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... Osho From Death to Deathlessness: There is a bigger universe within you Main Books Headers Help Your browser does not support iframes. < Prev Osho From Death to Deathlessness Next > There is a bigger universe within you From: Osho Date: Fri, 25 August 1985 00:00:00 GMT Book Title: From Death to Deathlessness Chapter #: 20 Location: am in Rajneeshmandir Archive Code: N.A...
.... But now those religions are all on their deathbed and the sooner they die the better. Why do you need a belief in the first place? You don't believe in a roseflower. Nobody asks you, "Do you believe in a roseflower?" You will simply laugh, you will say, "The question of belief does not arise; I know the roseflower." Knowledge needs no belief. But the blind man believes in light...
... beliefs. My work is to help all the religions die peacefully. The area that they have been occupying should be occupied by science. We can keep two names: science for objective reality and religion for subjective reality. But there is no need for two names. It is better to have one name - science - with two dimensions: one moving outward, one moving inward. Scientific method starts with doubt. It goes...
... excited, because the master had promised, "When Shvetketu comes, then everything will be discussed. For the time being you do this, and ask the question later." Shvetketu came, handed over the cows to the master, and said, "Now can I go? My father must be getting very old, and I don't want him to die disappointed in me." The master said, "But what about those other things we...
... breeze. He came into the house. You could expect that he would have declared, "Now I have fulfilled your desire." No, he simply touched his father's feet, kissed his father's feet, tears flowing from his eyes. The father said, "So, it has happened. Now I can die peacefully. I have fulfilled my duty; I am not leaving behind me an ignorant man full of rubbish knowledge. I am leaving behind...
...From Death to Deathlessness...
... is true, because the first thing a child does after birth is to inhale. Life starts functioning with inhalation. Hence, you identify life with inhalation. And the last thing a man who is going to die will do will be to exhale. You cannot die with inhalation, can you? So deep down, the unconscious feels that exhalation is death and inhalation is life. You cling to inhalation. And if you cling to one...
.... That's why mind divides the world into white and black, into life and death, into hate and love, into friend and foe. The world is neither white nor black - the world is some sort of grey. One pole is white, another pole is black; just in the middle where black and white merge and meet and become one, is the reality. But mind sees in polarities It says: Either this is true or this is untrue. And I have...
... middle, you will attain to Enlightenment. As you are, you only inhale, you never exhale. The body exhales and forces the air out - you again inhale. Just watch your breathing - you pay more attention to inhalation, you go on inhaling. Exhalation is just left to the body. The body throws air out, you inhale again, because deep down you think that inhalation is life and exhalation is death. In a way it...
... and death are both me. Don't cling. Exhalation, inhalation - both are me. If you cling to one, then your life will be a neurosis, because what will you do with the other? - it is there. And whether you choose to or not you have to move to the other. How can you stop exhalation? And if you stop exhaling, how will you be able to inhale? Look at the beauty: you exale - the moment you exhale, you have...
... feet deep down. Otherwise, what will support the tree?what will support this one hundred foot tree? And if the tree chooses just the height and tries to deny the roots, it will die. And this is what you have been doing. This is what the whole of humanity has been doing. That's why the whole of humanity has shrunk, caved-in. Everything has gone wrong because you want only high moments. People come to...
... - the same argument, because this type of argument cannot be concluded. That's why people who say: There is God, have not proved anything. And people who say: There is no God, they also have not proved anything, because God both is and is not: life and death, positive and negative, presence and absence. That's why they have not been able to prove anything. Both parties have been continuously arguing...
... would not have gone into silence that way because so much was incomplete, so many things had to be done. But I couldn't care less. One day I will die, and things will be incomplete - have I to postpone my death too? I live life as I will live death, moment to moment. If things are incomplete, let them be incomplete. Perhaps that is their destiny. Perhaps somebody else will complete them. Who am I to...
... is suffering because of your stupidity - you could have awakened at three o'clock, it was not such a big deal. And now for a few days, nobody knows... because he would always start a "fast unto death." Although he never fasted unto death he would always start a fast unto death. Then Gandhi had to be persuaded; then all the leaders of the country had to run to his ashram and say to him...
