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... TO LEAVE THE WORLD? THAT VERY DAY WAS THE FOURTH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR 1718. NO SOONER HAD HE FINISHED RECITING THE VERSE THAN AKINOBO NODDED HIS HEAD AND DIED. Zen masters know how to live and also know how to die. They take neither life seriously nor death seriously. Seriousness is a sick way of looking at existence. A man of perfection will love to live, and will love to die. His...
... life will be a dance, and his death will be a song. There will be no distinction between life and death. Question 4: Maneesha's question: BELOVED OSHO, THE PHILOSOPHER KARL JASPERS, WRITES IN VOLUME THREE OF HIS BOOK, 'PHILOSOPHY': "TO ASK REAL QUESTIONS ABOUT REALITY, MAN MUST HAVE THOUGHT, INVESTIGATED, AND ORIENTED HIMSELF BY DISTINCTIONS... REAL IS WHAT CAN BE MEASURED, WHAT OUR SENSES CAN...
... this mystery of death!" "DEATH?" screeches Mind, and he faints again into the plate of cream cakes. Half an hour later, at the Vienna airport, Doctor Krazy Karl Kong is dragging Doctor Sigfried Mind by the collar onto the plane bound for Cairo. "Come on, Mind!" cries Krazy Kong, huffing and puffing. "We have made it this far, we have got to see those mummies!" "...
..., Doctor Kong trips over something. "What is that?" screeches Mind. "Ah! It is alright - it is only a dead cat!" exclaims Doctor Kong. "DEATH!" screeches Mind. And he falls over in a cold faint. "Pull yourself together, Doctor!" shouts Kong. "We are almost there!" And Kong grabs Sigfried by the shoe, and drags him feet first towards a huge golden coffin...
... conditions. Even if death is a condition, they are ready to die. But they want to learn what truth is, they want to be in the world of truth; they don't want to live in the world of lies and illusions and dreams and projections. This third type can become a disciple. And only this third type, when they have attained, can become masters. That's why I say truth cannot be taught but it can be learned. But...
... not only don't know, they never dream that there are peaks of experience, heights of ecstasies. They remain almost like animals: eating, sleeping - and confined to such things. A life of routine, moving like a wheel; they are born, they live, they give birth to others, and they die. And the wheel goes on moving: they are born again, the same thing is repeated again and again, ad nauseam. Then there...
... on... rolling. Then there is a third part - very rare human beings, exceptions, the cream of humanity. That third part is those who seek, who inquire; but the inquiry is not intellectual, the inquiry is total. The inquiry is not like learning any other subject; the inquiry is so total that they are ready to die for it, they are ready to change their whole being for it. They are ready to fulfill all...
... then the whole thing depends on you. A master exists - you have to be in the presence of the master completely empty of yourself. That is the meaning of death. A disciple comes and dies before the master. That's what surrender means. He comes and leaves himself outside the door. Where he leaves his shoes, he leaves himself there also. He comes to the master completely empty. In that very emptiness...
..., "Give me a glass of water, I am thirsty." And if I go on talking about other things your thirst will grow meanwhile. When I stop again you will say, "I will die! Give me a glass of water!" But you come and you talk about God, and you say you would like to know about God, and I ask about your health and how is your wife, and how are your children? - and you have forgotten about God...
..., where it is going, whether there is any earth to find, to rest, to go to sleep, to die - or is it falling in a bottomless abyss? Who knows? But no hesitation. So soft, so delicate, but so strong, not any uncertainty, not any clinging to the flower anymore. The time has come. It simply leaves the flower and falls to the ground. A Sufi master used to say to his disciples: Simply trust. Do not the petals...
... flutter down just like that? When you come to a master be like a rosepetal. Fall into the master, fall unto the master just like that - as a rosepetal falls towards the earth unhesitating, absolutely in trust that the earth must be there - to rest, to die, with no effort of its own. The very gravitation of the earth does the work - it has just to trust. If it trusts, it doesn't cling to the plant, it...
... that one could put, all that was humanly possible. He was ready to die for it. The middle of the night had come and nothing had happened yet. And he was driving himself crazy. For days he had not eaten, he had not slept, he had not taken a bath - there was no time to waste. One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock in the morning... and he was just on the verge of either going mad or...
... you die, you die fully alert - now there is no way to lose your alertness, your alertness has become your nature. This is the essential message of Buddha. And unless you understand this, you will miss all the sutras of Ikkyu. Many have commented on the sutras, and particularly the Western commentators go on missing the point - because they think what the sutra is saying is a philosophy. The best...
