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Osho
... turned up, and it freaks you out to have somebody looking at you with pure white eyes! So in every culture the eyes are closed immediately after death. But everybody dies with open eyes. Nobody can die with closed eyes, because closing the lids of the eyes needs a certain willpower, a certain life energy. You cannot die with a fist, because the fist needs some life energy. You can die only with an open...
... nature, a nervous system in his earlobes. There is no other explanation. In China it is ancient lore that you cannot touch your nose with your tongue. But near to your death, you can touch it. The simple reason is that your teeth have fallen out -- it is nothing miraculous -- and so the nose and the tongue have come closer. In India a similar kind of idea has been prevalent, which is more significant...
.... Six months before your death you stop being able to see the tip of your nose because your eyes start rolling up. The moment you cannot see the tip, you can be certain that within six months you will be dead, because the eyes have started moving upwards. That's why, when somebody dies, you immediately close his eyes. Because to see him... just the white of the eyes is showing, the black part has...
... chosen. But finally, before his death, he chose Hyakujo, because he was the man who was closest to the truth. He may not be close to his heart; it does not matter. It is not a personal transmission. It is a universal phenomenon, that the lamp of enlightenment should be transmitted to whomever is closer to the ultimate truth. ON ANOTHER OCCASION A MONK ASKED MA TZU, "WHAT IS THE BUDDHA?" MA...
... to anything. I have been just a guest everywhere - even here I am simply a guest. Even my guesthouse is not within the boundaries of Rajneeshpuram. I am just an outsider, but to be an outsider and contented, fearless... because death cannot destroy me, there is nothing to be destroyed. My death has already happened thirty-two years ago; this is my posthumous existence. Any moment the body can fall...
... can take it out and put in another part. It was not the whole machine. But to be part of the whole is totally different. You are irreplaceable. The stars are within you, just as you are within the universe. The universe is within you; there is no demarcation line. And this is my whole message to you: Dissolve, be in a state of let-go. Then there is no death, then there is no fear. Then you are not...
..., feeding, giving clothes, education, sending people to learn in England, in France, in America - too long a route. They take a shortcut. They just put their sword on your neck, and they say, "Decide. You can live only as a Mohammedan, so choose between Mohammedanism and death." It is not a question of choosing between two religions, it is a question of choosing between Mohammedanism and death...
... experience. For thirty years I was traveling in India - arguing, fighting, challenging. I know that under that challenge, argument, your capacity, which ordinarily remains dormant, becomes active. Your intelligence, under the pressure of challenge, functions perfectly. It is a question of life and death. The southern hemisphere is lagging behind - poor, uneducated. And the gap is big - five thousand years...
... head, it has nothing to do with the heart. Religion is a matter absolutely concerned with your heart. Unless your heart starts beating with me, in tune, nothing is held back, you are totally and utterly harmonious with me... only then can I bring you to the vision where this whole universe is yours. Then you know there is no death, everything is eternal; nothing dies, things only change forms. Then...
... back if you don't go away? Always look at life as a dialectical process. Here, night brings the day. Here, death brings a new life. Here, sadness brings a new rejoicing. Here, emptiness brings a new fulfillment. Everything is connected together ... it is part of one organic whole. We create problems by dividing things. Learn the art - not to divide, but simply to remain alert, watchful, enjoying...
... right excuse to kill them. But they don't know they are killing their highest peaks of consciousness, their greatest sons. They are destroying their own glory. Socrates is reported to have said to the chief judge who ordered his death sentence by poison, "Remember one thing: your names will be remembered only because of me; otherwise you would have been forgotten. You will remain obliged forever...
... to the man you are sending to death because I am going to become an immortal, and your names will be remembered only because you did this stupid thing." And certainly, it is true; who would have remembered those judges? But because of Socrates, those names are remembered. Who would have remembered Pontius Pilate? It is because Jesus was ordered to be crucified by him; otherwise Judea was such...