..., "Just for one man's failure you cannot punish the whole country." Then after two or three days he would be ready to take food, and that one man would be condemned by the whole country. He had been punished more than you could have imagined. Wherever he went, people would talk about him: "This is the man for whom Gandhi is fasting unto death." And if Gandhi died, they would have...
... person who could have failed me. But instead of failing me, he died, because only in his death was my life. Only by dying was the space for my life to grow created. So I am thankful to the dead person that once I was. And I will remain thankful for eternity. You cannot fail me because you are not responsible to me. You can either be fulfilled, then you will be grateful, thankful; or you can remain...
... when they are in the crowd. You cannot destroy their aloneness. Their aloneness is a crystallized phenomenon. Try to understand this. You are born alone; you die alone. These two are the greatest moments in life: birth and death. You are born alone; you die alone. The greatest moments of life - the beginning and the end - are in aloneness. When you meditate you again become alone. That's why...
... meditation is both - a death and a birth. You die to the past and you are born to the new, to the unknown. Even in love, when you think you are together, you are not together. There are two alonenesses. In real love nothing is lost. When two lovers are sitting - if they are really lovers and they don't try to possess each other and they don't try to dominate each other, because that is not love; that is...
... say it makes you a little uneasy. There are a few things which can only be done alone. Love, prayer, life, death, aesthetic experiences, blissful moments - they all come when you are alone. When you are in love you think you are with somebody. Maybe the somebody is just reflecting your aloneness, the somebody is just a mirror in which your aloneness is reflected But the deeper you move in love, the...
...," Alice told her. "Go alone." There are a few things for which one should go alone. Meditation is one of those things, God is one of those things, death is one of those things; one should go alone. But the questioner is uneasy because it is only a supposition. A supposition is a supposition; it doesn't help to understand. It hinders. "Since you gave me sannyas, I feel like I am in...
... suspicion, you will lose them. They are just happening; it is just the beginning. If suspicion comes in that will be the end of the beginning; then they will die. They are very fragile right now. You should water them with trust. Not with doubt - doubt will prove to be a poison. So don't listen to the mind. That is what sannyas is all about. Why do I insist so much for sannyas? So that when these moments...
... nothing to lose? Who can defeat a person who has nothing to lose? Who can frighten a person who has nothing to lose? By understanding this emptiness he becomes a great warrior. It is impossible to defeat him, it is impossible to rob him; it is impossible to kill him -- because he is already empty. He holds nothing in his hands. By not holding anything, he goes beyond life and death. That is the meaning...
... we go on misunderstanding reality. If reality tries to absorb us, it looks like death. So many times, almost every day, somebody or other comes to me. Meditating deeply, when reality starts absorbing you, you become frightened because it looks like death. It is like death, but it is not death. It is the door to life more abundant, to life infinite and eternal. But yes, in a way it is death -- death...
... to the past, death to you as you are. But then, what are you? Why are you so afraid of dying? You have nothing to lose -- only a miserable self, only an imprisonment will be burned down, only the structure of misery and agony will be burned down. You have nothing to lose. Why do you go on clinging to it? But you have become very familiar with it, and you become afraid. Whenever in deep meditation...
... become more intelligent. Rather than giving him answers, give him situations and challenges so that his intelligence is sharpened and he asks more deeply -- so that the question penetrates to his very core, so the question becomes a question of life and death. But that is not allowed. Parents are very much afraid, the society is very much afraid: if children are allowed to remain free, who knows? They...
... disappear before it can happen. The seed has never met the tree. The seed has to disappear and die. Only very few people have that much courage. It really needs guts to discover truth. You will die as yourself. You will certainly be born, but how can you be convinced of it? What guarantee is there? There is no guarantee. Hence, unless you are with a master who has died and is reborn, who has crucified...
... respect we call it a cauliflower. But the mental age is twelve. The real man grows to the very end. Even while he is dying, he is growing. Even the last moment of his life will still be an inquiry, a search, a learning. He will still be inquiring -- now inquiring into death. He will be fascinated: death is such an unknown phenomenon, such a mystery, far more mysterious than life itself -- how can an...
