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... have also done the same. They are going to die, the master is inside the tent and he doesn't know! Only one remained. The water was flowing above his head and he was standing. Then Gurdjieff rushed out of his tent and brought him out of the canal; he was almost unconscious. The water had to be brought out of his body, he was just on the point of death. But when he opened his eyes he was another man...
.... The old man really died. This was a transformation. He was totally different. What happened in that moment of death? He accepted the master. He rejected his own mind and the rationalizations. He rejected his own life-lust. He rejected his own innermost biological urge to survive. He rejected everything. He said: When the master has said stop, I have stopped. Now nothing can move me. It must have...
... been very, very difficult - almost impossible. But when you do the impossible, you are transformed. Dying, he would not allow the mind to interfere. Death was there, but he accepted death rather than his own mind and judgment. He was never the same man again, nobody ever met the old man again. Then others realized that they had missed a great opportunity. The three who had jumped out of the canal...
... was just a dream to him. Death was not real to him - just an end to a long dream. And this man, the center of his being, remained beyond birth, beyond death. It is said that Buddha always remained in the seventh heaven. He never came down - only his reflection was here. And this is true! This is true for YOU also. You have never come down - only the reflection. But you have become so identified with...
... the reflection that you have forgotten. You think that you have come down. You CANNOT come down - from your being, there is no way to fall down. You can look into a river and you can see the reflection, and you can become so identified with it that you CAN think that you are underwater. You can suffer because of it; you can feel suffocated, and you can feel now you are going to die. And you are...
... Auditorium Archive Code: N.A. Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. BELOVED OSHO, ON A CERTAIN DAY, ALL THE MONKS IN NANSEN'S MONASTERY WERE INVOLVED IN PREPARATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING DAY - WHICH WAS THE ANNIVERSARY OF MA TZU'S DEATH. NANSEN SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, "TOMORROW WE WILL OFFER VEGETARIAN FOOD TO MASTER MA TZU. DO YOU THINK HE WILL COME?" NO ONE...
... MONASTERY WERE INVOLVED IN PREPARATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING DAY - WHICH WAS THE ANNIVERSARY OF MA TZU'S DEATH. NANSEN SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, "TOMORROW WE WILL OFFER VEGETARIAN FOOD TO MASTER MA TZU. DO YOU THINK HE WILL COME?" Before we go on further - this was one thing amongst many - Ma Tzu insisted on vegetarian food. In his monastery non-vegetarian food was absolutely prohibited. It takes me...
.... If meat is given to you, offered to you, you have to respectfully receive it." So now in China and Japan, all the Buddhists are non-vegetarian. Not a single Buddhist is vegetarian. And in every food shop, restaurant they make it clear that here non-vegetarian food is available which has not been especially killed - it is from animals dying on their own. Now, so many animals don't die on their...
... own. And in fact, few animals do; you will never find how they die. Have you seen a cow or a crow dying, dead? Once in a while perhaps because of electric wires... otherwise before dying, somehow they disappear. They disappear deep in forests, they disappear into mountains, to find a peaceful grave. Just nearby, there is one of the national deer parks with thousands of deer. I used to go there often...
... countries... It seems the animals have a special joy: they come into the restaurants and die on their own - spontaneously. And not a single Buddhist monk ever raises the question that, "This is absolutely absurd, this is not possible. Animals have to be hunted and killed, only then can you get non-vegetarian food." But Ma Tzu was absolutely in tune with Gautam Buddha. So when Nansen was...
... arranging in his monastery a ceremony on the anniversary of Ma Tzu's death, he said to his disciples - it is so touching - "TOMORROW WE WILL OFFER VEGETARIAN FOOD TO MASTER MA TZU. DO YOU THINK HE WILL COME?" NO ONE ANSWERED. BUT AMONG THE GROUP WAS A YOUNG MAN, A TRAVELING MONK CALLED TOZAN. HE STEPPED FORWARD AND SAID, "HE WILL WAIT FOR A COMPANION TO COME." NANSEN COMMENTED, "...
... anniversary of his death, how can he resist to come? The only problem is, if he cannot get a companion, then it will be very difficult for him to come. But he will get the companion - there are so many enlightened people dead. And with a man like Ma Tzu, when he says to someone, "Come follow me," he has to. But Nansen's own disciples remained without any answer; they missed the point. And Nansen...
