... those are the few people who have brought you to civilization, to culture; you owe all your consciousness and growth to that small group of people. Socrates was misunderstood. We do not know the people who misunderstood him. We do not know the judges who pronounced his death sentence; they have all been forgotten. But Socrates' name will remain till the last human being remains on the earth, for the...

... simply a confusion that there are more people who misunderstand me than people who love me and understand. It is just that lovers are always silent; they need not say anything. Slowly the noise of the negativity will die and slowly the truth is going to win. If what I am saying is true, then there is no need to be worried; it is going to win. If I am saying something which is untrue, then too there is...

...." Buddha said, "But you don't need me." He said, "That is true - I don't need you, but you are the man who has brought me to this state: that I don't need you. My gratefulness is such that I would like to live and die sitting at your feet." Yes, there is a relationship of need, but there is a greater relationship of gratitude. So I can say to you that you can manage to drop...

... have been very simple to teach, but because it is a knack you have to try. Slowly you get it. How do you learn to swim? It is not an art. If it was an art you could have learned it in your bedroom. Just on your bed you could have done all the exercises that are prescribed in the book. But it is not an art; you have to go to water. And you will have to face death a few times, but that is part of the...

... progress. Each time you face death, each time you learn something - the knack slowly comes to you. Within two or three days you will be able to swim. One Japanese professor of psychology is trying to teach six-month-old children to swim, and he has succeeded. Then he tried with three-month-old children, and he has succeeded. Now he is trying with the newly born, and I hope that he succeeds. There is...

..., months after. Perhaps he wanted to die in the same peaceful silent atmosphere that he had found around me. I feel sad for him, sorry for him, that what he could have attained himself he unnecessarily depended on somebody else for. Meditation is something that is your birthright. Claim it! Make it a decision, a commitment that whatever happens, you will not die before you have attained to a meditative...

... state. It is only a question of a firm determination. And if you can attain to meditation, your life will become real life, and your death will become a door to the divine. It will no longer be a death, it will no longer be an end. It will just be freedom from the body and entering into the universal, unlimited, infinite. Okay? Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... OUTSIDE WREAK CALAMITY, IT CAN STILL BE REMEDIED," BUT THIS RELIANCE ON INTELLECTUAL DISCRIMINATION AMOUNTS TO "WHEN ONE'S OWN FAMILY CREATES DISASTER, IT CANNOT BE AVERTED." THIS IS WHAT YUNG CHIA MEANT WHEN HE SAID, "THE LOSS OF THE WEALTH OF THE DHARMA, AND THE DEMISE OF VIRTUE, ALL STEM FROM MIND'S DISCRIMINATING INTELLECT." THE MIND'S CONCEPTUAL DISCRIMINATION THE...

... to continue watching my mind. "Perhaps Gurdjieff is right, and perhaps the Eastern mystics are right. And this is the right time for me. If I can get away from the mind into myself, into my witnessing, into my watching -- what they call no-mind -- perhaps I will go from life not feeling that I lived meaninglessly." After just ten days he died. But before his death, he dictated to his...

... secretary a small statement to be delivered to George Gurdjieff and to Ouspensky. He said, "I am dying with great gratitude -- you showed me the way. Now death does not matter, now nothing matters. I have tasted something of the beyond, of the eternal. Mind was the barrier. I was thinking mind is all that we have, but I never thought that mind is just an instrument, like any other instrument."...

... man a longer life, to keep him young until his death. Now he has prepared a small ceramic paper, with a very small dose of radiation coming out of it. He thinks that keeping that in your room will be enough for you to remain healthy and younger! I have always been saying that energy is neutral: that which can destroy, can also create; we just have to discover how it destroys and how it creates. This...

... much power. Perhaps the mystics who have always been talking about power were talking about the power that they were feeling inside themselves. It has nothing to do with dominating anybody. Their power has been used as compassion, their power has been used for showering flowers over others. Their power has not ever been used for any destructive purpose, in the service of death. But the word 'power...

... AVERTED." He is giving good advice, but he has no experience. I am so certain that he has no experience because so many sentences, so many sutras, give clear-cut indications of ignorance. THIS IS WHAT YUNG CHIA MEANT WHEN HE SAID, "THE LOSS OF THE WEALTH OF THE DHARMA AND THE DEMISE OF VIRTUE ALL STEM FROM MIND'S DISCRIMINATING INTELLECT." What he is saying is right, but he himself is not...