... course when an attachment is broken there is pain. Use all occasions. DON'T hide your wounds. That's why Blyth says there is something morbid in it - he is saying, "Why open your wounds again and again? WHY go on looking at the wounds? Forget them! Look at the positive side of life. Why think of other things? Why think this flower will die?" But whether you think it or not, the flower is...
... going to die. And Buddha's insistence is this: if you know that THIS flower is going to die, there is a possibility to attain to that flower which never dies. That lotus can open within you. But if you remain obsessed with these flowers which come and go, then that lotus will remain unopened for ever. THE ORIGINAL MAN MUST RETURN TO HIS ORIGINAL PLACE; WHY SEEK THEN THE NEEDLESS BUDDHA? THE ORIGINAL...
... through your cooperation. You nourish it, you feed it. Stop nourishing it. Let it die of starvation! THE ORIGINAL MAN MUST RETURN TO HIS ORIGINAL PLACE; WHY SEEK THEN THE NEEDLESS BUDDHA? And this is a beautiful statement. Ikkyu says: DON'T be bothered about the Buddha, DON'T start seeking the Buddha. Seek the original man, and you will find the Buddha! And if you start searching for the Buddha you will...
... is aware, in death he is aware. In happiness he is aware, in unhappiness he is aware. In success he is aware, in failure he is aware. He has the secret key. That secret key is awareness. He does not ask for anything else now. He knows the art of transforming every situation into blissfulness. The grace of awareness transforms even hell into a heaven. DO NOT TAKE IT TO HEART; THE REAL WAY IS ONE...
... because of this constant thinking about past and future, he destroys the present. And the present is the only reality there is. One has to live in the present. The past has to die and has to be allowed to die. The really intelligent person never looks back; he never bothers about the past - that which is finished is finished forever. And he never thinks of the future either because that which has not...
... in conflict. With the woman you had loved once you will feel angry for the simple reason that now it is difficult to get out of this prison. You have imprisoned yourself; now the only way to go on living in it is to make yourself as insensitive as possible, to become as unloving as possible, to become as false as possible, to be as dead as possible. Hence people die very soon. They may be buried...
... after forty years, fifty years, but they die nearabout thirty. By the time their love starts dying they die, because life is love. But love is not law, life is not law Life is not logic, love is not logic. Life is basically insecure, and that is the beauty of it. Hence I don't see that with the coming age, with the new maturity that man is attaining, marriage can exist anymore in the same old way. It...
... your grave you will be perfectly comfortable and out of danger. Nothing can happen there; there is no danger. You cannot die again, no illness can happen, nobody can leave you, you can't go bankrupt, nothing can be stolen from you. You will be perfectly at peace. You must have come across gravestones - and it is written on almost all graves: "Rest in peace." What else is there? One man died...
... old tradition creates a great weight; it is a long past. They could not forgive Jesus, how can they forgive you? And Jesus has not become my sannyasin! If fact, he never went outside the tradition; he remained a Jew. He was not a Christian, remember, because there was no Christianity at that time. Christianity was born out of his death, out of his crucifixion. Hence I always call Christianity "...
... vibe is new." He fell at the feet of Buddha and he said, "Initiate me too, because now I am very old; death is coming closer. I would also like to taste something that you have tasted. And forgive me and forgive all my anger. I have not known what is happening to you and what has happened to you. It is good that you have come. It is good that you remembered me, that you have not forgotten...
... life is; one needs to be totally open, insecure; one needs to be able to die in knowing it - only then one comes to know life. If you are afraid of death, you will never know life, because fear can never know. If you are unafraid of death, if you are ready to die to know, you will know life, eternal life, which never dies.Law is hidden fear, love is expressed fearlessness. When you love, fear...
..., and they have brought a woman. And they say to him that this woman has committed sin: "What do you say?" They tempted him; because it is said in the old scripture that if a woman commits sin, she should be stoned to death. Now they are giving two alternatives to Jesus. If he says follow the scripture, then they will ask, "Where has your concept of love, of compassion, gone? Can't you...
... been invented by de Bono. But he said po, he actually did it. He said to these people, to the crowd, that the scripture is right: one who has committed sin should be stoned to death. But..."Only those people amongst you who have never sinned, and never thought of committing sins, you should come forward. You should take stones in your hands and kill this woman." Now there was not a single...
