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Osho
...; - you will die. Inhaling, which is necessary for life, will become dangerous for life if there is no exhaling. The breath must be released. The same happens when you start receiving blissful moments, when you start receiving ecstatic moments, when the eternal starts pouring into you. The first thing is inhaling - you will inhale blissfulness - but then, exhale it. Otherwise, you will die of your own...
... tune, and share your happiness in whatsoever way it happens to you, in whatsoever way you feel to share it. But share it! It will grow more. With sharing, it grows. With miserliness - with not sharing - it dies down, it shrinks. Death is a shrinkage. Shrinkage is death; life is expansion. Allow it to expand. And once you know the feeling of expansion you will allow it to happen, because it is your...
... moment of death he is young. For example, I know Sephalie -- when she dies she will die young and fresh, as fresh as the freshly opened rosebud. I have given her the name Sephalie because "sephali" is the name of a beautiful flower. She will die like fresh dewdrops in the early morning sun. My people have to live freshly and die freshly. They have to remain continuously young. The only way to...
... asked a thousand and one times, "Why is there death?" And he would say, "Tathata -- such is the nature of things." It is not an answer, remember. What kind of answer is this? "Such is the nature of things -- that the water flows downwards and the fire rises upwards." Such is the nature of things...? In fact, the word DHAMMA, used by Buddha, which is ordinarily translated...
... as religion, exactly means suchness, the suchness of things, the dhamma of things. "Aes dhammo sanantano" -- such is the ultimate nature of things. Nothing more can be said about it. That which is born will have to die. The young will become old, the child will become young, the beautiful will become ugly, the healthy will become ill. Such is the nature of things -- but this is not an...
... the time he started thinking about finding a right place to die, he must have been nearabout one hundred and sixty years old. He asked his friends and disciples, "Now give me permission. I would like to go to a faraway virgin peak of the Himalayas to die so that no trace of me is left behind, not even footprints on the sands of time. I would simply like to disappear into the wildness of the...
... passerby stopped and asked what the matter was. "A busload of politicians just plunged over this cliff to certain death!" sobbed the swami. "That certainly is a catastrophe," sympathized the stranger, "but I did not think you sannyasins had much love for politicians!" "That's true!" said the swami as he doubled up with a fresh wave of grief. "The fact is, five...
... for forty-two years; not even for a single moment he left Buddha. Day in, day out, year in, year out he was with Buddha like a shadow. Even shadow sometimes leaves you, but he will not leave Buddha at all. He heard everything that Buddha had said and when he was asked to report it after Buddha's death he said, "I have heard the Buddha say." Each sutra starts with that "I have heard...
..., throwing pillows and things - you simply watch. You may be doing the same thing yourself, then watch. Once in a while just watch - what are you doing? Is this act that of a grown-up person? You may be growing old, but you are not growing up, and growing old has no value: growing old simply means you are coming closer to death. Growing up is a totally different phenomenon: it means you are coming closer...
... like a small child. He was afraid of ghosts, he was afraid of death, darkness - not even the word "death" was allowed to be uttered in his presence. Twice it had happened in his life that somebody started talking about death and he fainted. Just the talk about death and he fainted! Now, this man becomes a prophet of the twentieth century. The twentieth century has been dominated by three...
... death moves. Without that center, the world will disappear. That center, that unchanging truth is the very foundation of this changing world; it is rooted there. Not to know it is to live a lie which is not worth calling life. Not to know it you will have to go on doing foolish things all your lie in order to give a certain fallacy to yourself of the unchanging truth. For example, why people are so...
... die; things don't die. People go on accumulating things for the simple reason that a good furniture, a good painting, a good house are far more lasting - they may last longer than you - but you cannot say the same about people. You love somebody, and tomorrow the person dies. Then you are left empty, with a great wound which will take years to heal or may not heal ever, and it will always hurt...
... life. The innermost secrets can only be revealed to these disciples. The mysteries can be revealed only to those who are so ready that even if death is needed they will not shirk, they will not hesitate. And death is needed. To know the ultimate secret you will have to die, and until you die that ultimate secret cannot be born within you. To receive him, you will have to disappear. So only to these...
