... is simply waiting to die, he is committing a slow suicide. That's why my ashram is going to be misunderstood. This will look like the Ashram of a Charvaka, this will look like the garden of Epicurus. The Western man has loved - there is laughter and there is dancing and there is song - but the Western man has lost ALL idea of who he is. He has lost track of consciousness, he is not aware. He has...

... also, because Tantra is complementary to Yoga. Remember, this is one of my basic insights: that in life there are no contradictions. All contradictions are complementaries. Night is complementary to the day, so is summer to winter, so is death to life. They are not against each other. There is nothing against, because there is only one energy, it is one God. My left hand and my right hand are not...

... is a great need, just as food is a need. Food is a lower need, love is a higher need, a much higher-order value. Now psychologists have been doing much research work on children who were brought up without any love. Almost fifty percent of children die if they are brought up without love; within two years they die. They are given good food, nourishment, every scientific care, but mechanically. The...

... nurse comes, gives them a bath, feeds them; every care is taken, but no human love. The nurse will not hug them close to her heart. The nurse will not give her warm body to the child; warmth is not given. Within two years fifty percent of those children die. And this is strange, because there is no visible reason why they die. They were perfectly healthy, the body was going perfectly well, they were...

... not ill or anything, but suddenly, for no reason at all, they start dying. And the remaining fifty percent are in more trouble than those who die. Those who die are more intelligent. Those who survive become neurotic, schizophrenic, psychotic, because no love has showered on them. Love makes you one piece. It is like glue - it glues you together. They start falling into fragments. There is nothing...

... up, bored. Then either you become a martyr - remain with it, suffer it, wait for death to deliver you - or you start indulging with other women. But whatsoever you have done with THIS woman will be done with the other, and you will get fed up with the other, and with the other, and your whole life will be just changing partners. That is not going to satisfy either. Unless you learn the secret art...

... him a good beating. He needs it, he deserves it. He had come to find out what was going on here - particularly about sex. And when he found Sheela alone - she was taking him around - he came close, perspiring, and asked, "Can I kiss you?" Now this man is sent here to inquire about what is happening here. Remember it: next time you find a government official here, give him a kiss of death...

... fear will be there in your being. You will go on trembling, because unless you attain to love you cannot know that you are deathless. Fear will be there. One who loves deeply becomes deathless. One who loves deeply goes beyond death. One who knows love knows also that death does not exist. Because in deep love you come to know death. You die! And you resurrect. The cross and resurrection both happen...

.... You never move to that depth from where return is not possible. You stretch out your hand, but you are always ready to take it back any moment if danger comes. That's why your love remains superficial. Love is a death, death of the ego. And when you die only then you know that you cannot die, that something in you transcends death. THROUGH LOVE, ONE HAS NO FEAR; THROUGH NOT DOING TOO MUCH ONE HAS...

...: Sacrifice the present for the future. Sacrifice this moment for the next. Sacrifice yourself for something else. This is reasonableness - to postpone life. Heart says: Live now. That's what Lao Tzu says - Live now. In fact there is no other way of living. Either you live now, or you just pretend to live. You never live, you just postpone. You only die, you never live. Because to live there is no other...

... back that one-thousand-rupee advance, and until he pays that he has to remain in the coal mine. People have suffered their whole lives in a strange, tricky slavery. Now, nobody can directly call them slaves, but the fact is they are bonded laborers; they will die, they will never get the money to pay the advance. The advance is given just the same way as in the past human beings were auctioned. You...

... society. You can see it in India: five hundred million people are living in starvation at this very moment. And those who understand how an increasing population is going to create more poverty, they all predict unanimously that by the end of this century half the country will die because of starvation: one man amongst two. You will be surrounded in this country with corpses; you won't have enough wood...

... against birth control methods. There is not a single religious leader who is in favor of birth control methods. These religious leaders will be responsible for the death of millions of people! But why are they against birth control methods? They say, "It is God who is giving you a child. To refuse it is against God." But to allow it to starve...? God seems to be a monster. He rejoices in...

