Ancient Music in the Pines

Ancient Music in the Pines
In Zen, Mind Suddenly Stops
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In these talks, Osho brings to life the timeless wisdom of Zen. Using entertaining anecdotes of the exchanges between Zen masters and the people around them, his stimulating, profound and original commentaries make clear the meaning and significance of these stories for the present day. Osho also responds to the many questions people have as they explore their own inner worlds. He is quite merciless as he exposes people’s delusions and hypocrisy, but also compassionate and humorous. Like the Zen masters in these tales, he provokes his readers into a direct experience of the present moment.

Chapter Titles
    #1: Left Brain, Right Brain, Inner Conflict
    #2: The Meaning of Maturity
    #3: The Halo of Yakushi-buddha
    #4: Be a Light Unto Yourself
    #5: The Ultimate Secrets of Swordsmanship
    #6: Madmen and Devotees
    #7: The Proper State of Mind
    #8: Life, Death, and Love
    #9: You Have My Marrow

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In these talks, Osho brings to life the timeless wisdom of Zen. Using entertaining anecdotes of the exchanges between Zen masters and the people around them, his stimulating, profound and original commentaries make clear the meaning and significance of these stories for the present day.

Excerpt from: Ancient Music in the Pines, Chapter 1
   “Zen is the way of the spontaneous, effortless effort, the way of intuition. A Zen master, Ikkyu, a great poet, has said, ‘I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.’ This is what Zen is all about. You cannot see clouds a thousand miles away with the logical mind. The logical mind is like a glass, too dirty, much too covered with the dust of ideas, theories, doctrines. But you can see clouds a thousand miles away with the pure glass of intuition, with no thoughts, just pure awareness. The mirror is clean and the clarity supreme.

  “You cannot hear ancient music in the pines with the ordinary logical mind. How can you hear the ancient music? Music, once gone, is gone forever. But I tell you, Ikkyu is right. You can hear ancient music in the pines – I have heard it – but a shift, a total change, a change of gestalt, is needed. Then you can see Buddha preaching again and you can hear Buddha speaking again. You can hear the ancient music in the pines because it is eternal music, it is never lost.

   “You have lost the capacity to hear it. The music is eternal. Once you regain your capacity, suddenly it is again there. It has always been there, only you were not there. Be herenow, and you can also see clouds a thousand miles away and hear ancient music in the pines.

   “Change more and more toward the right hemisphere. Become more and more feminine, more and more loving, surrendering, trusting; more and more close to the whole. Don’t try to be an island, become part of the continent.”  Osho

In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
Sufis... parables... teaching... learning... spirituality... duality... ecology... interdependence... projections... self-knowledge... Let-go... masters... nonidentification... trust

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Type    Series of Talks
Publisher    OSHO Media International
ISBN    81-72610793
ISBN-13    978-0984444427
Dimensions (size)    145 x 210 mm
Number of Pages    160