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Osho
... amito and this is going to be your meditation: look into things but always try to find the infinite in them. Slowly slowly the idea of things disappears and there are only events, processes; you are also an event, a process, and interdependent. That interdependence is freedom - freedom from the self, freedom from the ego, and once the ego is gone one is unburdened. Then there is no death, because...
... there is nobody to die, there is no failure, because there is nobody to fail; there is no frustration because there is nobody to be frustrated. All anguish is a shadow of the ego. Shunya means nothingness, zero, non-being; unmada means delirious joy, mad joy, an explosion of joy, uncontrollable. You cannot possess it; it possesses you. The full name will mean the delirious joy of non-being. The...
... sugar cube in the tea and it has disappeared - you cannot take it out. Man is miserable, but that is his own doing. He is not born to be miserable; intrinsically, he is made for joy, for bliss. But that remains a potential to many people, and only a potential; it never becomes an actuality. People carry the seeds and die as seeds. That is the anguish of man, the agony. Unless the seed sprouts and...
... becomes a big tree and invites many birds to sing and winds to dance around it, unless the tree blooms in colour and in fragrance, there cannot be any fulfillment. Flowering is fulfillment. The flower is only a symbol of fulfillment. But millions of people simply die without ever being fulfilled, and nobody is responsible except themselves. To be initiated into sannyas is to be initiated into this...
... continue in this way, you may have to continue for another forty years or even more." It is a scientific fact that people who eat less live longer. Devaraj will certainly agree with me. It has been proven again and again, that if you feed any species more than they need, they become fat, and comfortable of course, beautiful of course, but they soon die. If you feed them only half what they need, it...
... is strange: they don't look beautiful, they are not comfortable, but they live to almost double the average age. Half the food and double the age - double the food, and half the age. So I said to the monk - I did not know these facts then - "If you don't want to be born again, why are you living? Just to die? Then why not commit suicide?" I don't think anybody had ever asked him such a...
.... Many times while swimming across the river I would think it was the end, and I would not be able to reach the other shore. It was so wide, particularly in the rainy season, miles wide. It looked almost like an ocean. In the rainy season one could not even see the other shore. When it was in full flood, that was when I would jump in, either to die or to reach the other shore. The greater probability...
... was that I would never reach the other shore. I told the Jaina monk, "In the rainy season you can jump into the river with me. We can keep company for a little while, then you can die, and I will reach the other shore. I can swim well enough." He looked at me so fiercely, so full of anger, that I had to tell him, "Remember, you will have to be born again because you are still full of...
... cover-ups, hiding your individuality. So it is perfectly good if it is happening that you are coming closer and you feel a magnetic pull. Don't resist; help it. Let those personalities die. Their death is going to become your new life, a life which will be a joy, an innocence, a luminosity, a constant dance of the heart. Just a little courage.... Don't ask what is happening. Let it happen, and see...
... for myself, but, my friend, instead of finding myself, I have disappeared into the ocean. The dewdrop has disappeared into the ocean." After almost twenty years, when he was on his deathbed, he asked his son, Kamal, "Bring the notes you have been taking of my statements. Before I die, I have to correct one thing." He said, "I have said at one place that the dewdrop has...
... sweets that you have prepared today -- the whole lot." He said, "Are you mad? Your grandfather has died. Haven't you heard?" I said, "That's why! In death -- celebration! We were great friends, you know?" He said, "I know, but your father, your uncle and the others will kill me. They will say, `HE is a rascal, but YOU... why did you give him sweets? Is this a time for...
... all feeling relieved, and all our tears were false. But you made it too open a secret, distributing sweets to the whole town and telling people that `My whole family is celebrating.'" I said, "If I was right, then you should drop these masks. Even at the death of your own father, you cannot drop your false faces. When are you going to be true?" All your personalities are absolute...
... one of the crimes. We go on judging other people, and we do the same with ourselves. We go on judging our thoughts, our actions, what is good, what is bad, what should have been done, what should not have been done; and we are constantly creating conflict and duality. Here with me you have to create a oneness, a beautiful harmony between day and night, between life and death. Between any things that...