... would cry if I died," she urged. "Die first!" said Hymie running off. Do something. Don't go on intellectualizing. Children are very clear about their perceptions. What is the point of thinking intellectually that "If I die, would you cry?" Hymie is absolutely right - "Die first! And then we will see." You have to stop thinking about these things. Thinking is not...
... reality is always growing, changing. Reality is always moving towards perfection but never becomes perfect, because to be perfect means nothing but ultimate death. Just drop the habit. The mind will try in every way to keep its old control. But you are the real master, and however much the mind tries to control, it cannot succeed if you are determined to put it into its place as a servant. Your...
...: N.A. Question 1: BELOVED OSHO, IS THE CONCEPT OF SOULMATES MORE USEFUL THAN MARRIAGE? Prem Pragyan, one of the most significant things in man"s life has been the love affair. Birth is not in your hands, death is not in your hands; and these are the only three great things in life: birth, love, and death. Only love is in your hands, only love gives you the freedom and dignity of being a human...
... being; otherwise, birth and death happen just like any other animal, or any tree. Love should be kept as pure and unpolluted as possible. You are asking, "Is the concept of soulmates more useful than marriage?" Concepts don't matter. What matters is your understanding. You can change the word "marriage" to the word "soulmates", but you are the same. You will make the same...
... last night and you will never wake up again. And each morning he would wake up as if it was a new beginning; he had accepted death in the night before, now this was a rebirth. He looks tremendously grateful towards existence: one day more to live, one day more the sun, the wind, the trees, the birds, one day more of friends, one day more of love. But not more than that. The very idea of having a...
... scientist, whether it is going to become a poet or a doctor or a philosopher or a mystic or a dancer or a musician. Its potential can be read. Its life pattern, in minute detail, can be read: whether it will be a healthy child or a sick child, whether it will die after six months or after a hundred years. To go on doing the old accidental thing and producing children, not knowing whom you are bringing...
... don't die because they don't have any life, they are already dead. Love is a very living phenomenon. In fact, life comes to its highest peak in love. Hence, there is every possibility that what has been today a great blessing, tomorrow may not be there. It is a breeze that comes and goes. We have to accept nature as it is. To create something unnatural is going to create perversions. "I locked my...
... drop the diseases, so that the future humanity can be free from all this ugliness. Don't just give it a new name, change it from the very foundations. Three young men arrived at the pearly gates together and St. Peter asked, "How did three healthy men like you die so soon?" "Well," said the first, "it happened like this: I came home from work early one day and found my wife...
... going to die should be taught meditation before death - just as people who are going to live... when they pass their examinations in the university, they should be taught meditation - how to live dancingly, joyously, beautifully, without greed, without jealousy, without anger, without hatred. Then comes another point, when a person is dying. When the doctors feel that only a few months are left, he...
... death, if they remain content with their poverty now. Naturally, the rich people have been the protectors of the priests, of the missionaries. They have made great churches and temples for God, because they have seen the point, that if religion prevails over people's minds, there is no possibility of any revolution. What you have been told up to now is charity, is simply the suicide of all those who...
... something far worse. Medical relief is good, but it is very superficial. The man of real charity will try to find out the causes that are creating so many diseases, and those causes should be removed. They can be removed! It has been found that people who eat too much live only half the normal lifespan. If they were going to live for seventy years, they will die when they are only thirty-five. But people...
... who eat less live longer than is normal. The norm may be seventy - they may live one hundred years. You don't understand a simple thing: that whatever you eat, your body has to digest... it is a great labor for your whole digestive system; and if the digestive system becomes tired, you are going to die soon; and if your digestive system remains untired and young and fresh, of course you can live...
...;This question you should ask about yourself." Each action is related with its consequence. It does not wait so long that when you die and are born again - perhaps sixty years or eighty years afterwards - you will suffer because you have done something wrong. Each wrong act brings its own suffering, and each good act brings its own reward and its own blissfulness. But people have been deceived...
... should be taught meditation as a preparation for the eternal journey he is going on. Soon he will leave the body. Before he leaves the body, he must understand, experience, that he is not the body. Then he can die joyously. Living joyously and dying joyously - if we can create this atmosphere, I call it the greatest charity. And that is what we are doing here. Whether the government accepts it or not...