... the right person to say it. All his understanding is based on intellect. The statement of Yung Chia is absolutely right: "THE LOSS OF THE WEALTH OF THE DHARMA AND THE DEMISE OF VIRTUE ALL STEM FROM MIND'S DISCRIMINATING INTELLECT." Yung Chia was an enlightened master. He is saying that because of the mind, the world has become irreligious; because of the mind, all that is great has...

... something." And he turned to the disciples, and said, "Look, this is the arrow of a man who is always hesitant, wishy-washy -- to die or not to die? Because of this either/or situation, he always falls short; he never hits the bull's-eye." The people became silent -- "He is right." He pulled out the third arrow, and the stall keeper was also silent -- "This man has some ideas...

...: "Osho, no more! You make us afraid of nothingness and death." Prageet is very afraid. Vidya is very afraid, and many more. Why? You don't want to get rid of fear? If you want to get rid of fear you will have to understand fear. You want to avoid the fact that the fear is there, the fear of death is there. Now Prageet, on the surface, looks a strong man - a Rolfer - but deep down he's very...

... much afraid of death; he is one of the most afraid persons around here. Maybe that's why on the surface he has taken the stance of strength, power, a bully. That's what a Rolfer is! I have heard that recently the devil in hell is appointing Rolfers: they torture people for their own sakes, and they torture very technically. If you are afraid inside, you will have to create something strong around you...

... always remain unknown to me. And how am I going to know who I am if I go on avoiding parts? I will not understand fear, I will not understand death, I will not understand anger, I will not understand my hatred, I will not understand my jealousy, I will not understand this and that..." Then how are you going to know yourself? All these things are you! This is your being. You have to go into...

... gentlemanly - and he was! God asked him, "What is your desire? What do you want?" The Englishman said, "We don't have any desire. Fulfill the desires of both of these simultaneously, and our desire is fulfilled!" But this is how man has existed, down the ages: much more interested in destruction, destroying the other, than in living oneself, than in enjoying life. Man seems to be death...

...-obsessed: wherever man moves he brings death, destruction. This neurotic society exists because individuals are neurotic. This world is ugly because you are ugly! You contribute your ugliness to this world. And everybody goes on pooling ugliness, neuroses, and the world becomes more and more a hell. You need not go anywhere else; this is the only hell there is. But you can come out of it. By...

... the very, very rich people who have lost their hunger: they don't enjoy their food, they cannot. It is the intensity of hunger that brings joy. That's why once you have eaten, for six, seven, eight hours you have to fast to enjoy food again. Existence is dialectical: darkness/light, life/death, summer/winter, youth/old age - they all go together. You ask: "What is the point of the physical...

... young light-haired man get into a red convertible. "There he is!" he said, and grabbed the refrigerator and rolled it to the window and pushed it out. He crushed the fellow in the car and died of a heart attack himself. Saint Peter: "What happened to you, young man?" Young man: "I got crushed to death by a fridge." Saint Peter: "And you?" Salesman: "While...

... pushing a fridge through a window I died of a heart attack." Saint Peter to the third man: "What did you die of?" Third man: "Well, I was sitting in this fridge, minding my own business, and..." Life is very accidental. One never knows from where the fridge will come. Somebody may be sitting in it, minding his own business... That's why I say become a sannyasin: this is the only...

... will have to. There is no other alternative. It is a very strange situation: if they don't choose me, if they don't choose the transformation I am talking about, then they are choosing death for all humanity and all life. It is not a question of choosing between two ideologies. It is not a question of choosing between my philosophy and Karl Marx's philosophy or Bertrand Russell's philosophy. It is...

... not a philosophical question. The question is existential. On the other side, if man decides not to listen to me, not to change, then he decides for committing suicide. That's why I say they will have to listen, they will have to understand, and they will have to go through the transformation, because nobody is ready to choose an ultimate death for all life. If it was a question of choosing between...

... two ideologies, it is just intellectual gymnastics. That's why they are so much afraid of me. Slowly, slowly, the intelligent people around the world are becoming aware that it is necessary to do something so that man is saved, or be ready to die. And what I am proposing is the only alternative; no other alternative is proposed anywhere. There is no other possibility. Man has looked into all the...

.... You have to become discontinuous with the past, and that discontinuity with the past will bring the transformation. You have not to do anything else. Just as the snake slips out of his old skin, leaving it aside completely -- he does not even look back -- man has to slip out of his past, not even looking back. It is difficult, but not as difficult as death for all of life. The past is heavy, the...

