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Osho
... death, all the pleasures of life; all imaginable fantasies will be fulfilled. And you will be surprised what kind of fantasies these religious people have been offering to fulfill. Mohammed says in his paradise - and remember, the English word paradise comes from the Arabic firdous; it is basically Mohammedan - in his paradise, there are rivers of wine. "Drink as much as you want, drown yourself...
... crippled, unintelligent, mediocre, stupid - and after death you will achieve everything. And nobody knows what happens after death. Nobody has ever returned and told what happens after death. So they are doing such a fabulous business - they are selling such a commodity, which is invisible, intangible, and what they are taking in return is your whole humanity, your whole integrity. They are destroying...
... with some ecstasy, some blissfulness. And it is not a question of a bargain after death. I am not promising you something in the future, and I am not asking you anything in return, not even a thank-you, because I am grateful to you that you shared with me. My religion is a religion of sharing, not of following. It is a religion of love. The very idea of following makes me sick. It is sickening. You...
... followers became Christians. But Jesus was not a Christian, and his only crime was that he was himself an individual, trying to live authentically his own way of life, not bothering much about the tradition. That's why the Jews were so very angry. They would have loved him, they would have made him a great rabbi, but he tried his individual way, not the traditional way. He had to die on the cross just...
... - remove God and the world is accidental, meaningless. And the mind has an intrinsic incapacity to live with meaninglessness, so it creates all kinds of fictions - God, nirvana, heaven, paradise, other life beyond death - and makes a whole system. But it is a fiction, to fulfill a certain psychological need. I cannot say, "There is God." I cannot say, "There is not God." To me the...
... existential status. We come from a divine fullness, and we are carrying that fullness within us, with each beat of our heart, our life belongs to that divine fullness. Even in death; you don't disappear into a zero. Only the body, your house, which has become old and dilapidated, disappears into its elementary forces. But you, as a consciousness, as a being, go on moving into new forms, until that ultimate...
... but a school, to change your unconsciousness into consciousness. Please don't use negative words like zero. They are dangerous. If you put two zeros on both the extremes of your life your birth is out of zero, your death is into a zero, between these two zeros what you can be, except a zero? Between two zeros, what meaning you can have? What fullness you can experience? Your life will be just a...
... from the richest man of the capital almost half of his treasures. It was a great crime. The legal system that was prevailing in the country would have given him death. But Lao Tzu called the rich man also to the court and said that "Both these people are criminals. And they both should be sentenced to jail for six months." The rich man said, "What kind of justice is this? I have been...
...; for example, suicide is a crime, and if a man is caught committing suicide, he has not yet committed. He has been simply caught making an effort to commit. Then your legal system, sentencing him to death, is strange. That's what he was going to do. So why all this fuss? Years of arguments, courts, judges, wastage of time and money, and finally you sentence the man to death. And that's what he was...
... barbarious age. Perhaps we have better clothes, better houses, polite nice manners; beautiful masks to hide our faces; but deep down, there is the animal who hankers for revenge. It is strange to see that still there are countries where death sentence is legal. If a man has murdered someone, and you think it is a crime; certainly it is a crime. Nobody has the right to destroy somebody else' life. But what...
... innocent people. I have been in jail in America for twelve days, and that gave me a great experience, from the inside. I have been to jails before, but I was an outsider. This time I was an insider, and inmate. And I was surprised to know, utterly surprised, that the people you have condemned as criminals, condemned for their whole life to live in darkness and dismal cells, which is worse than death, are...
... light. So the unenlightened person is simply asleep, the enlightened person is awake. There is no opposition. Enlightenment is the transcendence of all dualities: pleasure, pain; love, hate, life, death -- all oppositions. Enlightenment is the situation where you have come to a point of witnessing all the opposites as complementaries and you are only a witness. So I cannot say it is pleasure -- I can...
... A COUCH AND THE FREUDIAN ANALYST ASKS YOU THE FARTHERMOST REMEMBRANCE YOU HAVE OF YOURSELF. WHICH ONE WILL IT BE? ANSWER: In the first place, I will put the Freudian on the couch! No Freudian can put me on the couch. What do they know? Even Freud knows nothing of any importance. He is full of fear, is afraid of ghosts, is afraid of death -- so much that even the mention of death and he goes into a...
... never comes. And you will die in the ditch, waiting -- waiting for Godot. I want you to be absolutely free in spirit. I am not anybody's father figure, so you cannot depend on me. And I am not your leader, so you cannot say one day, "You have misled us." It was your joy to come or not to come. You enjoyed coming with me, that was your joy. I allowed you to come with me, that was my joy. I...
