The Diamond Sutra by Osho

Author:Osho
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-05-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter title: A Dweller in Peace

27 December 1977 am in Buddha Hall

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DIAMON07

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VAJRACHCHEDIKA

PRAJNAPARAMITA

SUTRA

OF

GAUTAMA

THE

BUDDHA

THE LORD THEN SAID:

'YES, SUBHUTI, FOR THE TATHAGATA HAS TAUGHT

THAT THE DHAMMAS SPECIAL TO THE BUDDHAS

ARE JUST NOT A BUDDHA'S SPECIAL DHAMMAS.

THAT IS WHY THEY ARE CALLED

"THE DHAMMAS SPECIAL TO THE BUDDHAS".'

THE LORD ASKED:

'WHAT DO YOU THINK, SUBHUTI,

DOES IT OCCUR TO THE STREAMWINNER,

"BY ME HAS THE FRUIT OF A STREAMWINNER

BEEN ATTAINED"?

SUBHUTI REPLIED: 'NO INDEED, O LORD.

AND WHY?

BECAUSE, O LORD, HE HAS NOT WON ANY DHAMMA.

THEREFORE IS HE CALLED A STREAMWINNER.

NO SIGHT-OBJECT HAS BEEN WON,

NO SOUNDS, SMELLS, TASTES, TOUCHABLES,

OR OBJECTS OF MIND.

THAT IS WHY HE IS CALLED A "STREAMWINNER".

IF, O LORD, IT WOULD OCCUR TO A STREAMWINNER,

"BY ME HAS A STREAMWINNER'S FRUIT BEEN ATTAINED,"

THEN THAT WOULD BE IN HIM A SEIZING ON A SELF,

SEIZING ON A BEING,

SEIZING ON A SOUL,

SEIZING ON A PERSON.'

THE LORD ASKED:

'WHAT DO YOU THINK, SUBHUTI,

DOES IT THEN OCCUR TO THE ARHAT,

"BY ME HAS ARHATSHIP BEEN ATTAINED"?'

SUBHUTI: 'NO INDEED, O LORD.

AND WHY?

BECAUSE NO DHAMMA IS CALLED "ARHAT".

THAT IS WHY HE IS CALLED AN ARHAT.

AND WHY?

I AM, O LORD, THE ONE WHOM THE TATHAGATA

HAS POINTED OUT AS THE FOREMOST OF THOSE

WHO DWELL IN PEACE.

I AM O LORD, AN ARHAT FREE FROM GREED.

AND YET, O LORD, IT DOES NOT OCCUR TO ME,

"AN ARHAT AM I AND FREE FROM GREED."

IF, O LORD, IT COULD OCCUR TO ME

THAT I HAVE ATTAINED ARHATSHIP,

THEN THE TATHAGATA WOULD NOT HAVE DECLARED OF ME

THAT "SUBHUTI, THIS SON OF GOOD FAMILY,

WHO IS THE FOREMOST OF THOSE

WHO DWELL IN PEACE,

DOES NOT DWELL ANYWHERE;

THAT IS WHY HE IS CALLED

A DWELLER IN PEACE, A DWELLER IN PEACE".'

A Dweller in Peace

The Diamond Sutra will appear to most of you as absurd, as mad. It is irrational but not anti-rational. It is something beyond the reason, that's why it is so difficult to express it in words.

Once a whisky-drinking, chainsmoking and popcorn-munching American priest was staying with me. Roaming in my library, accidentally he found The Diamond Sutra. For just ten to fifteen minutes he looked into it here and there, then he came to me and said,

"This man Buddha must have been mad. And not only was he mad, he had mad followers too.'

I can understand his statement. Buddha will look mad to you too, because he is trying to say that which cannot be said. He is trying to catch hold of something which is essentially elusive. Hence all these strange sayings -- they ARE strange. They are strange because the way they are put, the way they are expressed, is not logical. It does not make any sense, not at least on the surface.

And if you have not felt something of the beyond, it is very difficult for you to understand what Buddha is trying to do. We can understand only that which we have experienced, if not in toto then at least in part. Otherwise our understanding remains rooted in our experience.

It happened:

Charlie had been to school that morning for the first time. When he came home his mother said, "Well, Charlie, how do you like school?"

"I like it well enough, but I have not got my present yet.

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