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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Matthew 22 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 “Master, which is the great commandment in the law” 37 Jesus said unto him, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” 38 “This is the first and great commandment.” 39 “And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” 40 “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

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Matthew 21 12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and  cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the  tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves. 13 And said unto them, “It is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.” 23  And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders  of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, “By what  authority doest thou these...

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Matthew 16 13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea  Phillipi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Whom do men say that I, the  son of man, am?” 14 And they said, “Some say that thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.” 15 He saith unto them, “But whom say ye that I am?” 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17  And Jesus answered and said unto him, “Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona:  for...

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