... God do it alone -- because he can only create flat things -- nor can the devil do it alone, because he can only revolt, he is a revolutionary. First something has to be there to be revolutionary against. God is needed for the devil to revolt against, and then the dynamics start turning, and the wheel of life and death, day and night, good and bad. But life consists of opposites, remember. And don't...
... death, and the same is the nature of all ignorance. The first thing, if you meditate on darkness, that will be revealed to you is that darkness does not exist, it is there without any existence. It is more mysterious than light. It has no existence at all; rather, on the contrary, it is just an absence of light. There is no darkness anywhere, you cannot find it, it is simply an absence. It is not in...
... darkness, but remain on the boundary. In death you fall exactly to the center. Death and sleep are similar, the quality is the same. In sleep, every day, you fall into darkness, complete darkness; that means you completely become unconscious, the very opposite pole of buddhahood. A buddha is totally awakened, and every night you fall to total unawakened state, absolute darkness. In the GITA, Krishna says...
... fall into deep unconsciousness, a coma. In death you fall in a deeper coma. These are all like darkness. That's why you are afraid of darkness, because it is deathlike. And there are people who are afraid of sleep also, because sleep is also deathlike. I have come across many people who cannot sleep, and they want to sleep. And when I tried to understand their mind, I came to realize that they are...
... basically afraid. They say they would like to sleep because they feel tired, but deep down they are afraid of sleep - and that is creating the whole trouble. Ninety percent insomnia is fear of sleep; you are afraid. You are afraid of darkness; you will be afraid of sleep also, and the fear comes from the fear of death. Once you understand that these are all darknesses and your inner nature is that of...
... light, things start changing. Then there is no sleep for you, only rest; then there is no death for you, only a change of clothes, of bodies, only a change of garments. But that can happen if you realize the inner flame, your nature, your innermost being. Now we should enter the sutra: THE DARKNESS OF AGES - CANNOT SHROUD THE GLOWING SUN; - THE LONG KALPAS OF SAMSARA - NE'ER CAN HIDE THE MIND'S...
... - and immediately you have to be alerted not to become a victim of the metaphors. It is void in essence, but it contains all things. When you become totally empty, only then will you be fulfilled. When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be. Says Jesus, "If you lose yourself, you will attain. If you cling to yourself, you will lose. If you die, you will be reborn. If you can...
... penetration of the eternal into the dreamy world of time, a ray of light into the darkness of mind. Past is never fresh - cannot be, obviously. It is always dirty, it is always stinking - stinking of death, stinking of all that is rotten, stinking of tradition, stinking of corpses. The past is a cemetery. And the future is nothing but a projection of the dead past. And out of the dead past the future cannot...
... comes from the deepest core of your being - and it does not really come. Suddenly you find it has always been the case. It has always been there like an undercurrent, underground, hidden behind many many layers of memories, dreams, desires. Buddha says: Be desireless and know. Be desireless, and you will reach to the realm which is beyond birth and death, and you will enter into the unbounded. But why...
... death. People make tremendous effort, but what can you do? - all your efforts are doomed, because you don't do the fundamental thing that can bring a radical change. You don't create consciousness. That is the only radical transformation of life: from misery to bliss. You do everything else except meditate. You will earn money and you will become more and more powerful and you will have all that the...
... inside. The only thing is, you can't go in without a tie." Buddha is right: in your life, whatsoever you do, you are bound to meet misery. And as time passes, more and more misery, because life starts slipping out of your fingers, death starts overshadowing you. And you become very tense - life is slipping by and you have not arrived anywhere yet. You start running, you put all that you have at...
... stake... but only death is the culmination of what you call life. How can death be the culmination of life? If death is the culmination of life then life is utterly useless - not only useless but a very ugly joke played on man. Then God cannot be the creator - then the Devil must be in charge. And that exactly seems to be the case. The Old Testament says God created the world in six days. And then...
... COMPLEXES PROVIDED FOR THE ELDERLY ARE OFTEN DEPRESSING AND LONELY, LIKE A STATE OF LIMBO BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH. IT FEELS SO UNGRACIOUS AND INHUMAN THAT SOCIETY USES PEOPLE AND THEN CASTS THEM OFF INTO ANONYMITY. WOULD YOU PLEASE COMMENT? The problem of the elderly has arisen because man is living longer than he used to live before. All the old skeletons found in India, in China and other ancient...
