THIS VERY BODY THE BUDDHA


Song on Hakuin’s Song of Meditation

This Very Body The Buddha is Osho’s comment on the Song Of Hakuin

Hakuin is one of the greatest Zen masters and his Song of Meditation is commented on by Osho in this book. Hakuin’s song is so small and yet so much truth, so much love and so much insight is condensed into a few words. According to Osho it contains all the Bibles, all the Korans and all the Vedas. Hakuin is sharing his buddhahood in this song which says: “ All beings are from the very beginning buddhas.” Zen people call this single sentence “The Lion’s Roar.” Hakuin says, it happens through meditation that one discovers or rediscovers one’s buddhahood. He also says that there need not be any worry about sins and past karma as all that can be burnt in a single sitting of meditation.
Hakuin’s song is a very condensed statement of buddhahood. It says one need not go any where to seek and search because all is here in this shore. This is the only shore and the other shore is hidden in this shore.
“This very place the lotus paradise,
This very body the Buddha.” 

This Very Body The Buddha 

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This Very Body The Buddha

 

In This Very Body The Buddha is this fragment very characteristic for Osho’s Vision: LOVE

“MY BELOVED ONES: I love you. Love is my message – let it be your message too. 
Love is my color and my climate. To me, love is the only religion. All else is just rubbish, all else is nothing but mind-churning dreams. 
Love is the only substantial thing in life, all else is illusion. Let love grow in you and God will be growing on its own accord. If you miss love you will miss God and all. 
There is no way to God without love. God can be forgotten – if love is remembered, God will happen as a consequence. It happens as a consequence. It is the fragrance of love and nothing else. In fact there is no God but only godliness.” Osho, This Very Body the Buddha #1  

Hakuin says: All that has been done in the name of religion down the ages, can be reduced to one single thing, and that is meditation — DHYANA. And what is DHYANA? Becoming aware of your physical body — the first DHYANA, the first step of meditation. Becoming watchful of your physical body. Watch yourself walking, watch yourself eating, watch yourself running, talking, listening. Watch. And through watching you will see you are different from the physical body. Because the watcher cannot be the watched, the observer cannot be the observed, the seer cannot be the seen, the knower cannot be the known. 

Watch the physical body, and the second body will arise. It is there — but you will start feeling. You will start recognizing it, it will start penetrating you. This is the first step of meditation: watch the physical body. Then the second step, and the last, is: watch the bliss body. Watch your ecstasy. And then you will suddenly see, the watcher cannot be the watched. “Ecstasy is there, but I am far away from it. Bliss is there, but I am the knower of it.”