OSHO The God Conspiracy - Baytallaah.com

These are the two lineages of Zen: Rinzai Zen and Soto Zen. Both are the same, they just come
from different masters; there is nothing basically different. But there have been so many
masters, it is really amazing that there are only two lines. There could have been a thousand
lines, but Zen is only given to the disciple if he is ready. Sometimes the master never finds a
single man who can carry the lineage, so that line is simply finished, comes to a full stop.
Many, many masters have lived, whose lines would go for two generations, three generations,
and then would stop; because it is not a question of following, it is a question of a direct transfer
between the master and the disciple. Unless the master chooses to transfer, that line is broken.
Only two lines are living still. One is Rinzai Zen -- we have talked about almost all the masters of
the Rinzai Zen sect. This Sekito Kisen belongs to the Soto line. You will not see any difference.
There cannot be any difference between two enlightened people.
IT IS SAID THAT BETWEEN MA TZU AND SEKITO, ZEN TOOK FLIGHT.
Ma Tzu was a very strange master -- you have heard about him. He walked just like an animal on
all fours; he never stood up on his legs -- not that there was any problem, not that he was
hunchback. He just walked on all fours because he said that is the most relaxed position. It is,
because man is standing almost despite nature. No animal stands on two legs, because when
you stand on two legs your heart has to pump against gravitation towards the head. This cuts
your life in half.
You could live one hundred and forty years if you walked like Ma Tzu. But please don't do it!
What will you do living a hundred and forty years When you are walking like an animal, your
blood flow is horizontal, and you are not putting extra stress on the heart. Ma Tzu would never
have had a heart attack, that was impossible. No animal ever has a heart attack, only man does,
because he has gone against nature.
He used to walk on four legs.... That is the whole theory of Charles Darwin, of evolution, that
man one day was an animal. What kind of animal Maybe there are different opinions, but one
thing is certain, at one time he used to walk on four legs. There were no heart attacks. Just see
how healthy animals are -- except in a zoo; in a zoo they become more human. See the animals
in the wild.
Just nearby, a few hundred miles away, there is a beautiful lake, Tadoba. It is a forest reserve, a
very big forest surrounding the lake with only one government resthouse. I used to go there
many times. Whenever I was passing by, I would stay in that resthouse for at least a day or two.
It was so lonely, so utterly silent, and the forest is full of thousands of deer.