... death he was hoping for a future life - but he never actually experienced any rejoicing, any meaning. But it was tolerable. It was only a question of today: it will pass, and tomorrow is bound to come. The religious prophets, messiahs, saviors were promising him all pleasures - which are condemned here - in paradise. The political leaders, the social ideologists, the utopians were promising him the...
... bypasses everything that is a door to the divine, and he ends up at the end of the road and there is nothing ahead of him except death. His whole life he was miserable. He tolerated it, ignored it in the hope that things were going to change. Now he cannot ignore it and cannot tolerate it because tomorrow there is only death and nothing else. And the whole life's accumulated misery that he has ignored...
... your depression. You need a new direction. Gautam Buddha, Mahavira, or Parshvanath - these people were at the peak of richness, and then they saw that it is almost a burden. Something else has to be found before death takes you over - and they were courageous enough to renounce all. Their renunciation has been misunderstood. They renounced it all because they did not want to bother a single second...
... only suicide or madness - or hypocrisy: you go on smiling till death finishes you, but deep down you know that you have wasted your life. In the East depression has never been a problem. The poor learned to enjoy whatsoever little they had, and the rich learned that having the whole world at your feet means nothing - you have to go in a search for meaning, not for money. And they had precedents: for...
... countries - England, France, Germany - are in favor. When chemicals are used in war, it is more dangerous and more ugly - more inhuman. For example, a bomb will not be dropped here, but chemical gas will be released into the city and whoever breathes that gas will die immediately. There are gases which will melt only your bones; you will live, but all your bones will be melted. So you will become just a...
... clear the distinction between men and Christians. Now all European countries are Christian and they are ready for chemical war. And they will go on reading, "Love your enemies, Love your neighbor," and they will continue praying in their churches... and they will prepare a chemical death for millions of people. And the initiator is a fundamentalist Christian. Ronald Reagan has been brought...
... die. Now the preparation for death is cutting off the sleep. Just as in preparation for life twenty-four hours of sleep a day was needed, now preparation for death needs almost no sleep. Relaxation is a deliberate effort to allow the body to do its work without your interference. You simply become absent; you leave the body as if it is a dead corpse - and it is needed. As human life has become more...
... OVER AND OVER AGAIN, "I WOULD RATHER DIE THAN SURRENDER." THIS EVERYDAY SELF-HYPNOSIS FOR YEARS MUST HAVE CREATED A SUBTLE ATTITUDE OF PASSIVE RESISTANCE. BEING WITH YOU I HAVE NOT HAD MUCH OPPORTUNITY TO WATCH THIS RESISTANCE BECAUSE BEING AVAILABLE TO YOU AND YOUR WORK IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS TO ME NOW. BUT MY FEAR IS: HOW DEEP HAS THIS CHILDISH DETERMINATION NOT TO SURRENDER GONE...
... will be sleeping, sixteen hours he will be sleeping. And as he becomes mature, it comes to a fixed normal routine of seven or eight hours. This will continue until he starts feeling old. This will be different with each individual, because somebody will die at seventy, somebody will die at eighty; and some fellows are so stubborn, they will die at ninety, a hundred - and there are people who have...
... in anxiety, they were not afraid of death, they were not worried about trivia. They were living each moment with totality and intensity, and because of this totality and intensity, their life became a beautiful flower -- they were full of fragrance, love and life and laughter. But this certainly hurts millions of people who are around you. They cannot accept the idea that you have achieved...
... you even beyond death. Even death cannot take away your dance, your tears of joy, your purity of aloneness, your silence, your serenity, your ecstasy. That which death cannot take away from you is the only real treasure; and that which can be taken away by anybody is not a treasure -- it is simply befooling you. How many millions of people have lived before you on this earth? You don't even know...
... death destroys your body, your mind -- because these qualities will be your sole companions. They are the only real values, and the people who attain them -- only they live; others only pretend to live. The KGB knocks on Yussell Finkelstein's door one dark night. Yussel opens the door. The KGB man barks out, "Does Yussel Finkelstein live here?" "No," replies Yussel, standing there...
