Individuality is your intrinsic nature. Personality is fake, a fraud. Individuality is your innermost buddha, your innermost enlightenment, your innermost door to the divine.But every master is bound to be unique in his expressions. T
8、hey are all saying the same thing, they are all indicating towards the same moon, but their fingers are different. They are bound to be different. The finger of Buddha, the finger of Lao Tzu, the finger of Chuang Tzu, are bound to be different. If you pay too much attention to the finger, there is e
9、very possibility you will forget the purpose. The purpose was not the finger, the purpose was the moon.All the differences are in the fingers, in their expressions. The experience of truth is one, but to bring it to expression, every master has to find his own device. Thats why even enlightened peop
10、le appear to you to be speaking differently, even contradictorily - because existence does not have one-dimensional sources, it is multidimensional. It is comprehensive of all contradictions. All contradictions melt into one cosmos.Now, you cannot express the whole cosmos in any statement. All philo
11、sophies fall short, and all languages appear impotent. All theologies only manage a very partial truth. And remember, a partial truth is not truth. You cannot cut truth into parts. It is one, and organically one, not mechanically one.You can take a car apart, and you can put those parts together aga
12、in, but you cannot do the same with a living organism. You cannot take a mans parts apart, and then put them together. You can do it, but the man will not be there. There will be only a corpse in your hands.But it is one of the most difficult problems faced by all awakened ones: How to convey it?The
13、y find devices, methods, meditations. They open doors so that you can look at the truth yourself. Of course, every master will have his own door. Existence has millions of approaches, and when a master reaches to the truth, he reaches by one path. Obviously, he will talk about the path by which he h
14、as reached to the truth.Truth is one, but paths are many. And unless we understand it, there is going to be a constant conflict and misunderstanding in the minds of the seekers.I am reminded of one of the greatest Urdu poets, Ghalib. Three hundred years have passed, but in three hundred years no poe
15、t so great has been born in the Urdu language. It is a very poetic language, I dont think there is any other language in the world which is so poetic. Contemporary languages are bound to be non-poetic; they have to be scientific, exact. Poetry is flexible; poetry does not say directly, it only hints
16、.This great poet, Mirza Ghalib, has a very beautiful statement. I would like to repeat it first in his own language, then I will translate it.HAIN AUR BHI DUNIYAN MEN SUKHANBAR BAHUT ACHCHHEKAHTE HAIN GHALIB KA HAI ANDAJE BAYAN AUR.HAIN. DUNIYAN MEN SUKHANBAR BAHUT ACHCHHE. In the world there are many great poets, but it is said that Ghalibs way of saying, his style, his nuance, is absolutely unique.Every master is unique, just like an Everest, standing far