... countries prove one thing: that nobody used to live more than forty years, hence the problem of the elderly never arose in those societies. It is because of this fact that the scriptures go on saying that in our country people never became old. It was not something great, it was simply that before old age they were dead. Death came before old age; now it comes after. And as a country is more advanced...
... it is a strange phenomenon: the moment somebody falls in love, many things change - his face has a different glow, his eyes become more shiny, he smiles more. He may go and dye his hair - life is taking a new beginning - get a beautiful set of teeth. He has to become a little younger. To me, love is a kind of chemistry - it is chemistry. Your body starts functioning in a different way. He will...
... to learn painting, who want to learn sculpture, who want to learn music, who want to learn dancing. They should enter the university again, a second phase of education. I have always had the idea that the first phase of education is the preparation for life and the second phase of education should be the preparation for death. You don't have any preparation for death, no education for death. This...
... he has no remembrance. Your life - which one minute is full of love, the next minute all the love disappears.... Not only that, it can turn into hate; you were ready to die for the person and the next moment you can kill the person. According to Gurdjieff, and according to those who have awakened, the whole of humanity is asleep, sleepwalkers. Things are happening but you are not the doers because...
... meaning of God is that he is the creator; then we are reduced to puppets. And if he can create us, he can destroy us at any moment. He never asked us when he created us - he is not obliged to ask us when he wants to destroy us. It is purely his whim to create or to destroy. How can you be free? You are not free even to be. Even your birth is not your freedom, nor is your death your freedom - and between...
... these two slaveries do you think your life can be freedom? God has to die if man's freedom is to be saved. The choice is clear; there is no question of any compromise. With God man will remain a slave and freedom will remain just an empty word. Only without God does freedom start having meaning. But Friedrich Nietzsche's statement is only half; nobody has tried to make it complete. It looks complete...
... God's existence is the greatest barrier to man's freedom - they removed God. But still man is not free. What I am trying to lead you to understand is that just by making God dead you cannot make man free. You will have to make one more thing dead - and that is religion. That's why I said religion also has to die; it has to follow God. And we have to create a religiousness which is godless and...
... die. There is no point of an organized religion if there is no God. For whom does the organized religion exist? The churches, the temples, the mosques, the synagogues have to disappear. And with that the rabbis and the bishops and all kinds of religious leaders become simply jobless, they become futile. But a tremendous revolution happens: man becomes utterly free. Before I can tell you the...
... helpless child from the source of his life. To the child the shock is almost like death. You are trying to give him an individuality; you are giving him his own being, his own life. The womb may be cozy, the womb may be comfortable - it is very comfortable. The scientists say we have not yet been able to create any kind of situation which is so cozy, so comfortable as the mother's womb. The child has not...
... downwards; that freedom is going to take you upwards. So I have kept the word "religiousness" just to remind you that God can die, religions can disappear, but religiousness is something interwoven into existence itself. It is the beauty of the sunrise, it is the beauty of a bird on the wing. It is the beauty of an opening lotus. It is all that is truthful, all that is sincere and authentic, all...
.... You have to decide something. That man may have given everything; he has nothing, nowhere to go. And it is ugly that when he is in a difficulty... and not an ordinary difficulty; when he is facing death you are not supporting him, so you feel guilty. But you are in a dilemma: if you keep him in the commune, then too you will feel guilty because you are risking five hundred people's lives. So you...
... worried. When I die and I go to the other world then all these people - Krishna and Moses and Mohammed and Mahavira and Buddha - they will jump upon me. They will say, "What have you been doing? Calling a man Krishna Mohammed?" Because I have heard that even in heaven they have compartments: Hindus live in one compartment, the Hindu colony, and Mohammedans live in another compartment, and they...
... is better to go to hell by your own decision rather than to go to heaven by somebody else's order, because then heaven will be just slavery. Courage means the courage to be free. Courage means freedom. And if you reduce it to the essential core it is in fact dying to the past. If you die to the past you die to the tradition you are born in, you die to the religion you are born in, you die to the...