... Heine has written many beautiful poems about the moon, but that night, after three days of hunger and tiredness and being afraid of death any moment, sitting in a tree he saw in the sky not a moon, but a loaf of bread. He could not believe his eyes. He rubbed his eyes, he looked again: it was a loaf of bread floating in the sky. When he was found by a search party and brought back, he wrote in his...

... least, make peace with God." The old man said, "I have never quarreled with him in the first place. I have never gone to the synagogue, you know it well!" The rabbi said, "You have always been strange. At this moment of death, pray to God!" He said, "I am praying. I am praying that 'It is enough! We have been tortured enough because you have chosen us! Now choose somebody...

... intelligence, without any fear of death, because you know your eternity, because you know your very center. A new series begins today: ONE SEED MAKES THE WHOLE EARTH GREEN. Maneesha has asked: OUR BELOVED MASTER, ONE DAY, WHEN MASTER RINZAI WENT TO HO-FU, THE GOVERNOR ASKED HIM TO TAKE THE HIGH SEAT. There have been men of intelligence even in such strange positions as governor. The governor asked Rinzai to...

... mind in it. When you die, your physical body and your physical mind are left behind. But the astral body travels with you, with the mind, with all the remembrances of the past life and the body, remembering all the scars and the wounds that have happened to the physical body. This abstract phenomenon travels with you; hiding within it is your ultimate, existential center. Until you know the center...

... another womb, and repeating the same things again and again and again. That's why in the East they call it the life and death cycle. To jump out of this cycle is the whole purpose of meditation -- to come out of this continuum, which has been just a deep anguish, anxiety and angst, and to disappear into the blue sky. This disappearance is not your death. This disappearance makes you one with the whole...

... the greatest day of your life. The continuum of your birth and death will disappear. You will be enlightened. And when you will drop this body, this mind... with this body and this mind you will also drop your astral bodies, your inner mind. You will become just a dewdrop -- either disappearing in the ocean, or the ocean disappearing in the dewdrop. This is the ultimate peak of human evolution. The...

... death. Help him to die peacefully, silently, meditatively, with gratitude." Only in the East has it been possible to prepare even for death. People don't prepare even for life. They come to know that they were alive only when they are dying or perhaps dead. Then suddenly a shock comes to them: "My God! What has happened? I was alive and now I am no more alive. Those eighty years, ninety...

... own nose. Within exactly six months he is going to die. That is an ancient, perhaps a ten-thousand-year-old discovery of ayurveda. When the ayurvedic physician comes to see if the patient is in the last stage, the first thing he wants to know is, "Please, can you see the tip of your nose?" Now, any allopathic doctor seeing this will think this is stupid: "What has seeing the tip of...

... the nose to do with his death? He is dying and you are joking, kidding? What are you doing?" The doctor is not aware of a strange phenomenon: that the eyes slowly stop turning downwards. When the man dies, they turn completely upwards. If you see a dead man you will see his eyes are completely upturned; you will see only the whites of the eyes. That's why in all traditions, all over the world...

..., the dead man's eyes are closed immediately - because he may freak out many people who see his eyes. Just the whites are visible; the black has turned up. It must have been this experience that gave the idea, ten thousand years ago, that if the eyes ultimately, in death, turn completely upwards, they must start turning up some time before that - because life is always a process; nothing happens...

... or not - he does not bother about that. His kingdom, his chiefhood, depends on how many ladies he has got. It is from the monkeys that Sigmund Freud got the idea that sometime a younger generation must have killed some old man who was possessing all the beautiful ladies. The younger people were getting, of course, angry: "It is time for this man to die!" But he was not dying, and he was...

... guidelines given from nature, no map to follow. He is just left as pure existence. He has to work out everything on his own. Life is every moment a challenge, so every moment he has to choose. Whenever he has to choose there is anxiety - but anxiety is particular. Anguish is a general state of the human being. He is in anguish from birth to death because he has no way of knowing what his destiny is, where...

... don't want to be your anxiety, I want you to feel anguish. Your death is close, you are getting too old; now is not the time for anxiety. Anxieties are for young people who are choosing alternatives, this and that. But for you... before death comes solve your basic problem." Anguish is, in short, the quest of who you are. One of India's greatest seers of this age, Raman Maharishi, had only one...