... center is the door to eternity; this center is going beyond death. Get deeper into it. This is your buddha. You have to live it out in your daily life. I don't like monks. I want buddhas in every place, in every activity. I want the whole world full of buddhas. That is the only way we can transform the world into a paradise. To make it more clear, Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Relax and just be a witness of...
... going to do?" I said to him, "Remember, there is no way to avoid death. You can make every effort, and the best thing is not to go to bed. The bed is very close to the cemetery." I have heard about an old Jew who was dying, a very rich man. His four sons were discussing: "The old fellow is going to die. What to do about the funeral procession?" The youngest son said, "He...
... a witness of a strange phenomenon. When Gautam Buddha died, the brahmins, the priesthood which has been a curse to this country, destroyed everything that Buddha had created. All those beautiful roses were burnt alive. There were three categories of people: those who were enlightened simply left the country to convert the whole Far East; those who were not enlightened either suffered death or were...
... circumference, which is nothing but a circle drawn in the air. Look inwards. Always remember that the difference between life and death is not much - just a few breaths, a few heartbeats missed, and you are no more in the body. But inside, in this ephemeral circle of air is the very solid, immortal rock of the Buddha." Bodhidharma went to China to carry the message to which India had become absolutely...
... different question: I want to die." I said, "Sleep well. One day it is certain, I can guarantee you will not wake up. The best place to die is in bed. Ninety-nine percent of people die in bed. That is the most dangerous place." He said, "My God! I have been sleeping on a bed." I said, "You start sleeping on the mattress down on the floor." He said, "What is that...
...;Where are my shoes?" One son said, "Shoes? Are you going to die with your shoes on?" He said, "No. I simply want my shoes, because I am still alive enough to walk down to the cemetery! Listening to the great discussion that is going on, the cheapest way is..." But whatever you do, Shosha is right: TO WAKE, ALIVE - again - IN THIS WORLD. WHAT HAPPINESS! WINTER RAIN. Question 1...
... person than the Christian God. Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration. And you can live life in celebration only if you know there is no death. If you know that it is going to be eternal, that there is no beginning and no end, only then can you live without misery. God prohibited man from both. Without wisdom you...
... cannot attain to religious ecstasy, and without the feeling of eternal life you cannot sing and you cannot dance. When death is there every moment, and any moment you can be taken away.... They say, "Never ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." You cannot be certain about the next moment. How can you enjoy, when death is so close and follows you like a shadow? This idiot, God...
... is the most intelligent being in your whole BIBLE - the serpent - because he was showing the way of understanding. Most of your misery is caused by your misunderstanding, your ignorance, your unintelligence. Most of the misery is caused because you are continuously afraid of death - and it is there walking by your side. If these two things can be removed, celebration will come on its own. If you...
... could be aware that there is no death, wouldn't you love to sing like birds in the morning? Wouldn't you love to dance like the peacocks of my garden? If you start understanding human problems, you cannot be miserable. I have not been miserable for so long that I cannot conceive how you go on maintaining misery, you go on nourishing it. You are really strange people. What are the causes of your misery...
.... Why wait for tomorrow? Why wait for a lifetime, in which you cannot be certain of inheriting the kingdom of God after death, and for that, suffer your whole life here? I say to you, forget God and forget the kingdom of God. I give you here and now! Just be ready to drop your conditionings. You are not handicapped, you are not crippled. Every child is born a joy, a celebration, a dance, a song; but...
... is after death that you will have all the pleasure of life.... But if in God's garden all the pleasures of life are available, one thing is certain, that pleasures are not condemned. If you look at the Mohammedan concept of paradise - your word "paradise" comes from a Mohammedan word, firdaus - all kinds of pleasures are available. Beautiful women stuck at the age of sixteen for eternity...
... - his name is Falibhai. Whenever I see him I think to change his name to "Fallible-bhai." Jesus is claiming that he is infallible - and he cannot see that Judas is going to betray him. He cannot see that going to Jerusalem during that religious festival is going to death. Only on the cross does he wake up; and he shouts at God, "Have you forsaken me?" But the skies remain silent...
