What is the meaning of the dialogue between the monk and Tozan regarding cold and heat?

Beloved Osho, a monk said to tozan, "cold and heat descend upon us. How can we avoid them?" tozan said, "why don't you go where there is no cold or heat?" the monk said, "where is the place where there is no cold or heat?" tozan said, "when cold, let it be so cold that it kills you; when hot, let it be so hot that it kills you."

I have told my sannyasins there to go with my robe, my note and message. The chief of the sect presented my robe and my message to the whole gathering with deep love and devotion. He has informed me that he will be coming here soon to visit me and to see my people. In fact this is the only alive Zen assembly. In those one million people and two hundred fifty government representatives, not a single person knows exactly the space that you are feeling every day. One anecdote about Tozan: <q>WHEN TOZAN WAS WITH NANSEN, another great master, ONE OF BASO'S DISCIPLES... Baso is the ultimate as far as Zen is concerned. NANSEN OBSERVED THE ANNIVERSARY OF BASO'S DEATH AND SAID TO THE ASSEMBLY, "WILL BASO COME BACK TO US?" TOZAN SAID, "IF THERE IS COMPANY FIT FOR HIM, HE WILL!" NANSEN APPRECIATED THE ANSWER VERY MUCH.</q> ...…

Question: Osho, Two monks were arguing about a flag. Osho, what is the meaning of this Zen anecdote? If you are agitated, troubled, restless, pained, there is only one reason: you have identified yourself with the circumference. You are standing where all storms arrive—winds shake you, fires burn you, pleasures and pains surround you, praise and blame touch you. And standing there you are trying to bring about the moment when blame will not bother you, praise will not intoxicate you; pleasure will not drive you mad, pain will not bring tears. If you stand on the periphery and try this there, you will fail. For countless lives you have stood at the periphery and gone on failing. Whoever stands there will be touched by the winds. When pleasures come you will be happy; when pains come you will be unhappy.

Osho, when you talk about our having to suffer, you tell us to be joyful at the same time. Trying to compromise these two things seems difficult.

When I say suffer joyfully it looks paradoxical and your mind starts thinking how to compromise both, because to you they are contradictory. They are not, they only appear contradictory. You can enjoy suffering. What is the secret- how to enjoy suffering? The first thing is: if you don't escape, if you allow the suffering to be there, if you are ready to face it, if you are not trying somehow to forget it, then you are different. Suffering is there but just around you; it is not in the center, it is on the periphery. It is impossible for suffering to be in the center; it is not in the nature of things. It is always on the periphery and you are the center. So when you allow it to happen, when you don't escape, you don't run, you are not in a panic, suddenly you become aware that…

Beloved Osho, once, a monk asked joshu, "what is the body without illness?" joshu said, "the body made of the four elements and five skandhas."

ON ANOTHER OCCASION, UMMON ASKED A MONK, "WHAT ARE YOU?" HE REPLIED, "I'M THE HEAD OF THE INFIRMARY." "YOU DON'T MEAN TO SAY SO!" SAID UMMON. "IS THERE ANYBODY NOT ILL?" "I DON'T UNDERSTAND," REPLIED THE MONK. "WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND?" ASKED UMMON. THE MONK WAS SILENT, AND THEN UMMON SAID "ASK ME THE SAME QUESTION." SO THE MONK ASKED UMMON, "WHO IS THE MAN WITHOUT ANY ILLNESS?" UMMON POINTED TO THE NEXT MONK. ONCE THERE WAS A MONK ILL IN THE INFIRMARY WHO ASKED TO SEE TOZAN. WHEN TOZAN WENT THERE THE MONK SAID TO HIM, "WHY DON'T YOU SAVE ORDINARY PEOPLE?" TOZAN ASKED HIM, "WHO IS YOUR FAMILY?" THE MONK REPLIED, "A GREAT ICCHANTIKA FAMILY." TOZAN REMAINED SILENT FOR SOME TIME. THEN THE MONK SAID, "WHAT SHALL WE DO WHEN THE FOUR MOUNTAINS COME PRESSING ROUND US?" TOZAN SAID, "I MYSELF CAME FROM UNDER THE ROOF OF A…

When energy goes inward it turns into thoughts, feelings, emotions, and when energy goes outward it turns into relationships with beings and nature. But when energy does not move inward or outward, it is just there pulsating, vibrating. Then it is one with the existence, one with the whole. Is this zazen?

Exactly. When the energy is just there -- not going anywhere, just pulsating at the original source, just radiating its light there, blossoming like a lotus, neither going out nor going in -- it is simply here and now. When I say go inward, I am simply saying don't go on moving in the head. The whole society forces your energy to move in the head. All education consists of the basic technique of how to pulsate the energy only in the head -- how to make you a great mathematician, how to make you a great physician. All the education in the world consists of taking the energy into the head. Zen asks you to come out of the head and go to the basic source -- from where the educational system around the world has been taking the energy, putting it into the head, and turning it into…