..., for compassion, for celebration. The nonmeditative person is disconnected from his own source of energy; he is not in contact with the ocean. He has a little bit of energy that is created by food, by air, by matter -- he lives on physical energy. Physical energy has limitations. It is born at a certain moment in time, and it dies at another moment in time. Between birth and death it exists. It is...

... like a lamp that burns because of the oil in it -- once the oil is exhausted, the flame goes out. The meditative person comes to know something of the infinite, becomes bridged with the inexhaustible source of energy. His flame goes on and on, his flame knows no cessation. It cannot disappear, because in the first place it never appears. It cannot die, because it is unborn. How to bridge oneself with...

... something you don't devote your whole life to it. But if you hate totally, then it becomes a life-and-death problem. Persecuting Christians, destroying Christians, destroying their power-holds, arguing with Christians, convincing them that this was nonsense, that this man Jesus was mad, a neurotic, a pretender, a hypocrite, one day it happened, the miracle happened. He was going to persecute more...

... in a dilemma; they don't know what they are doing. Life cannot exist without death. Then why hate death? Because it is death that creates the space for life to exist. This is a great insight, that death is the contrast, the background, the blackboard on which life is written with white chalk. Death is the darkness of night on which life starts twinkling like stars. If you destroy the darkness of...

... witness then suffering loses all thorns, all stings. Then there is suffering, and you are a witness to it. You are just a mirror; it has nothing to do with you. Happiness comes and goes, unhappiness comes and goes, it is a passing show; you are just there, a mirror reflecting it. Life comes and goes, death comes and goes; the mirror is not affected by either. The mirror reflects but remains unaffected...

... is empty, death is empty, all phenomena are empty -- because nothing abides, everything passes by, all is dream stuff. If this is understood, this will protect you. How can you be insulted if all is empty? How can you be miserable if all is empty? How can there be pain if all is empty? You are empty, the other is empty, so you must have seen a dream that the other was insulting you, that the other...

... of because they are so near death - at any moment they can die. In the beginning it makes them afraid; they tremble in fear. But you cannot continue trembling and fearing every day, continuously. One becomes accustomed, one accepts death - then the fear disappears. And when death is so near and with any wrong movement you may be dead immediately, the doer is forgotten, and only duty remains, only...

... movement, we say there must be someone who has moved - the mover. We cannot conceive of movement alone. But have you ever see the mover? Have you ever seen the one who laugh? Buddha says there is life, the process of life, but no one inside who is alive. And then there is death, but no one dying. For Buddha you are not a duality - the language creates a duality. I am speaking, there is no one who is...

... businessman has ever been heard to attain to that peak. He lives in such security that he can afford to be dual. Whatsoever he is doing, it is never total. Profit cannot be a total activity. You can enjoy it, but it is never a life-and-death problem. You can play with it, but nothing is at stake. It is a game. A business is playing a game, the game of money. The game is not very dangerous so businessmen...

... - meditate on this whole growth. Then you become old, then you die. From the very beginning, imagine the very moment when your father and mother conceived you, and into the womb of the mother you came. Just the first cell. From there look to the very end, where your body is burning on a funeral pyre and all your relative are standing around you. Then put both aside - the one who was born and the one who...

... has died. Just put both aside and then look within. There you are - that which is never born and which is never going to die. ... knowing and not-knowing, existing and not-existing. Then leave both aside that you may be. You can do it with any positive-negative polarity. You are sitting here. I look at you. I know you. When I close my eyes, you are no longer there, I don't know you. Then put aside...

... you can enter it. The door is open. The invitation is for all, all and everyone. But courage is needed; courage to be alone, courage to be empty, courage to dissolve and melt, courage to die. And if you can die within to your inner space, you will attain to the life which never dies, you will attain to AMRIT, to immortality. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... percent life and one percent death. When you die, you will be ninety-nine percent death and one percent life. You will be surprised by my statement, that I am saying "one percent life." Yes, because even in the grave your hair will go on growing, your nails will go on growing. You will not shave your beard anymore, it will start growing. You will become a hippy in the grave. That is why I say...