... intelligent man be afraid? If in life he has not been afraid to go into the uncharted and the unknown, at the moment of death he will be thrilled, ecstatic. Now the last moment has come: he will be entering into the darkness, the dark tunnel of death. This is the greatest adventure one can ever go on; he will be learning. A real man never believes; he learns. A real man never becomes knowledgeable; he...
... gone anywhere. But the mind is created -- and once the mind is there, paradise is lost, forgotten. One falls asleep and starts dreaming of hells, death, etcetera, etcetera. Now you will have to vomit the fruit of knowledge. You will have to vomit the mind out of your system. Once you have vomited knowledge out of your system, suddenly you will be awakened to the fact that you are in paradise. And you...
... THINGS, YOU ROAM AROUND IN THE ROUTINES OF BIRTH AND DEATH. "REALIZING THAT THOUGHTS ARE ONLY TEMPORARY APPEARANCES, YOU SHOULD LET THEM BE AS THEY START AND STOP, WITHOUT GRASPING OR REJECTING THEM. IT IS LIKE IMAGES REFLECTED IN A MIRROR; SINCE THE MIRROR IS CLEAR AND BRIGHT, IT REFLECTS WHATEVER COMES BEFORE IT, BUT DOESN'T KEEP THE IMAGES. "THE ENLIGHTENED NO-MIND IS INFINITELY BRIGHTER...
... are living in darkness. How to bring light to them? We don't know how many buddhas have remained silent. We don't know how many buddhas preceded Gautam Buddha. We have simply not been concerned about that kind of thing -- birth, death... all those things are ephemeral. But the Western attitude is outward. And because Christianity became the world's greatest religion, it has made Jesus Christ the...
... thoughts." That is also a thought. The watcher is not allowed to have even this prejudice. If they are there, he is happy. If they are not there, he is happy. He is simply unconcerned. THIS NO-MIND IS ORIGINALLY UNBORN AND UNDYING AND WITHOUT ILLUSION. NOT REALIZING THIS, THINKING THAT THOUGHTS ARE EXISTENT THINGS, YOU ROAM AROUND IN THE ROUTINES OF BIRTH AND DEATH. Bankei is saying, if you know a...
... UNDYING AND WITHOUT ILLUSION. NOT REALIZING THIS, THINKING THAT THOUGHTS ARE EXISTENT THINGS, YOU ROAM AROUND IN THE ROUTINES OF BIRTH AND DEATH. It is your mind which has been taking you through birth and death in a circle, again and again, one misery after another misery. You have to jump out of this circle -- and the only way to jump out is simply to witness. REALIZING THAT THOUGHTS ARE ONLY...
... I would die this night, suffocating, in the coat and the shoes." So he removed everything and the man tied the toy to his foot. Nasruddin started snoring immediately. Then the man had an idea..."Let us see what happens." He changed the toy, tied it to his own foot, and went to sleep. In the morning there was havoc! Nasruddin was running out in the open -- the whole hotel gathered...
... witness and a great clarity arises in you, even small changes in you are taken note of, they reflect. You don't take any care of any change, but your mirror goes on reflecting how you are becoming older, how you are moving from life to death, from death to another womb. Your mirror in its clarity will allow you to know that you are a river, not a tank of water where nothing is moving. Maneesha, the good...
... existed, elephants have existed, but they don't have any history, they don't have any autobiography. A lion comes like a vast big wave and then disappears; no trace is left behind. Ego leaves traces, footprints. If the ego wants not to die, autobiographies are written, history is created. And then comes the whole foolishness - neurosis. To create the ego, man has created a conflict, and this conflict...
..., and it will be reached - the whole earth will become a Hiroshima. Fighting leads to death, conflict ultimately leads to ultimate death; science is leading towards that. Then there is the other conflict: the inner conflict, to fight with oneself. That is what you call religion - to conquer oneself. Again the fight, and it too is destructive. Science destroys nature from the outside, and so-called...