... past is deep rooted, but life and desire to live is far stronger. So on the one hand is the whole range of many alternatives, but all life-denying. If you choose them, then you are choosing death. I am the only person here who is life-affirmative, who does not want to reject anything from life, who accepts life as it is, with no grudge, no complaint, with no desire that it should have been better...

... -- who relishes it as it is. And there are no other life-affirmative ideologies around. So on the one hand there are many ideologies which are life-denying, life-negative. All those ideologies have led man to this point, where he is facing a total death of the planet. I am against all those ideologies for the simple reason that I affirm life and I say that if you go deeper into your desire for life...

..., you will find the eternal source of life. And if you choose life instead of death, then you will have to change all your other ideologies -- political, social, religious -- because they are all life-denying. They are complementary to each other. Choosing me you have to drop your whole past; that is the fear. But there is no other way. It has never happened before that you had to choose a certain way...

...- violence, but that does not mean that I will allow my people to be killed. At least they should die with dignity; they should not be just killed like dumb animals. So while the whole world remains organizational, the commune will be an organism inside, but for the outside world it will certainly maintain a tough face. We are not going to harm anybody on our own, but we are not going to allow anybody to...

.... If we cannot protect life, then we will rejoice in death -- but we will do something! And I'm not against doing something, just the quality has to be totally different. Q: BHAGWAN, ARE YOU NO GURU AT ALL OR ARE YOU THE RICH MAN'S GURU? A: From my side, I am no guru at all. The word guru has become almost condemnatory. The root meaning of the word is beautiful. The word originally means one who is...

.... There have been cases.... One girl jumped from a seven-storey building because she felt that she could not die, death was impossible. She felt that she could fly, and she felt that there were no barriers, there was no fear. She jumped out of a seven-storey building and died, shattered. But in her mind, under the influence of the drug, there was no limitation, no death. Expansion of consciousness has...

..., reached the rostrum and said to the public - he was looking a little flustered - he said, 'Forgive me for shortening my speech a little, but the fact is that my house is on fire.' And that fact is everybody's fact. Your house is also on fire, but you don't even seem a little flustered. Everybody's house is on fire, but you are not aware - not aware of death, not aware that your life is just passing...

... worried about the over-population. This is how our minds are functioning: we always think there is no hurry. These techniques we are talking about will be of no use if your mind thinks there is no hurry. Then you can go on postponing and death will come first. That day will not come when you think there is a hurry, when you think that now the moment has come. You can go on postponing. This is what we...

... have been doing with our lives. You have to be decisive to do something. You are in a crisis - the house is on fire. Life is always on fire because death is always there hidden behind it; any moment and you may not be any more. And you cannot argue with death. You cannot do anything. When death happens, it happens. Time is very short. Even if you live for seventy years or for a hundred years, it is...

... is not understanding. Acquaintance will not force you to actions. It will not force you to any change. It will not force you to do something about it. You will gather it in the mind; it will become information. You will become more knowledgeable. But at death everything stops. You go on collecting many things, never doing anything about them. They become just a burden on you. Understanding means...

... imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. Perfection means a full stop, perfection means ultimate death; then there is no way to go beyond it. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this...

... and I would like to go on committing mistakes to the very end of my last breath, because that means life. If you are capable of committing mistakes even at the very last breath you have conquered death. A Zen Master was dying... and I have a deep love for the Zen approach for the simple reason that they also rejoice in ordinariness. That's the beauty of Zen: no religion has been able to rise to such...

... heights of ordinariness. The Master was very old, nearabout eighty. He gathered his disciples and said, "Now this is my last day. I don't think I will be able to see the sunset, and the sun is setting on the horizon. I have called you all to suggest some new way to die." They were a little puzzled. They said, "What do you mean by 'new way'?" He said, "People have died in bed...

...! Have you heard of anybody dying standing upside-down, on his head, doing a SIRSHASAN, a headstand?" Everybody said, "We have not heard of such a thing, we have not even imagined such a thing, that anybody would die standing on his head!" So he said, "That will do!" The old man stood on his head, and it is said that there were all the visible signs that he was dead. But there...

... should run... His old sister lives just close by; she is a nun. She may be able to do something or suggest something. And she is even crazier than this old man!" So they ran. The sister came and shouted at her brother and said, "Look, your whole life you have been a trouble! At least die peacefully, don't make much fuss about it! And why are you driving these poor disciples crazy? Get up and...

