OUR BELOVED MASTER, Dogo visited Nansen, who asked him, “What is your name?” Dogo replied, “My name is Enchi.” Nansen asked, “How do you express the place where wisdom doesn’t reach?” Dogo replied, “I would never express it.” Nansen said, “That’s right. If you express it, horns will grow and you will become a beast.” A  few days later, Dogo and Ungan were sitting outside the dormitory and  doing some work. Nansen was taking a walk, and when he saw Dogo, he  asked, “Enchi, the other day, you said you would never express the place  where wisdom doesn’t reach. Now, how are you practicing it?” Hearing this, Dogo slipped into the dormitory, waited there until Nansen walked away and then appeared again. Ungan asked Dogo, “Why didn’t you answer when Osho asked you the question?” Dogo replied, “What a clever chap you are!” Then  Ungan came up to Nansen and asked, “Osho, you have asked a question  just now of my brother-disciple, Enchi. How should one answer to it?” Nansen said, “He is quite good at the beasts’ way.” Ungan asked, “What is the beasts’ way?” Nansen  said, “You must have heard that you should never express the place  where wisdom doesn’t reach. If you express it, horns will grow. If you  name it so-and-so, it will already be wrong. You should immediately go  the beasts’ way.”

OUR BELOVED MASTER, On one occasion, a monk asked master Dogo: “Even if there is no cloud  for thousands of miles, it is not yet the original sky. What is the  original sky?” Dogo replied, “Today, it is good to dry wheat.” On another occasion, Dogo was asked by another monk, “What is the deepest?” Dogo  came down from his seat, made obeisance in the manner of women and  said, “You have come from far, and I have no answer for you.” At  another time, Sekiso Keisho asked Dogo, “After a hundred years, if  someone asks about the absolute meaning of the universe, what shall I  say to him?” Dogo called the boy attendant, who came, and told him to  fill up the water bottle. Dogo waited a while, and then said to Sekiso,  “What was it you asked just now?” Sekiso repeated the question. Dogo thereupon went back to his room, and at this, Sekiso became enlightened.

OUR BELOVED MASTER, One day, Ungan was sweeping the garden with a bamboo broom. His brother  Dogo came over to him and said, “Hey, you look terribly busy!” Ungan said, “Although busy, there is something which is not busy.” Dogo said, “That means there are two moons.” Then Ungan put the broom on the ground and said, “What moon is this?” Dogo silently left. At another time, Ungan asked a monk, “Where are you from?” The monk replied, “I came with incense.” Ungan asked, “Did you see Buddha?” The monk replied, “Yes, I did.” “Where did you see him?” Ungan asked. The monk replied, “I saw him in the lower world.” Ungan said, “The old buddha! The old buddha!”

OUR BELOVED MASTER, The monk, Sompu, was once washing a buddha statue. Yakusan came and  asked him, “Now you are washing this, but can you wash that?” Sompu replied, “Please get that and bring it to me.” The master didn’t say anything. On  another occasion, when Yakusan was sitting down, a monk came up to him  and said, “Osho, you are sitting silently. What are you thinking?” Yakusan replied, “I’m thinking the unthinkable.” The monk said, “How do you think the unthinkable?” Yakusan replied, “Non-thinking.” When Yakusan was about to die, he yelled out, “The hall is falling down! The hall is falling down!” The  monks brought various things and began to prop it up. Yakusan threw up  his hands and said, “No one of you understood what I meant!”

OUR BELOVED MASTER, The monk in charge of the monastery once said to Yakusan, “I have rung  the bell; please, Osho, it is time for the regular discourse.” Yakusan said, “Okay. You come and follow me, holding up my bowl.” The  monk didn’t understand the master’s meaning, and Ungan – who was also  present – asked, “Master, when did you lose your arms and legs?” Yakusan said, “You are simply wearing the monk’s habit.” Ungan replied, “I am not other than this. What about you, master?” “I don’t have such a family,” commented Yakusan. Once Yakusan called a boy monk to him. Dogo asked, “Why do you call such people?” Yakusan replied, “Because of this.” Dogo asked, “Why don’t you throw it away?” “Because I have used it for a long time,” replied Yakusan.