... the mind, there is no space for the future. And the mind is nothing but the past. We are so encumbered by the past that there is no possibility for any new thing to happen. The old has to go for the new to happen. So sannyas is a death and a rebirth. In the same moment both happen: on one side death, on another side rebirth. Prem means love, hashya means laughter - love laughter. And laughter is...
... is very close; duty is even farther away than hate because hate is warm, as warm as love, and duty is cold, as cold as death. Love breathes through laughter. When love remains playful, a fun, a joy, it grows. It can grow to infinity, but the whole way has to be travelled in laughter. And to remain in laughter many things have to be understood. First: love should be without any expectations...
... not a necessity? You were unnecessarily posing yourself? The ego falls flat; that is the second fear. And the third fear comes at the last - when you are just entering into the very nucleus of the phenomenon, are at the very centre. Suddenly you see that you are not separate; you are one with the whole. It feels like utter death. Zen people call it 'the great death'. The last fear comes, and one...
... that; it is completely balanced - negative and positive in balance. That's how existence is in balance. Life and death balance, otherwise one would have won by now. Either life would have become victorious and death would have disappeared, or death would have become victorious and life would have disappeared. But both are equal energies; there is no way for either to win - they both balance. So now...
..., and with long faces asked, "Master, your death is approaching - you have told us that. Now we must ask, where would you like us to bury you?" The old man looked up, and with a twinkle in his eye said, "Surprise me!" These are the real people, the real magicians. Even death cannot make them sad. They can make fun even of death. What a beautiful man this old Zen master must have...
... been, who could say, "Surprise me. Let me see what you do when I die. I am not leaving any instructions, I will wait and see. Do something that has never been done. Surprise me - just don't be repetitive." I don't know what happened later on, because I cannot think myself how to surprise. Whatever you do must have been done thousands of times. The old man has left his disciples in a state...
... come to know yourself. His death may become a resurrection for you. In his death you may come to know the eternal, the immortal. This is the only magic I know of: to have a taste of the eternal and to allow people to share the taste. Those who are ready and ripe, those who are mature and of age, they will immediately start growing. And those who are not yet ripe will have to wait a little. There is...
... only way to make it sane and intelligent is the way of creating a watcher in you. Then whether you are awake or asleep the watcher remains inside you, just like a small flame, continuously burning. It watches your sleep, it watches your dreams; it watches everything. Finally it watches your death too. And because it watches your death, it means you are not dying. Only that which was not you is dying...
..., THOUGH YOU PASS THROUGH COUNTLESS EONS YOU WILL STILL NOT BE ABLE TO GAIN ENLIGHTENMENT. AS YOU BRING UP THE SAYING, JUST AROUSE YOUR SPIRIT, AND SEE WHAT PRINCIPLE IT IS. CONSTANTLY TAKE THE TWO CONCERNS -- NOT KNOWING WHERE WE COME FROM AT BIRTH AND NOT KNOWING WHERE WE GO AT DEATH -- AND STICK THEM ON THE POINT OF YOUR NOSE. WHETHER EATING OR DRINKING, WHETHER IN QUIET OR NOISY PLACES, YOU SHOULD...
... MAKE SCRUPULOUS EFFORTS FROM MOMENT TO MOMENT -- ALWAYS AS IF YOU OWED SOMEONE MILLIONS WITH NO WAY OUT, YOUR HEART SORELY TROUBLED, WITH NO OPENING TO ESCAPE. SEARCHING FOR BIRTH, IT CANNOT BE FOUND; SEARCHING FOR DEATH IT CANNOT BE FOUND -- AT SUCH A MOMENT, THE ROADS OF GOOD AND EVIL ARE IMMEDIATELY CUT OFF. HAVEN'T YOU READ HOW IN THE OLD DAYS, MASTER TZU HU SAID, "THE PATRIARCH'S COMING...
... old habit ... and habits die hard -- they can overwhelm you. And if the old sleep comes in the name of tiredness, saying "You can rest now that you have already arrived; tomorrow morning you can enter into the temple. There is no hurry now" ... Up to now it was always a hurry, but because you have almost made it, you can rest, you can fall into a deep sleep ... and your sleep can take you...