... to make it so clear to you that it cannot be avoided, and that you don't have any future to invest your energy in, that you have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the explosion of light happens and you are, for the first time, absolutely yourself -- an eternal being, an immortal being, who knows nothing of death, who...
.... You should note it: not only future in this life, but after life; their whole program was to take you whole energy as a project for a future life, after death, in paradise far, far away. This strategy worked; it took away the very juice of human life. People were simply waiting to live in paradise; this place, this earth, became just like a waiting room in a station. Everybody is waiting for the...
... conditionings. This is the way to realize your ignorance. What your ignorance is finally turns out to be your innocence. It looks like a death when everything that you know and that you have been attached to is taken away. But on the other side it is a resurrection. So if you really want to wake up and if you also want to become part of the great hope for humanity and the future of man, then die to the past...
... dog of envy, the big dog of pride, the big dog of greed -- and yes, my children, I killed the big dog of sex." "Father," came a voice from the back of the church, "are you sure that last dog did not die a natural death?" You cannot change nature. If you can simply live naturally, transformations come. If they come, then sex disappears -- but not by your efforts. By your...
... ever prophesy, for if you prophesy wrong nobody will forget it, and if you prophesy right nobody will remember it. One can survive everything nowadays except death. Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil: to deny life. If you can keep calm while all those around you are freaking out, then you don't understand the problem. Inscription on the tombstone of Peter the Pessimist: I knew this would...
... situation. If I am defeated then two million people are going to die. If I win, that victory is not worth it. He decided not to fight. It was Krishna who persuaded him. The whole of SHRIMAD BHAGAVADGITA is a persuasion. Arjuna goes on arguing against war and violence, and Krishna goes on insisting, "It is your duty, it is your destiny. It is God's decision that you should fight. And this so-called...
... encouragement is needed. And a support from a commune, from friends is needed so that you are not alone; there are other people also on the same path in the same rebellion. Taglish, remember one thing. If you really want to be alive, contemporary, fresh, and you want to have a future not full of darkness and death but full of eternity and blissfulness, then you will have to take a little risk. A risk of...
... see the real needs of the people. They don't need nuclear weapons, nobody is hungry for nuclear weapons. They need houses, they need clothes, they need food, they need work. But all the money of the nation goes into the service of death and war. The politician can see that if all that power, money, intelligence, can be diverted to the real needs of life, this very earth can become a paradise. But if...
... who cares about what happens after death? One Christian monk was asking me, "What happens after life, when one dies?" I said, "Have you ever looked what is happening to you while you are alive. If you cannot see what happens to life when you are alive, forget the idea. You will not be able to see what happens to life when you are dead. Learn the art of living; and automatically you...
... will learn the art of dying. Because art of dying is simply the final lesson of art of living. Just as death is the end of life, culmination of life, it is not separate from life, it is just the highest peak of life." But religions have not been teaching people art of living. Neither they are teaching people art of dying. They are simply giving people opium. So it is not a question of America...
..., and I am ready to sacrifice all my respectability to the work. And you can see it. I have created enemies in the world; I have created friends in the world. Stronger the enemies become, stronger my friends become. You cannot have only friends, otherwise they will be just lousy; they will not be of any use. They will not be ready to do and die. Just in America when they caught me, I provoked them...
... friends and their worth remains an implement of humanity for centuries. So there is no need to be worried about the enemy. His work is to create the friend. That's all. And more fanatic he is, more staunch friends he will create. This is the dialectics of consciousness - that's how the mind functions. The enemies may sometimes think that they are doing harm. When they sentenced Socrates to death by...
... anything, even if they kill they help. It was possible that if Socrates was not given poison, and the people had ignored him, we may not have remembered him; we may have forgotten him. But his death became a mark that cannot be erased. So enemies can do no harm; even while they are thinking they are doing harm, they are serving the purpose. And the death of Socrates meant his friends became strongly...
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