... postponing becomes a habit. When it has become bigger the same mind will say: Still more is possible. And the same mind will go on postponing until death knocks at your door. Then you will be surprised: I have been wasting my whole life with 'oughts' and the 'is' was there. And the 'is' is beautiful. The 'is' is the only religion for Chuang Tzu. The conflict between 'is' and 'ought' is very foundational...
... a Christian. Why the cross? The human mind, the neurotic mind, worships death not life: the more dead you are, the more you can be worshipped. If you are alive then you are not worth worshipping because you are not sacrificing anything! Sacrifice can be worshipped because sacrifice means sacrificing life, a gradual crucifixion. If others crucify you, people will worship you and if you crucify...
... yourself, people will worship you more. People worship death; Jesus is worshipped because he was crucified. If you just drop that part of the story, then who is Jesus? Then it will be difficult for you to even remember because Jesus was a vagabond just like Chuang Tzu. The only difference in the story is that Chuang Tzu was never crucified and Jesus was crucified - otherwise he is the same man. You could...
... absoluteness about them. That is why Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu could live without being crucified. But one thing you have to remember. If Chuang Tzu had also been crucified, there would have been a great following. There is none. Chuang Tzu has no followers, he cannot have, because people worship death. And he refused to be a turtle, canonised, because the condition is: Be dead! Don't do this, don't to that...
... TURTLE,' SAID THE VICE CHANCELLOR, 'BETTER TO LIVE AND DRAG ITS TAIL IN THE MUD.' Of course, it is logical for the turtle: better to live and drag its tail in the mud! Chuang Tzu said: Go home, leave me here to drag my tail in the mud! Let me be just a plain turtle. Please, don't you try to canonise me, because I know your condition - first I have to die and leave a shell, a dead shell, then you can...
.... Every society has a life-span and every culture has a life-span. As a child is born and we know the child will become a youth, will become old, and will die -- seventy years, eighty years, at the most a hundred years -- every society is born, is young, becomes old, has to die. Every civilization that is born has to die. These critical moments are moments of the death of the past, the old; moments of...
... the birth of the new. You should not bother; you should not start supporting the old structure -- it is going to die. If you are supporting, you may be crushed under it. This is one possibility: that you start supporting the structure. That is not going to work. You will miss the opportunity. Then there is another possibility: you may start a social revolution to bring the new. Then, too, again you...
... is going to be born; don't bother about it. Revolution goes on happening by itself; it is a natural phenomenon. No revolutionaries are needed. You need not kill the person; he is going to die himself. If you start working for a social revolution -- you become a communist, a socialist -- you will miss. These are the two alternatives in which you can miss. Or you can use this time of crisis and be...
... transformed, use it for your individual growth. There is nothing like a critical moment in history: everything is tense and everything is intense, and everything has come to a moment, to a peak, from where the wheel will turn. Use this door, this opportunity, and be transformed. That's why my emphasis is for individual revolution. Question 3 NOWADAYS, RIGHT FROM BIRTH TILL DEATH EVERYTHING IS BEING...
... no social revolution can be a revolution. No political revolution Can be a revolution. At the most it can give you a temporary relief, but that's nothing, nothing of any worth. Unless you change, nothing changes: the human individual has to be changed. And, the second part of the question. You think that today, nowadays, right from birth till death everything is being controlled by politicians...
... never been in such suffering -- because of that sword." The king said, "Then it is better you don't go. I am in this palace, but the sword is hanging on me -- the sword of death. And the thread is thinner than this, and any moment I can die." When one remembers death, how can one possess anything? The place is there, the palace is there, the kingdom is there -- but death is more there...
... Delgado. People stopped breathing, because this was certain death. Just a foot away, Delgado pushed another button, and suddenly something happened inside and the bull stopped -- just a foot away, death just a foot away. Delgado has done it with electric instruments, but the same is the possibility: Buddha has not done anything, but it happened -- a deep nonviolence, and something triggered in the brain...
... than anything else. How can one possess? When death is there, and one remembers it, one becomes nonpossessive. Then one knows, "I can possess only myself. Death will take everything else." "When the yogi is firmly established in nonpossessiveness, there arises knowledge of the 'how' and 'wherefore' of existence." When one becomes nonpossessive, the energy is no longer moving...
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