... for you suddenly to discover that you have always been enlightened. Enlightenment is your nature. You are creating a hypnosis that you are deluded, that you are not enlightened. By making the effort to attain enlightenment, you are going far away. Just drop all effort. CONSTANTLY TAKE THE TWO CONCERNS -- NOT KNOWING WHERE WE COME FROM AT BIRTH AND NOT KNOWING WHERE WE GO AT DEATH -- AND STICK THEM...
... -- in utter failure -- stops functioning. Where are you coming from and where are you going? This is to stop the functioning of the mind. The mind cannot ... The mind came after your birth, so it does not know from where it is coming. And the mind goes into a coma before your death, so it never comes to know where it is going -- so birth and death both remain beyond mind. Facing such impossible...
... ... That is why Ta Hui says, AND STICK THEM ON THE POINT OF YOUR NOSE. Don't forget the concern with the koan even for a single moment. And it is also significant that he says, AND STICK THEM ON THE POINT OF YOUR NOSE. You may not be aware, but the East has been aware for thousands of years that before you die -- six months before -- you stop seeing the tip of your nose. You will know, when you stop...
... OR DRINKING, WHETHER IN QUIET OR NOISY PLACES, YOU SHOULD MAKE SCRUPULOUS EFFORTS FROM MOMENT TO MOMENT -- ALWAYS AS IF YOU OWED SOMEONE MILLIONS WITH NO WAY OUT, YOUR HEART SORELY TROUBLED, WITH NO OPENING TO ESCAPE. SEARCHING FOR BIRTH, IT CANNOT BE FOUND; SEARCHING FOR DEATH, IT CANNOT BE FOUND -- AT SUCH A MOMENT, THE ROADS OF GOOD AND EVIL ARE IMMEDIATELY CUT OFF. This same man was talking in...
... stop postponing your own transformation. Man's mind is so stupid that if there is a little possibility to postpone, then he will postpone for tomorrow -- unless he comes to a dead-end street where there is no way to go forward and he has to take an absolute about-turn. But things in the world are not visible to you. You may go on sleeping and the world may die. It is urgent that you take it seriously...
.... On another planet, if this planet is destroyed, life will continue, but it will have to begin from the very beginning -- and after four billion years you may be again a human being. It is a great risk to take. Nothing has changed in the world; everything is going exactly in the direction of death -- a little faster of course -- and the moment of total annihilation is coming very close. It all No...
... support my prayer, that you are awake. Don't fall asleep." In the middle of his prayer he came back -- and almost all were fast asleep. He woke them up and said, "Have you not heard me? I had told you, you have to remain awake. Can't you remain awake just one night? -- because I will not be here with you again. Even my death tomorrow cannot help you to remain awake?" They were very sorry...
... ways that death is approaching the earth. Because we have cut so many forests, a thick layer of carbon dioxide has gathered on top of our atmosphere, miles away from the earth, where the air ends. The layer is so thick that it has already increased the temperature more than it has ever been on the earth; and that rise of temperature is melting the ice of the north and south poles. If that ice goes on...
... function: it does not allow any sunrays which are destructive to life; it returns them. It allows only those rays which are life-giving. Because of our rockets moving towards the moon and towards Mars, we have made holes, for the first time, in the layer of ozone. Now those holes are allowing in all the rays of the sun towards the earth -- and death-rays are also included. So when I say the end is not...
... very far away, it is not like when Jesus says it -- just a device. By the end of this century, you will see all these dimensions bringing death to you. It has to be emphasized: unless you become absolutely clear about death, you are not going to concentrate your whole energy on transforming your being. People change with difficulty; they find it easier to remain as they are -- just like stones, like...
... destruction of the earth will not be your destruction. If you can die consciously, you have found the key to a higher life, to an eternal life, to a divine life. Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, WHAT IS THIS UNDERCURRENT OF GIGGLING IN MY HEART EVERY TIME I FEEL THAT YOU ARE USING THE WHOLE WORLD AS A DEVICE FOR OUR GROWTH, AND THAT YOU ARE USING US AS A DEVICE FOR THE WHOLE WORLD? WOULD YOU PLEASE COMMENT...
..., realizing the fact that they are seeing themselves in you. You have been of tremendous help to them because you come from them, you have been a fellow traveler. As far as you are concerned it is certainly a beginning, but it is also an ending; it is a death and a resurrection. One chapter is closed, another has opened. One life that you have been living is now just a memory and another life is opening its...