... government simply watches. And if you drop all birth control methods this country will become such a huge burden. You will not be able to feed them, you will not be able to give them clothes, you will not be able to give them shelter. It will be simply chaos and death. If you insist on your ancient heritage, you are driving the country not towards the twenty-first century, but towards its graveyard. He has...

... does he know about spiritual enlightenment? The country needs economic growth! And he is saying, "Our heritage is not about economic growth ...." Sure! That's why you are suffering such poverty. And if you continue that rotten heritage, sick to the soul, you will suffer the ultimate death on this planet! This will be the first country to commit suicide - just by the explosion of population...

... everything is a process, nothing is an event. You yourself say you are young, but do you know you are getting older every moment? You say you are alive, but do you know you are coming closer to your death every moment? As I see it, the moment you were born, your death was also born with you. One foot is life, the other foot is death. You are a combination of both. When you were born, you were ninety-nine...

... rare, unknown disease. What happened?" "Ah!" says Chinks, "me velly sick man. So me first call Doctor Yoo Dum. Me takee his medicine. Me velly more sick. So then me get Doctor Foo Foo. Then me takee his medicine. Then me velly bad - me think me going to die! So me callee Doctor Hak Mee." "Yes! Yes!" exclaims Wu. "Then what happened?" "Well," says...

... birth? A resurrection? Remember it. Meditation is a death and a resurrection. In this great moment, I don't want Krishna Prem to remain sad. I want Nirvano to put Krishna Prem's name on her list first. This is what I mean by: Straight to the point of enlightenment! Okay, Maneesha? Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... not escape his own death. On the cross it was proved that he was not the promised one. What have his disciples been doing? They believe that he cured the sick, they believe that he resurrected the dead, they believe that he didn't die on the cross, and that within three days of his death he was seen by a few people. But both depend on the dead. The criterion is provided by the dead, as if Jesus just...

...; you cannot be the same again. A discontinuity has happened, the past is dead - not even in dreams can it be reflected anymore; all that you had accumulated is gone. This man is going to burn you completely, this man is going to be a death. But you are scared because you don't know that after every death there is birth. The greater the death, the greater the birth - the more total the death, the more...

... total the birth. And this man is going to give you a total death. You are afraid. Who is this who is afraid? It is precisely that one who is afraid within you who is not you. That is the ego, your accumulation of the past, your identity: you are a man of position, prestige, power, a man of knowledge, respectable. This ego is going to be shattered completely by this man. This ego says to you, "Be...

..., not because he never comes but because you cannot allow him to be the right man. If you once allow that Jesus is Christ, then you have to change immediately. You cannot continue the old pattern, the old style of life has to be thrown. You will have to die and be reborn. HE SAID TO THEM: WHAT YOU EXPECT HAS COME, BUT YOU KNOW IT NOT. HIS DISCIPLES SAID TO HIM - again the same obsession, again they...

... twenty-four prophets gave some signs to judge by. You are not that one, because we have a criterion from the dead to know the living one." They said, "We cannot believe in you. Prove it, because these are the signs: make a man who is dead alive, resurrect him!" And Jesus could not even save himself on the cross, so what will he do? How can he resurrect somebody else from death? He could...

... separate from the body and when the body dies you die, and all disappears... dust unto dust... there is no divinity in you - they reduce man to matter. These are the people who remain clinging to the first door; their mental age seems to be only fifteen months. The very, very rudimentary and primitive ego remains materialist. These people remain hung up with two things: sex and food. But remember, when I...

... experimenting with nude girls and sleeping with them, just to test himself, because he was feeling that death was coming close, and he had to test himself to see whether there was still some lust in him. The country was burning, people were being killed: Mohammedans were killing Hindus, Hindus were killing Mohammedans - the whole country was on fire. And he was in the very middle of it, in Novakali - but his...

... idea of a self, continues to play games in your minds. Even if the body dies, you want to be certain that, "I will live." Many people used to come to Buddha... because this country has been dominated by this second kind of ego: people believe in the permanent soul, eternal soul, atman - they would come to Buddha again and again and say, "When I die, will something remain or not?"...