...; your whole interest is in the future. So always the future comes in the present and slips out of your hands and you go on thinking about the future. Future never comes. One day death comes. There are many people who realize only at the moment of death that they were alive, but they could not manage to live it -- and now there is no future. QUESTION: IN THE PRESENT ARE YOU STAYING HERE? ANSWER: Yes...
... remain behind? It has to come into the marketplace. Its presence only will be enough for many lies to die. If you write a book, somebody has to purchase it, first; secondly, he has to read it. The book has become out of date. If the person can see it on the television, without purchasing a book and without reading it.... and remember always, seeing reaches deeper in you than reading. Reading is only...
.... There are seven days, but she will not die on any other day.' He was not sorry for the death of the mother, he was complaining: 'That woman tortured me my whole life, gave me work without asking me. And she could have died on Saturday, on Friday, on any day. But I knew from the very beginning that she would die on Sunday - and particularly this Sunday because I have purchased tickets to go to the...
... not even seen his face. The man is sitting on the beach - he comes from behind and kills him with a knife. He does not escape, he stands there. The crowd gathers, the police come. They ask him why he has killed the man. He says, "Don't ask me any why, because I have been asking why - no answer comes. Why am I born? Why are you born? Why do people die? Why do people have to live? Nobody answers...
... reason at all to murder. And when the judge asks why, he says, "I have been asking why, and there seems to be no answer. I also don't have any answer." Then circumstantial evidence is produced. One man says, "This young man has been eccentric from the very beginning. He is my neighbor - the day his mother died, he said, 'That woman has decided to die on Sunday just to spoil my holiday...
... the man. Ordinarily, anybody murdering would have escaped, but you were just standing there with the knife in your hand. You did not escape." He said, "To tell you the truth, it is that before my death I wanted to do a decisive act. In my whole life others have been dictating to me, 'Do this, do that, go to this school, study this subject.' I have never been given any chance to decide...
... death you will not be responsible for - two of the most important things in life are not in your hands - but you can commit suicide; that is a decisive point. To commit suicide is to accept failure, is to accept that you are defeated. But it is only in such a situation of the mind that a man starts looking - perhaps there are ways of living other than how he has lived up to now, perhaps there are...
... lived in the hope that someday some monk will die, and the rock will be removed - then he can shout. But meanwhile there was a little food that he has been sent with, and after that food, he started eating rotten food sent with other dead bodies which had become just skeletons. It took ten years for another monk to die, although this monk was praying every day to God, "There are so many old monks...
...-bigger phenomenon.... You feel joy, you feel blissfulness, and at the same time a trembling, a fear - but this fear will disappear. It is a natural process. As you become more and more accustomed to the new state of joyfulness, fear will be reduced. Soon you will find there is no fear at all. And to be fearless is a tremendously great achievement, because fear is part of your death. If you become...
..., "Why have you chosen this title?" He said, "I don't have anything else to offer to God except my imperfect songs." On his death bed, an old friend had come to console Rabindranath, and he told him, "You should be dying with absolute contentment, because you are perhaps the greatest poet in the whole world." In the West, Shelley has two thousand songs which can be put to...
... music. Rabindranath has six thousand songs, and of far greater significance than any of the songs that Shelley has. That old friend was saying to Rabindranath, "You should die absolutely contented. You have achieved something - a peak no one has ever been able to achieve." Rabindranath opened his eyes and said, "Keep quiet! - because I know I have not been able to sing the song I had...
... come to sing. I am an utter failure. I am dying with tears in my eyes." And he did die with tears in his eyes. He said to his friend, "I am praying to God! 'Give me a little time more, because in this whole life that you have given to me, I have been simply arranging my instruments. Now that the instruments are ready, you are taking me away - and the song that I have come to sing remains...
..., killed Mansoor, crucified Jesus, they could have killed me any day. The desire is there, but also a great fear: If they kill me, then my words and my people will become stronger, my death will bring them together. My people will become a force in changing the whole future of humanity. So they are trying more sophisticated ways: silencing me. They don't know that, according to me, they are only retarded...
... is going comfortably, to thank God. That thankfulness means nothing. These three days I have been watching. slowly, slowly, all of you have stopped thanking Him after the prayer; you failed the test. It was a beautiful test. Even if death comes to me, I will die with gratefulness. He gave me life; He took it away. It was His, it is His, it will be His. Who am I to interfere in His affairs?" So...
.... It is the center of death. The word "hara" is Japanese; that's why in Japan, suicide is called hara-kiri. The center is just two inches below the navel. It is very important, and almost everybody in the world has felt it. But only in Japan have they gone deeper into its implications. Even the people in India, who had worked tremendously hard on centers, had not considered the hara. The...
... reason for their missing it was because they had never considered death to be of any significance. Your soul never dies, so why bother about a center that functions only as a door for energies to get out, and to enter into another body? They worked from sex, which is the life center. They have worked on seven centers, but the hara is not even mentioned in any Indian scriptures. The people who worked...