... doors - which you have dreamed about in thousands of ways, in thousands of lives, and for the first time the dream is becoming real. It is a beginning. And remember it; it is always a beginning. Changes will be coming, old chapters will be disappearing, new doors will be opening. And a moment comes when your sensitivity is such that each moment you die and each moment you are born. You die to the past...
... is dying." He said, "Let him die! My leg is broken. Where is that physician?" Now the manager sees that things have gone from bad to worse. People are jumping and enjoying, and the poor Rama is trying somehow to manage but Hanuman is really angry; he has forgotten completely. The curtain is dropped; the manager can see no other way. And somehow the Hanuman has to be taken behind the...
... stage: "Don't create such a scene. Have you forgotten that you are Hanuman?" He says, "Who says I am Hanuman? First my broken leg! And I don't care whether Lakshmana dies or not; let everybody die. First my leg has to be taken care of." But they say, "You have forgotten completely that you are Hanuman?" He said, "Nonsense, I have never been Hanuman, it is just a...
.... He is not ready to compromise as far as his freedom is concerned; he would rather die than to be enslaved. My whole teaching is to bring the authentic being to the surface, from the hidden corners of darkness where you have pushed it. You are enemies of yourselves; you have crippled your own being. And then you go on complaining that life is miserable - it is your doing! You have compromised, for...
...; his death is a death of fulfillment. Question 4: BELOVED OSHO, IN RAJNEESHPURAM I WAS YOUR GARDENER, AND IT WAS THE BEST AND THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND FULFILLING TIME IN MY WHOLE LIFE. NOW, SITTING HERE AT YOUR FEET, I SUDDENLY REALIZE THAT YOU ARE MY GARDENER. IS IT SO? It is so. But the realization has come a little late, because in Rajneeshpuram also I was the gardener. Think it over again. With me...
... decide in which direction he should work; otherwise they will not financially support any other kind of project -- and their only project is war. So thousands of scientists of immense intelligence, talent and genius have become just slaves of a political mechanism which exploits their intelligence in the service of war and death. Science can be of great importance if two things are added to it: one is...
... has the capacity to concentrate. Meditation requires the capacity to go beyond mind, to go into silence, to be absolutely a pure nothingness. Unless science accepts meditation as a valid method of enquiry it will remain a halfhearted search -- and because of its halfheartedness, it is dangerous. It can easily serve the purposes of death because it does not believe in consciousness, it believes in...
... providing the politicians with self-destructive nuclear weapons. He is behaving against humanity, he is behaving against the new man, the new humanity; he is behaving against his own children. He is sowing seeds of death for all. It is time that scientists should learn to discriminate: what helps life and what destroys life? Just because of their salaries and comforts... they should not go on like slaves...
... and robots working for war and a destruction which is unprecedented. The scientist has to be a revolutionary too. He has to be a spiritual seeker first, and second he has to be a revolutionary. And he has to remember not to serve death, whatsoever the cost. He has not to follow the directions of politicians. He has to decide himself what is helpful to the whole cosmos, what is helpful to the ecology...
..., what is helpful to a better life, to a more beautiful existence. And he has to condemn the politicians if they force him to work in the service of death. He has to refuse totally, everywhere -- in the Soviet Union, in America, in China, in every country all over the world. Scientists need a global association of their own which can decide what research should be taken in hand and what research should...
... his death when somebody asked him, "If you are born again, wouldn't you like to be a physicist in your new life?" he said, "Never! If I am born again, I would rather be a plumber than a physicist. Enough is enough. I have seen how I worked day in, day out to create the atomic weapons. They were for an emergency, but once they were created I had no power over them. I had created them...
... created an artificial island which will be used for industrial development. It will be floating in the ocean. Once it becomes a success, many more artificial islands... and Japan will be creating more earth than God created in those six days. There are tremendous possibilities for science. Once it no longer serves death, it can float cities in the ocean. Japan has also successfully tried to make...
..., just we have not yet been able to use those possibilities. And all the scientists are in the service of politicians, of governments - - that means in the service of death and war. A great revolution is needed. Just as scientists revolted once against religion, fought against religion, now they have to fight against politics, against nationalism. Their responsibility is great. The new man will need...
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