... society you are born in, you die to the whole past, you die to history and time, and you are born anew - a new human being who belongs to no race, to no country, to no religion, but who belongs to God; a religious person but not a Christian, not a Hindu, not a Mohammedan. The fourth question: OSHO, WHAT IS YOUR ENGLISH - BRITISH OR AMERICAN? Sanjeeva, IT IS CERTAINLY NOT BRITISH. To be British is not...
...; I said, "Just to see you and to see the people who are continually coming to you from morning till night." I watched him for almost six hours, and all the people who came had come with abstract questions: "Does God exist? Is the soul a reality? Is there life beyond death?" And he was answering them. After six hours, I said to him: "You are old, and I'm too young - it...
... exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. The real question is not whether God is love - just, fair, compassionate. The real question is, do you know what love is? Do you know what justice is? Do you know what compassion is? Have you lived and tasted all these treasures of existence? The real question is not whether the soul exists or not. The real question is: Have...
... great loss. The world is full of stupid philosophies, rooted in fear and cowardliness. It would help humanity immensely if the woman is listened to, if her questions are respected and answered not just through the head but through the heart. A man's question has no need of the heart. In what way is God connected with your heart? Or life beyond death? These are all thoughts in the head. Remember this...
... the old man. The old man is closer to death... but strange - death has been worshipped, respected, and life has been crushed, destroyed in every possible way. If you know they come from you but they do not belong to you, then no parent is going to impose his religion, his politics, his ideas on the innocent child. He comes as a tabula rasa - nothing is written on him - and the parents are in such a...
... is saying just the opposite: You may strive to be like them, because they are of the future, and they are innocent. They are closer to existence than you are. For you, there is nothing except death to happen, but to them millions of things are going to happen: love is going to happen, meditation is going to happen, gratefulness is going to happen. Please resist the temptation that your child should...
... PASTURE. They simply give out of their abundance. If a tree is heavy with fruits, even if there is no one to take those fruits the tree is going to return them to the earth. It cannot go on living so heavily laden, burdened with abundance. Give out of your abundance. THEY GIVE THAT THEY MAY LIVE, FOR TO WITHHOLD IS TO PERISH. Life is a constant movement. Whenever the flow stops, there is death. All full...
... stops belong to death; life is unaware of any full stop. The really authentic religious person gives because he has; he gives because if he does not give it, it will perish, and with its perishing he will also perish. The religious person shares. It is not an obligation to anybody. On the contrary, the person who receives is obliging you because he has saved you from a burden that could have killed...
... to it, hold it, and it is going to die. It needs a continuous movement to live, just like your breathing. Try to hold it, out of fear - who knows whether it will come back or not? - and you will be committing suicide. Because you go on giving your breath... and it is a giving, whether you are aware of it or not. And the more you give, the fuller is your giving, the healthier you are, the younger...
... jogging, or swimming helps you - because you breathe deeply. But before you can breathe, you have to empty your lungs of all carbon dioxide that goes on collecting. If your lungs become full of carbon dioxide, you are dead. The trees around you here also breathe, but they breathe carbon dioxide. So when you breathe out, you are giving to the trees. They need carbon dioxide - without you, they will die...
.... And they exhale oxygen - without them, you cannot live. But in his blindness, man goes on cutting trees, not knowing that he is cutting his own life. I have observed minutely all kinds of people. The miser breathes the shallowest. He clings even to the carbon dioxide which is his death. But we have made up strange things, strange ideas of humanity, and because they have been repeated so often you...
... of people you think are religious. I don't think those words have been uttered by Gautam Buddha himself, because they were compiled after his death. And he had been speaking for forty-two years continuously, so there are so many schools - exactly thirty-two schools - with different scriptures saying that "This has been asserted by Buddha." Now there is no way to decide. But reading...
... understanding is bound to be controversial. If I see something is wrong, I am going to say it is wrong. And if I see something is right, the whole world may not agree with me, but I am going to say it is right. It is better to die for the truth than to live and compromise with lies. The fact is that forty years of freedom have been wasted by one family - the Nehru family. From Jawaharlal Nehru up to Rajiv...
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