... disciples are a chosen few. The disciples are those who have come to decide that this man is their salvation, and they have staked all that they had. Now they are ready to die for him. If they live, they will live for him; if they die, they will die for him. Now there is no turning back. They have come to the point of no return. They watch this man, they love this man - now this man has become their very...
... convenient, but when trouble arises the reason will drop it and betray it. Only the heart can carry the word even when there is trouble, hardship. Even if death faces you, then too the heart will carry it. Only then can the seed have roots. HE ALSO THAT RECEIVED SEED AMONG THE THORNS IS HE THAT HEARETH THE WORD; AND THE CARE OF THIS WORLD, AND THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES, CHOKE THE WORD, AND HE BECOMETH...
... lost, and the pump won't work. It is a desert land.... Who knows? - the pump might have been working when the last man came and it may not be working now. This is taking a risk; life is at stake. But he poured the water. With trembling hands. with fear, with death near. When you come to me and I.say something of the unknown. you have to trust me. There is no other way. And it is dangerous. Who knows...
... can drink from others' throats." When he was dying, his wife Sharda asked him, "What am I to do when you die?" because death was so imminent and so certain. In India when the husband dies, the wife has to drop all her ornaments. In Bengal particularly, the wife has never to use any colored clothes, she can only use white, no ornaments. Sharda asked, "What am I to do? Should I...
... also to dissolve your person and become a presence. Only two presences can meet and mingle and merge. If you are a person then there is no possibility of melting and merging with me. You remain a rock and I am a river - how are you going to melt and merge with me? You also become a presence - that's my whole teaching, my whole message. Let the person die, let the flower disappear, because the person...
..., "Why? What about your stealing?" He said, "You are a cunning fellow! I tried my best: if I am conscious, I cannot steal; if I steal I am unconscious. I can steal only when I am unconscious. When I am conscious the whole thing seems so stupid, so meaningless. What am I doing? For what? Tomorrow I may die. And why do I go on accumulating wealth? I have more than I need; even for...
..., purchased a big quantity of poison, drank it, and waited in his bed the whole night: "Now I am going to die, now I am going to die." He opened his eyes again and looked at the clock: "Twelve... two... four... six.... And the children are getting ready, and the wife is preparing the breakfast - and I have not died yet? Or have I died and become just a ghost? What is the matter?" He...
... and more death; man will become more and more ugly. Hence when I speak of a new humanity the West can understand me; the Indian mind simply feels at a loss - what am I talking about? "A new humanity, a golden age in the future? It has already passed, it is history. We are not going to attain any golden age in the future; there is only death, man is doomed." India has accepted this idea...
... that the future is nothing but death, the future holds no hope. And I bring a new hope to you. I give you a new promise, I herald a new humanity. Hence it falls on deaf ears; it is so much against their conditioning, they cannot bridge the gap, and it is a very very repressive conditioning. India has repressed all that is natural; it has gone into its unconscious, it is there boiling within. And I am...
... - it has never happened. But the inside of the fish goes on growing; it goes on changing from one body to another. The growth, the evolution, has not happened from body to body: the growth has been happening in consciousness. When a monkey attains to a certain consciousness, the next birth will be that of man not of a monkey. He will die as a monkey and will be born as a man. The evolution is not...
... died... and all that richness and all that wealth was of no use. It was taken away by death, and you died as empty as ever, as poor as ever. And you remember even before that: you were a king and you had a great kingdom. And still you were frustrated, and still you lived in misery, and you died in misery. And again you are doing the same and hankering for more money? It will become impossible. The...
... the idea of reincarnation in every way possible. And the third thing: he was, again, the first to introduce the concept that life is a wheel - a wheel of birth and death. The wheel goes on moving and we go on clinging to the wheel. And the wheel is repetitive; again and again it will move on the same track. Nothing new will ever happen. Birth will come, you will become young, you will be full of sex...