... killed. He has escaped from prison. He is sentenced to death." You have seen the man. You can say, "Yes," and be true; but then you will be responsible for the death of that man. You can say you have not seen him, or you can even give a wrong direction; then that man is saved. You remained non- violent, but you became untrue. What will you do? It seems impossible to choose, almost...
..., the Jew, the Jaina, the Buddhist - they all believe. To believe is cheap, it is very easy - nothing is at stake. You can easily believe in God, you can easily believe in immortality of the soul, you can easily believe in the theory of reincarnation. In fact, they remain just superficial; deep down you are not affected by them, not at all. When death will knock at your door you will know your beliefs...
... have all disappeared. The belief in the immortality of the soul will not help you when death will knock at your door - you will cry and weep and you will cling to life. When death comes you will forget all about God; when death comes you will not be able to remember the theory - and the complicated implications of it - about reincarnation. When death knocks you, it knocks down all the structure of...
... said, "Look at Manjushree! Go and ask him why he is not crying." They asked Manjushree. He laughed and said, "What reason is there to cry? Buddha has helped me to know my own light. I am thankful, I am grateful, but there is no darkness descending. And how can Buddha die? I know I cannot die - how can Buddha die? He will be here. Just as a river disappears in the ocean he will...
... "the motherland"; the difference is only in names. Whether you call the country motherland or fatherland does not make much difference, because you create the same trouble. The labels are different but it is the same politics; the labels are different but it is the same childish approach towards reality. Why do you seek for God? Out of fear? Yes, there is fear, because there is death. If you...
... to now you were protected by the father, cared for by the mother. Now who is going to protect you and who is going to care for you? The sky seems to be utterly neutral; it does not care this way or that, whether you live or die doesn't matter. A great fear arises in one's being, a trembling. Soren Kierkegaard has exactly called it trembling; in that trembling he thinks religion is born. Yes, in...
... - how can it be uncaring towards us? But the so-called religious people go on asking God for protection; hence God is called "The Great Protector." The religious people go on asking God for eternal life because they are trembling, they are scared of death... and death is coming every day closer and closer. Soon it will encompass you, it will drown you into darkness. Before that you have to...
... paradise. So if some gay people are here they should remember it. When after death you are asked, "Where do you want to go?" immediately say, "To the Mohammedan paradise." There you will find gay clubs. But don't go to a Hindu paradise - there you will not find gay clubs at all! That has never been the idea in India; it has been a sin. If you go to a Greek paradise you will find...
... single inch closer to fulfillment. People die on the same spot where they were born. People die in the same stupid state in which they were born. I have heard: Sir Henry, bored with English country life, visited a French SALON DE PLAISIR. In response to Sir Henry's request for something unusual, the madam suggested, "I can give you Hott Tung, a Chinese delicacy." "No," replied his...
... ready to do, and that which is of immense value he postpones. He goes on saying "Tomorrow," and the tomorrow never comes. Instead comes death. And this has been happening many times. This is not your first life on the earth; you have lived millions of times and each time this postponement has been your root cause of misery. Now don't postpone any more. Use this opportunity. Use this context...
... of a flowing life, of a dynamic life, or one who is not stagnant, of one who is not divided, of one who has no future, no past, of one who has only the present - the only moment - and lives it. Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me. If you ask...
... which could have been interpreted as if I were going to Hollywood. Maybe she was talking about the 'holy wood'. Adolf Hitler was very worried about his death. Naturally... he had killed so many people, it was natural that he should be worried about his own death - all those killed Jews must have been haunting him. So he enquired. Somebody suggested 'There is a great Jewish astrologer, the greatest in...
... Germany. Only he can say something about when you will die, how you will die; and he has always predicted rightly - he can be relied upon. All his predictions have been one hundred per cent correct.' But he was a Jew. Still Adolf Hitler called him asked him. The Jew brooded over it closed his eyes and he said 'Yes it has come: you will die on a Jewish holiday.' Hitler said, 'Make it exact. What do you...
... mean? What Jewish holiday?' And the man said 'That is difficult. One thing is certain: whenever you die that will be a Jewish holiday.' So, wherever Osho goes. that will be Hollywood that's natural. Don't be worried about such things. Question 5: IN THE LAST FEW DAYS MY MIND HAS BEEN PLAYING WITH THIS QUESTION. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A HARD-WAY PERSON, FOR EXAMPLE A FOLLOWER OF GURDJIEFF, COMES ACROSS A...
