before going on with with my diary,
l'd love to post what my Master Osho shared about Zen Master Rinzai ...
Rinzai is one of the most loved masters in the tradition of Zen.
The first transmission of the light happened between Gautam Buddha and Mahakashyapa.
The second great transmission happened between Bodhidharma and his successor. Bodhidharma took the ultimate experience of consciousness from India to China;
Rinzai introduced the same consciousness, the same path of entering into oneself,
from China to Japan.
These three names - Mahakashyapa, Bodhidharma and Rinzai - stand like
great peaks of the Himalayas.
One of the most difficult things is to change an experience into explanation, and from one language to another it becomes almost an impossible task. But Bodhidharma managed it, and Rinzai also managed.
Osho - excerpt from "Rinzai: Master of the Irrational" chapter 1
Rinzai is one of the most famous Zen masters.
Just as Bodhidharma took dhyan to the land of China, Rinzai brought from China
-- his Chinese name is Lin Chi -- the same lamp, the same light, to Japan.
It is a tremendous transmission from one land to another land,
from one master to another master, and it is the only tradition in the world which is still breathing, still alive.
Osho - excerpt from "Turning In" chapter 3
l'd love to post what my Master Osho shared about Zen Master Rinzai ...
Rinzai is one of the most loved masters in the tradition of Zen.
The first transmission of the light happened between Gautam Buddha and Mahakashyapa.
The second great transmission happened between Bodhidharma and his successor. Bodhidharma took the ultimate experience of consciousness from India to China;
Rinzai introduced the same consciousness, the same path of entering into oneself,
from China to Japan.
These three names - Mahakashyapa, Bodhidharma and Rinzai - stand like
great peaks of the Himalayas.
One of the most difficult things is to change an experience into explanation, and from one language to another it becomes almost an impossible task. But Bodhidharma managed it, and Rinzai also managed.
Osho - excerpt from "Rinzai: Master of the Irrational" chapter 1
Rinzai is one of the most famous Zen masters.
Just as Bodhidharma took dhyan to the land of China, Rinzai brought from China
-- his Chinese name is Lin Chi -- the same lamp, the same light, to Japan.
It is a tremendous transmission from one land to another land,
from one master to another master, and it is the only tradition in the world which is still breathing, still alive.
Osho - excerpt from "Turning In" chapter 3
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