... hardest on the centers for thousands of years have not mentioned the hara, and this cannot be just a coincidence. The reason was that they never took death seriously. These seven centers are life centers, and each center is of a higher life. The seventh is the highest center of life, when you are almost a god. The hara is very close to the sex center. If you don't rise towards higher centers, towards...
... he starts feeling a pull towards the seventh center. Because of these seven centers, India never bothered about hara. Hara is not in the line; it is just by the side of the sex center. The sex center is the life center, and hara is the death center. Too much excitement, too much uncenteredness, too much throwing your energy all over the place is dangerous, because it takes your energy towards the...
... somewhere else, life will go on flowing. But hara is a death center. Energy should not be allowed through the hara. A person whose energy starts through hara you can very easily detect. For example, there are people with whom you will feel suffocated, with whom you will feel as if they are sucking your energy. You will find that, after they are gone, you feel at ease and relaxed, although they were not...
... divides in polar opposites; the division is not there in existence itself. Existence is undivided. The day and the night are one, the birth and death are one, the plus and the minus are one, the positive and the negative are one. But logically they are incompatibles. Existentially a totally different dimension opens up: they are not contradictory to each other but complementary. This word has to be...
... pondered over, meditated upon. Life is complementariness! The opposite is not really opposite; it helps, it supports its own so-called opposite. Without birth there is no possibility of death, and without death there can be no birth either. It is one phenomenon, two sides of the same coin. Yes, I say, Lisa, that first you should be in the moment, totally one with whatsoever is happening, utterly one...
... antithesis meet, mingle, merge and become one. Consciousness is a state of orgasmic oneness where man and woman disappear and become one, where life and death are no more separate, where they are in such deep accord that you cannot draw a line where life ends, where death begins. Rather than thinking about it, go into it. What I am saying is something existential, not intellectual. If you just listen to my...
..., the very climax of reproduction. Nobody can surpass them. And the amoeba is also religious in another way: the amoeba is eternal, because when there is no birth there is no death. That's why it is so difficult to kill the amoebas! Our doctors are trying hard, but it is very difficult, almost impossible to kill them, for the simple reason because death is possible only if there has been birth. But...
... mother. That must be even holier." And that man had other conditions also. The cow should be completely of white color, because black represents the devil and death and darkness and all that is evil. So a white cow had to be found for him. It had to be completely white - not even patches of other color. I said to him, "Can't you see a simple fact, that even the black cow gives white milk. You...
... ready to die and disappear the superman cannot arrive. The seed has to die in the soil. Only then beautiful green sprouts will start growing. But the seed has to die. Man has to die to give place to the superman. So on the one hand he loves man because he is the seed... but he hates man because the seed is not allowing the superman to grow. The seed has become an imprisonment. The seed should be only...
... protective, and as the right soil is found, the seed should immediately be ready to die. But the seed becomes too protective - then it becomes a prison. Then the seed avoids the right soil, because there he will have to die. Then the seed starts loving itself, and forgets completely the great possibility that he is carrying within himself. Zarathustra loves the superman, and hence he has to hammer and...
... can be done then the part that becomes known is no more you. The part that still knows, is you, so it is irreducible; that mystery of the knower will never be solved. And the end remains unknowable. What to say about the end of existence? We don't even know what happens to a man when he dies, and people die every day; people simply disappear. The cocoon is left, the body is left, and the soul...
...? - nobody knows where it goes, whether it remains or not, whether is simply disappears, dissolves or travels ahead. Death happens every day and we are not even able to know death - so what to say about the death of the whole existence ? We will not be there to witness it either. Just as the beginning has been missed, the end is going to be missed, because when the existence ends we will end with it. So...
...: Did I miss? Osho replies, no, not at all! With me, nobody is going to miss. It is going to happen sooner or later - it is only a question of time. With me, nobody is going to be a loser!] [Another group member says: During the group I found out that I was really afraid of death and I really understood the energy.... Now I have lost this understanding. Osho checks his energy.] Good! It was a real...
... glimpse but just a glimpse. It was good to begin with. More glimpses will be needed; then it will become your insight. Just like lightning it happened, for a moment it was there, but that's how it happens for the first time; one should not hope for more. If even for a single moment you have seen your fear and your death it is of tremendous importance. More glimpses will be coming soon so when it happens...
... next time accept it. Everybody is afraid of death; it is a basic fear. It is not that one is a coward - it is basic to life. It is life-protective: it is a strategy to protect life. Accept it, and if you accept it you will be able to go deep into it. The day the glimpse becomes an insight, the fear disappears, because then it is revealed that life and death are one and the same thing. They are not...
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