...; And Buddha would laugh and he would say, "There is nothing right now, so why bother about death? There has never been anything from the very beginning." And this was inconceivable to the Indian mind. The Indian mind is predominantly hooked with the second type of ego. That's why Buddhism could not survive in India. Within five hundred years, Buddhism disappeared. It found better roots in...

...;You are good, my son. I am happy with you." They go on sacrificing their lives just to be patted by some fantasy somewhere beyond life and death. They go on doing a thousand and one tortures to themselves just in order that God can say, "Yes, you sacrificed yourself for me." It seems as if God is a masochist or a sadist, or something like that. People torture themselves with the idea...

... living. And what is there to lose when you are eighty-five? If you go barefoot on the beach in the spring, if you collect daisies - even if you die in that, nothing is wrong. To die barefoot on the beach is the right way to die. To die collecting daisies is the right way to die. Whether you are eighty-five or fifteen doesn't matter. Take hold of this moment. Be a Zorba. You ask: "I am just curious...

... God. You are creating fear in him. If you don't believe, you will go to hell. You are creating greed in him. If you follow the church line, you will be rewarded thousandfold in heaven after death. You will destroy his whole life, and you will feel great that you have done your responsibility. This is not responsibility; this is simply irresponsibility. A response should come only out of your loving...

... some place big enough that we are far away from neighbors. Because I don't want to interfere in their life. And if they enjoy perfume then who am I to prevent them from enjoying it? And she has found the perfect place for me. Q:* WHAT HAPPENS TO RAJNEESH AND RAJNEESHPURAM WHEN YOU DIE? IT CONTINUES ON AS IT IS? A:* I cannot say anything, simply because I hate to dominate people. Even now what is...

... died. Husbands were never burned when their wives died. I don't see ... a simple arithmetic that this is a male chauvinist society. The husband is trying to control even after his death. The wife was forced in such a ugly way that if you visualize the whole scene you could not believe it. And these are the Hindus who talk about great spirituality. It is obvious that to push a living person into a...

... they will not make any effort how you can be rich. The country is tremendously capable of being rich, but the people's mind are not able to use the opportunity. These poor people, before Britain came into India's history, were giving birth to ten children -- only one will survive and nine will die. There was no medicine, no medical care. Now it is just the opposite because of Britain, that out of ten...

... hundred million. Now, India -- without Pakistan, without Bangladesh - - is eight hundred million. It has doubled in forty years' time. Its soil is completely prostituted. Q:* IS THERE ANYTHING THAT CAN BE DONE TO SAVE INDIA, DO YOU THINK? A:* I don't think that anything can be done. Perhaps it is time for India to die. And there is a time to born, there is a time to live, and there is a time to die. It...

... perfectly good. This pressure of AIDS and nuclear weapons to me is a great opportunity and challenge, and I hope that something good is going to happen soon. That we will not be so idiotic to die and destroy this beautiful planet. We are going to do something. Q:* DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT IS? A:* I have. And soon you will know.... Just few days more.... My people are preparing. Q:* WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE...

..., why we cannot create creative power. The same power can be transferred into creativity, because power is always neutral. You can burn your cigar by the lighter, you can burn your house too. Cigar does not... your lighter does not give you any instructions what to do. Science has made available all the energies. You are using them in the service of death. Use them in the service of life. It seems all...

... sorry for his death. I feel sorry that he could not afford the greatest experience of life, of the eternal flame in himself. Pope may be sorry also, but he is sorry because these people don't have food, don't have clothes, don't have hospitals. Because I know those who have clothes, and have hospitals, and have schools, they are also in tremendous misery, suffering. They may not be starving, but they...

... great sympathy because these poor people are going to vote you. You are against birth control methods, because if birth control is applied, where Mother Teresa is going to find the orphans? It is such a complicated vested interest. Mother Teresa will die if there are no orphans. What she will do? And who is going to give her a Nobel prize? Orphans are needed, urgently needed, more the better. It is a...