... lie down on the bed!" The old man laughed, got up and lay down on the bed, and he said, "Who has brought this crazy sister of mine here? She won't even let me die in an improper way!" But he said, "Okay, you be happy. This is your last desire, and I have never followed any advice of yours. At least this much I can do before I depart." But the woman did not stay there to see...

... him depart. She said, "You just lie down there. I am going. And die on the bed in a proper way. No more trouble." And she left, and the old man died in the bed in a proper way. This is how life should be lived. I am not a saint, I am not a sage. All those hocus-pocus words don't mean anything to me. I am certainly a little bit crazy, but it is because of my craziness that you can rely on...

... business -- which is nothing -- and I keep the women going round and round. And they have so many problems, they can afford to forget all about me! And you say: YOU HAVE PUT MORE WOMEN IN CHARGE THAN IS REALLY POSSIBLE... No, you don't know the limit. Even the sky is not the limit! When the new commune happens you will see: I will put so many women in charge that even if I die it will take you years to...

... synchronicity. All the past communes had to die because they depended only on men; they never took any care of the women. And no woman has ever been able to create a commune because she does not aspire to the stars. A commune means an aspiration, a longing, a tremendous longing to grow, an immense urge to explore. No woman can find reasons to put down the foundation stone for a commune. Man is always...

... moment, within three hours, they could destroy my people. Of course, in a way it is calming us down. If you are not here, there will be calm. It has been calm here in this place for many decades, but that calmness was death. There was only one house, and there was only one family to look after this big place. It is one hundred and twenty-six square miles - three times bigger than New York. Of course it...

... reach the female egg. Sometimes it happens, two reach at the same time - that's why twins are born. Once the female egg opens and receives a male cell, it closes, and all those millions - those progressive people - simply die. If your lovemaking is counted, you have been murdering millions of people your whole life. And don't think that the celibate monks are not murdering. Their cells die in...

... religion. The body goes on doing its function. It is programmed by nature, not by any priest - it will go on creating new blood cells, it will go on creating new semen cells, it will go on creating everything that the body needs. But when new living semen cells are created, the old have to die and vacate the place. The new ones have come - the new generation has come and the old generation has to go...

... Judea that when he reaches God, soon after they will all follow him.... He never defined how long this "soon" is. Two thousand years have passed; the "soon" is still there. Jim Jones carried the logic to its very end. He said, "Why should I wait there and and you wait here? You die with me, so we all go together." He convinced those retarded people to commit suicide...

... retarded people can be convinced to die for a country. What is a country? Where is Palestine? And for Palestine people have been dying. Countries exist only on the map; the earth is one. That's why I say Rajneeshpuram is not in America, not in Oregon. This whole earth is ours. Rajneeshpuram is the capital of the whole world. We don't believe in nations. It is idiotic - what is the need of all these...

... now it has been in the service of death. Man can live forever on this earth; there is no need to search for an eternal home beyond death - that is just a consolation for you. But if you can be as blissful as they have been depicting people in paradise, naturally you won't take any interest in their bibles, in their korans and gitas. You will not go to confess your sins, because there is no sin...

... can you? However hard you may wish, it is not going to happen; otherwise nobody will be old; everyone will become young again and again - who wants to die? And to avoid death, the best way is to remain young. So whenever you feel that you are becoming old, just go backwards, just a few miles back, and be young again. But in time, there is no possibility of going back; you always go ahead. Once you...

... TO THE WIND AND ARE SCATTERED. BRIEF WERE MY DAYS AMONG YOU, AND BRIEFER STILL THE WORDS I HAVE SPOKEN. BUT SHOULD MY VOICE FADE IN YOUR EARS, AND MY LOVE VANISH IN YOUR MEMORY, THEN I WILL COME AGAIN, AND WITH A RICHER HEART AND LIPS MORE YIELDING TO THE SPIRIT WILL I SPEAK. YEA, I SHALL RETURN WITH THE TIDE, AND THOUGH DEATH MAY HIDE ME, AND THE GREATER SILENCE ENFOLD ME, YET AGAIN WILL I SEEK...

... Blessed One is one who has become a door to the beyond, to the unknown secrets and mysteries. And unless you become a seeker, you will go on breathing, vegetating, and you will die without even becoming aware of what this life was all about. One great woman of this century, a poet of the highest rank, Gertrude Stein, was dying. And her friends had gathered because the doctors had said it was only a...

