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.