... and great desires, and then you will be spent and you will be old, diseased, ill sick, frustrated, tired. And then death... and again birth... and so on and so forth. Each birth brings a death, each death brings a birth. It is a vicious circle, and the wheel goes on moving. In India the word for the world is SAMSARA. SAMSARA means 'the wheel'. Youth or childhood or old age are just spokes of the...
...! Seasons move in a circle. Life is a wheel and the wheel is repetitive. You will never reach anywhere if you go on clinging to the wheel. In the East it has been a known fact that we have to jump out of the wheel - only then are we free. To be free from this wheel of birth and death is to have freedom. Then you simply ARE. Then you are not moving.Then there is no past and no future but only the present...
... changes. All change is if you are clinging to the wheel. If you drop out of the wheel, all change disappears. Then you are here and always here. That state is the real search of all true seekers: how to get out of this wheel of birth and death, how to enter into life eternal where no birth ever happens and no death either, where nothing begins and nothing ends, where all simply is - how to enter into...
... experience there is nothing other than love which comes close to god. Listen. You were born, but then you were not aware at all. It was a happening, but it has already happened; nothing can be done now. You will die; someday it will happen in the future. This moment you are alive. The birth has happened, the death has to happen. Between the two there is only one possibility - love. These are the three...
... - this is the ego, and this is the block that is hindering the path. Drop it right now! Who is saying to you to prepare? If you prepare, then you will prepare for ever and ever. Have you not lived long enough already? Have you not been here so many millions of times? You have been repeating like a circle, a wheel... moving again and again - the same wheel. Birth, youth, old age, death, birth again. It...
... the ego.' But why 'preparing', and why 'one day'? Why not today? If you have seen the fact, then what is the need? When you come across a snake on the path, do you prepare to jump? You simply jump out of the way. You don't say, 'How can I jump right now? I see the snake, I see the danger, I see death standing in front of me, but how can I just immediately jump? It needs preparation, it needs...
...-rooted reason is that you feel afraid of non-being. If ego is gone then you are gone. If ego is gone it looks like death - ultimate death, utter death. The fear of non-being forces you to cling to the ego. At least... maybe it creates miseries, but you are, at least you are. You would like to suffer rather than not be. This is the problem. ou would like to be in hell rather than not be. At least one is...
... basic things: birth, love and death. They all happen. But birth has already happened - -now you cannot become aware of it. And death has not happened - how can you become aware of it right now? Only love is the possibility between the two, which is happening right now. Become aware of it and see how it happens. It is nothing on your part. You don't do anything. Suddenly you feel one day a glow...
.... The officer in charge of the firing-squad came to them and asked curtly, 'Do you want a final cigarette?" The first jew replied, 'Keep your cigarette, you murdering bum!" Whereupon the second jew whispered anxiously, 'Quiet, Jack, quiet. Don't make trouble."" When you are going to be shot, what difference does it make to create trouble or not to create trouble? Death is...
... approaching. Everybody is tied against the wall to be shot. Don't be afraid. Whether you are afraid or not makes no difference - death is approaching. Even if you don't do anything, death will come - it is already coming. The days are shortening every day. Your life is being cut every day. You are being uprooted from life every day. For what are you waiting? Do something. Be decisive. I know it is human to...
... to break western will by displaying how hopeless resistance was. 'What can the british do,' he demanded, 'against an army so devoted to me that they will go to their death at my nod? Do you see that soldier there? Soldier, jump out of the window!" Without a moment's hesitation the soldier leaped out of the window to his death, leaving the british diplomat frozen in horror. Hitler smiled grimly...
...." Whatsoever you call life is not a life at all. If I am you, I will jump. What I call life is eternal. If I am myself, then too I will jump - because there is going to be no death. But the reasons will be absolutely different. Sometimes actions can be similar and reasons can be absolutely different. So never pay too much attention to the action. Always pay much more attention to the reason...