.... But you went on missing, because you never allowed your heart to be receptive. They were showering seeds on you, but unless you receive them, their showering is not of much use. Jesus used to say again and again, "When a gardener sows seeds, some seeds fall on rocks - they will never grow. Some seeds fall on the path where people walk; they will grow, but they will die, because people are...

... is bound to be taken away; today, or tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; death will come, and all that you have will be taken away. Only that which is yours - which you had brought with you, with your birth - will be left with you in your death. But the whole life of seventy or eighty years has been futile. You could have grown, matured, become centered, become what you are in your potentiality...

... different, but the essential message will be the same. AND THOUGH DEATH MAY HIDE ME, AND THE GREATER SILENCE ENFOLD ME, YET AGAIN WILL I SEEK YOUR UNDERSTANDING. AND NOT IN VAIN WILL I SEEK. IF AUGHT I HAVE SAID IS TRUTH, THAT TRUTH SHALL REVEAL ITSELF IN A CLEARER VOICE, AND IN WORDS MORE KIN TO YOUR THOUGHTS. Times change. Now one cannot speak the way Buddha spoke - he would be out-of-date. Neither can...

... so tremendous, she fell down in a coma. She did not die, but after a few hours she came back to consciousness with a strange phenomenon: her eyes had become X-ray eyes. Now she is suffering from a tremendous migraine... but doctors are using her in the hospital as an X-ray machine. She has opened a new dimension. Because of too much electricity the eyes have changed. Now they can see deep down...

... is not going to evolve, grow. Yes, he will become aged, old, but he will not become more intelligent, he will not become more aware, he will not become enlightened. In that sense all the animals remain exactly at the point of their birth; nothing essential changes in them. Their death and their birth are horizontal -- in one line. Only man has the possibility of going vertical, upwards, not just...

... collectivities don't satisfy him: the nation, the religion, the political party... He creates his own new associations: Rotary Club, Lions Club. But all these strategies are just to avoid one thing: never to be alone. The whole life experience is of being together with people. Aloneness seems almost like a death. In a way it is a death; it is the death of the personality that you have created in the crowd...

... you are not your name -- your name was given to you. You are not your race -- what relationship has race with your consciousness? Your heart is not Hindu or Mohammedan; your being is not confined to any political boundaries of a nation; your consciousness is not part of any organization or church. Who are you? Suddenly your personality starts dispersing. This is the fear: the death of the...

... reached to aloneness have found nobody there. I really mean no body. No name, no form, but a pure presence, a pure life, nameless, formless. This is exactly the true resurrection, and it certainly needs courage. Only very courageous people have been able to accept with joy their nobodiness, their nothingness. Their nothingness is their pure being; it is a death and a resurrection both. Just today Hasya...

... crucified at least beaten, stoned to death. Only three women were left. The third was another woman who loved Jesus. It was love that remained in the last moments in the form of these three women. All those disciples must have been with Jesus just in order to get into paradise. It is always good to have good contacts, and you can't find a better contact than the contact with the only begotten son of God...

... not care about anybody, whether you are a saint or whether you are a sinner. The saint died in a posture which is not thought to be right according to Jainism. The Jaina saint, if he is really a master, must die in a lotus posture. It is significant; it means the man who is really aware will be aware of death coming. And this will be an indication that he has been ready, prepared for death to come...

...: death will find him in the exact posture described by the Jaina scriptures. But out of a hundred, ninety-nine percent of the time it is a problem. These so-called saints die in all kinds of postures. Then their followers have a difficulty, because if somebody comes to see then they will feel embarrassed that their saint has died in this posture - so they force the dead body into a lotus posture. And...

... hand or identified with the right hand. They are both my hands, and my existence is superior to both. The outer rules and the inner rules are going to create friction if you don't have the master inside you. Then naturally your left hand and right hand cannot function together in harmony - because you are dead, the master is absent. One very famous Jaina saint died a few years ago. Now, death does...

... way to be related to them. And the inner rule says, "Wife? - she is the sure door to hell!" Now there is friction... how to love hell? But people are great artists; they manage both. Deep down they know this woman is hell, and on the surface they say, "Darling, I love you. I will die without you." And they are hoping inside that somehow, if this woman dies.... But the women are...

...;This is no time to discuss it. You simply close your eyes." And he closed his eyes and started snoring. And that man said, "This swami is continually talking about being true." I said, "I think he is being true - eyes closed, snoring; what more do you want? Do you want him to die? Will you leave this place only when he dies?" This was too much. Swamiji stood and said, "I...