OUR BELOVED MASTER, Yakusan asked a monk, “Where do you come from?” “From Nansen,” was the reply. “How long were you there?” Yakusan continued. “From last winter to summer,” replied the monk. “Then you must have become a good ox,” commented Yakusan. The monk said, “The thing is, I was there, but I didn’t even go to the dining hall.” “But you cannot get by just through breathing the wind!” Yakusan commented. “It was not that bad, Osho,” said the monk. “There is surely a man who will hold a spoon for me.” On another occasion, Yakusan was returning to his temple with a bundle of firewood when a monk asked him, “Where have you been?” Yakusan replied, “I’ve got firewood.” The monk pointed to Yakusan’s sword and said, “It makes the sound ‘tap-tap.’ What in the world is it?” At this the master unsheathed the sword and assumed a warrior’s stance.

Luke 24 36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them: “Peace be unto you.” 37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 38 And he said unto them: “Why are ye troubled? And why do thoughts arise in your hearts?” 39  “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see,  for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” 40 And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them: “Have ye here any meat?” 42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycombe. 43 And he took it, and did eat before them. 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. 46 And said unto them: “Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day.” 47 “And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” 48 “And ye are witnesses of these things.”

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Matthew 27 26 Then released he Barabbas unto them, and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. 46  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying:  “Eli, Eli, lamasabachthani?” That is to say: “My God, my God, why hast  thou forsaken me?” 47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that said: “This man calleth for Elias.” 48 And straightway one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. 49 The rest said: “Let be. Let us see whether Elias will come to save him.” 50 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51 And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

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Matthew 26 47 And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of  the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves,  from the chief priests and elders of the people. 48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying: “Whomever I shall kiss, that same is he; hold him fast.” 49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said: “Hail, Master;” and kissed him. 55  In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes: “Are ye come out as  against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with  you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.” 56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled. Matthew 27 1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the governor. 11  And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him,  saying: “Art thou the king of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him: “Thou  sayest.” 12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then said Pilate unto him: “Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?” 14 And he answered to him never a word; insomuch that the governor marveled greatly.

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Matthew 26 36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place  called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples: “Sit ye here, while I  go and pray yonder.” 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them: “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Tarry ye here, and watch with me.” 39  And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying:  “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.  Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.” 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter: “What, could ye not watch with me one hour?” 41 “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 42  He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying: “O my Father,  if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be  done.” 43 And he came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. 44 And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. 45  Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them: “Sleep on now,  and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the son of man is  betrayed into the hands of sinners.” 46 “Rise, let us be going. Behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.” We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom Remember us – if at all – not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

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John 13 2 And supper being ended, 5 He poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. 6 Then cometh he to Simon Peter, and Peter saith unto him: “Lord, dost thou wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered and said unto him: “What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter.” 8 Peter saith unto him: “Thou shalt never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him: “If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.” 12  So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was  set down again, he said unto them: “Know ye what I have done to you?” 13 “Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say well; for so I am.” 14 “If I then, your lord and master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.” 15 “For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.” 21  When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and  said: “Verily, verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.” 27 Then said Jesus unto him: “That thou doest, do quickly.” 28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him. 31 Therefore, when Judas was gone out, Jesus said: “Now is the son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.” 34 “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” 35 “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

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John 13 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus  knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world  unto the father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved  them unto the end. Matthew 26 17 Now the first day of the  feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him:  “Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Passover?” 18  And he said: “Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him: ‘The  master saith, “My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at thy house  with my disciples.”’ 19 And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the Passover. Luke 22 14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. 15 And he said unto them: “With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer:” 16 “For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.” 17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said: “Take this, and divide it among yourselves:” 18 “For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of God shall come.” 19  And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them,  saying: “This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance  of me.” 20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying: “This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.”

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John 7 25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem… 27 “Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is?” 28  Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, “Both know me, and  ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me  is true, whom ye know not.” 29 “But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.” 30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. 31  And many of the people believed on him, and said, “When Christ cometh,  will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?” 32  The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him;  and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. 33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me…” 37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried,  saying, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.”

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