... the water, he is just quenching the thirst of the body. When you drink water, you are quenching your thirst. When Buddha eats food, he is just helping the body to be alive so that it can be used. It is a means, a vehicle - all care has to be taken of it. When you eat food, it is a question of life and death. Food is life. When Buddha sleeps and you sleep, both are in the same way sleeping. The...
... needed to make it a complete whole... a graceful, elegant whole. Man alone is incomplete. Woman alone is also incomplete. Look at life. All polarities are joined together there - life and death, love and hate, day and night, summer and winter. All polarities are joined together... the earth and the sky. The god is the total, the whole. The whole cannot be just male. This is a male attitude - if people...
... life will disappear by and by from your hands. You won't be able to say why you are living. You will live comfortably, conveniently. You will live comfortably, you will die comfortably, but you will not live at all because the interior will be empty. And one has to live from the innermost core of his being. The real-richness comes from the innermost core. Things are good, but not good enough. They...
... get rid of it all. And if we don't get rid of it all soon enough, then the cup will be full. Man is going to die if the new does not arrive; the old cannot survive. There is no possibility for the old to survive, it has come to its tether's end. It has lived more than expected. I teach you a new man, a new humanity, which will not think of the future and which will not live with shoulds and oughts...
..., because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation, logic is more important than love, mind is more important than heart. Power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy. Larry went to an Italian restaurant, and just as the waiter was about to serve, he tripped and...
... beauty, depth, richness. If the old man is really mature, which is very rarely the case, then he will be beautiful. But people only grow in age, they don't grow up. Hence the problem. Grow up, become more mature, become more alert and aware. And old age is the last opportunity given to you: before death comes, prepare. And how does one prepare for death? By becoming more meditative. If some lurking...
... desires are still there, and the body is getting old and the body is not capable of fulfilling those desires, don't be worried. Meditate over those desires, watch, be aware. Just by being aware and watchful and alert, those desires and the energy contained in them can be transmuted. But before death comes, be free of all desires. When I say be free of all desires I simply mean be free of all objects of...
... to die later and later. The deathrate has tremendously changed: just thirty years ago, out of ten children born in India nine were going to die before the age of one. Now nine live, only one dies. The deathrate has been changed but the birthrate remains the same. Now there are only two possibilities: either drop the birthrate or raise the deathrate. There are only two possibilities: either kill...
... A, and the second fellow the grade of A minus. This is really a philosophical question: "Why am I here?" I don't know. Why not? Or -- because. Three newly deceased candidates for heaven sit in the waiting room of Saint Peter's office. Finally Saint Peter returns from lunch and asks the receptionist to send in the first candidate. "How did you die, and why do you think you are...
... of a heart attack." "Well," said Saint Peter, "that's a very unusual way to die, but entirely moral. Admitted. Send in the next candidate." The second candidate told an even more surprising story. "Saint Peter," he said, "if you will excuse the expression, I swear to God I was minding my own business taking a nap in the hammock out in the back yard. I heard a...
... means that the opposite is really opposite, and life always implies the opposite in itself. In life the opposite is not really the opposite, it is the complementary. Without it nothing is possible. For example, life exists because of death. If there is no death there cannot be any life. Death is not the end and death is not the enemy - rather, on the contrary, because of death life becomes possible...
.... So death is not somewhere in the end, it is involved here and now. Each moment has its life and its death; otherwise existence is impossible. There is light, there is darkness. For logic they are opposites, and logic will say: If it is light, there cannot be any darkness, if it is dark, then there cannot be any light. But life says quite the contrary. Life says: If there is darkness it is because...
... darkness; they think of life, then they start fighting death. That is why there exists no tradition in the world which says that God is both light and darkness. There is one tradition which says that God is light, he is not darkness. There is no darkness in God for the people who believe God is light. There is another tradition that says that God is darkness - but for them there is no light. Both are...
... more money and more money. In the end you die with a big bank balance but inside totally poor, because the inner richness arises only when you can enjoy the useless. What is meditation? People come to me and say, "What is the use of it? What will we gain out of it? What is the benefit of it?" Meditation...and you ask about the benefit? You cannot understand it because meditation is just...
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