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About Kyozan: A True Man of Zen
Osho uses Kyozan’s life to make Zen as accessible to the contemporary seeker as preparing a cup of tea. Kyozan was such a simple and ordinary man that, as his own master put it, if it is possible for him to become enlightened it is possible for anyone.
These talks are filled with that promise, as Osho uses Kyozan’s life to make Zen as accessible as preparing a cup of tea.
These are not sermons in a church; these are communions. A discourse, a sermon,
remains within the limits of the mind. Only a communion can raise you beyond the mind,
and that which is beyond the mind is Zen.
Osho
Chapter Titles
Chapter 1: The Tremendous Statement
Chapter 2: Zen Is Like Wild Flowers
Chapter 3: A Very Fresh Communion
Chapter 4: A Stone Striking Bamboo
Excerpt from Kyozan: A True Man of Zen
Chapter 1
Kyozan was a very simple man – not the philosophic kind, not a poet, nor a sculptor. Nothing can be said about him except that he was absolutely authentic, honest. If he does not know a thing he will say so, even at the risk of people thinking that he has fallen from his enlightenment. But this makes him a unique master.
Zen is full of unique masters, but Kyozan’s uniqueness is his simplicity. He is just like a child. It took Isan, his master, forty years of hard work to make Kyozan enlightened. He was determined, and he said he would not leave the body until Kyozan became enlightened – though he was old enough.
Kyozan did everything that Isan said, but nothing penetrated to his very being. He was a very ordinary man. Heaven and hell, God and the beyond had never worried him. He was not a seeker in the sense every seeker is – a seeker of truth.
No, he was not seeking truth, because he is reported to have said that, "If you are seeking the truth you have certainly accepted that truth exists, and I will not accept anything on belief. So I am just seeking, searching in all directions, trying to come in tune with the universe.
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