... outside. If you go in, it can be filled. If you reach to your centre of being, it will be full. And that is real fullness. Then you are an emperor - outwardly you may be just a beggar. Then you are really rich, and the richness is such that nobody can take it away from you. Even death cannot separate you from your richness. This richness you are carrying as a treasure in your being, but you have not...
.... If you had really loved your mother then what is there to weep and cry about? She is GONE! A deep silence surrounds you. In that deep silence you start understanding death, you become aware of your own death. When your mother dies - or your father dies - it is an indication that you will have to die. Then you become involved with death. You try to understand it. While she was alive she helped you...
... saint and has never sinned he is one polar. Something is missing. When a man is two polar, and both the polarities are there, the man is total and alive. He is both night and day, life and death, chaos and cosmos. So, you ask, Does a sinner deserve to be enlightened? I tell you, Yes. Only a sinner deserves. But awareness has to be brought in. So I don't condemn sin. I only indicate to you: Sin, but...
... then you will not go astray. Question 4: CAN ONE GET OVER-ADDICTED TO CATHARSIS? Yes. Mind has a very deep-rooted disease I call the disease of O.D: overdose; overdoing. Remain alert for this disease of O.D. You can do anything too much, and then, that which was going to be beneficial will become harmful. Food is good, it is vitality, but you can eat too much, then it becomes poisonous. You can die...
... by overeating - in fact, medical researchers say that people die more of overeating than of starvation. Newspapers go on reporting that a few people have died somewhere because of starvation, they never report how many people are dying by overeating - that should be reported first. Always, more people are dying through overeating. A man can live for three months without eating anything at all. But...
... to understand life. Now she is gone, she has opened another door - the door of death, to look into: because she has gone and you will have to follow. If you have loved a person, when the person is gone you don't feel relief - and you don't cry, and you don't weep. In deep silence you accept the fact, the helplessness of it - and the love continues, because love does not end with the body, love does...
... life, the grandeur that surrounds you. From that very grandeur you will have your first glimpses of God. I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. But this is possible only if you decide to become a disciple. Sannyas is a great agreement, a covenant. When...
... PLAYING WITH US? AND HOW LONG WILL YOU PLAY? It is not a question of time. If you decide to be a disciple, it can go on and on - in the body and out of the body, with the mind, without the mind, in life and in death, within life and beyond life. This game is an eternal game, that's why I call it the ultimate game. Those who decided to play with Christ, they are still playing; on new planes, in new...
... you are an insider you know that there is a beginning to this play but no end to it. You have entered into something which is going to last forever. OSHO PLEASE EXPLAIN. A game has to be played, not to be explained. If you explain it, it loses all charm. Come, be a partner. Get involved in it. There are a few things which cannot be explained - in the very explanation they die. For example, a joke...
... have made things very difficult for the mother. Mahavira's mother's death must have been a pure accident. Goshalak's mother lived. These things are not allowed. Goshalak suffered because his mother lived. Mahavira's mother died. These are foolish criteria. They don't see Mahavira directly, they are looking for other indications. When Jesus was there, Jews were asking certain questions, because he had...
... a community which values non-violence very much, you may not even remember that you murdered - that part will simply disappear. We listen only to that which we want to listen to. I have heard. As he lay on his deathbed he spoke, 'Sara, I want you to know before I die that Ginsburg the tailor owes me two hundred dollars, and Morris the butcher owes me fifty dollars, and Klein next door owes me...
... motivation, nothing is wrong in it. It is absolutely natural to come with a motivation, otherwise how else will you come? Without motivation, only a madman can come here. Without motivation, how can you come? You must have some motivation to learn meditation, to have a more silent life, to learn about love, to have more loving relationships, to know what this life is all about, to know what death is, to...
... know if there is something beyond death. Without motivation you cannot come to me. So I accept it absolutely and you have to accept it - you have come to me with motivation. It is my work here to help you to drop the motivation. You come with motivation - that's your work, without it you cannot come. Then starts my work: to help you to drop the motivation. Motivation brings you close to me but then...
... don't have any face. Your reality is faceless. And that facelessness is what Zen people call the original face. It is not a face at all. When you were not born, what face had you then? When you die, what face will you carry with yourself? This face that you see in the mirror will be dropped here; it will disappear into the earth - dust unto dust. You will go faceless just as you came faceless. Right...
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