OSHO The God Conspiracy - Baytallaah.com

where Eno lived, his old master, who has sent him to Seigen because his death was imminent,
and who said, "I will not be able to see your enlightenment, but you are bound to be
enlightened. Just go to Seigen."
This is the beauty of Zen, no competition at all. The whole thing is that everybody should
become enlightened. Where he becomes enlightened is not important. Who is the master who
makes him enlightened is not important. Seeing death coming, Eno said to Sekito, "You are
bound to become enlightened, but my death is very close. It is better you go to Seigen." And
Seigen was his competitor master.
Eno lived in Sokei. So when SEIGEN ASKED, "WHERE DO YOU COME FROM" SEKITO REPLIED, "I
COME FROM SOKEI."
In other words he is saying, "I am coming from Eno, your competitor master. He has sent me
here."
SEIGEN HELD UP A WHISK AND SAID, "DID YOU FIND THIS OVER THERE" SEKITO REPLIED, "NO,
NOT ONLY WAS IT NOT OVER THERE, BUT IT WAS ALSO NOT IN THE WEST LAND."
The West land, in Japan, is India -- "What you are asking me for was not in Sokei, it was not even
in India where Gautam Buddha was born and where Mahakashyapa started the Zen tradition.
What is it that was not even with Buddha or with Mahakashyapa or with Bodhidharma"
SEIGEN ASKED, "YOU REACHED THE WEST LAND, DIDN'T YOU"
TO WHICH SEKITO REPLIED, "IF I HAD REACHED, I COULD HAVE FOUND IT."
Only I was missing, otherwise it was everywhere. Because I did not go there, it was not there. He
is talking about his own being. It has been inside him, not in Sokei and not even in India. This is a
great dialogue.
He is saying, "If I had gone there, it would have been there. It is within me." But he is not directly
indicating that it is within him. That is the way of Zen dialogues. Nothing direct, everything very
indirect, and you have to catch the knack of following the indirect indications of what they
mean.