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Osho
... when you trust. If you doubt, they cannot exploit. So you are mounted on two horses, doubt and faith - but you are doing the impossible. You will remain constantly in anxiety and anguish, you will deteriorate. In this conflict of the two horses you will die. Some day or other there is going to be an accident - that accident will be your death: you will be finished before you have reached anywhere...
... anywhere. And this is the anxiety - that you are not reaching anywhere. Deep down this is the anguish: that life is slipping out of your hands, time is becoming less and less, death is coming near and you are not reaching anywhere. It is as if you have become a stagnant pool, just getting dryer and dryer and dying. There is no goal, no fulfillment. But why is it happening? - because you have been trying...
... protections against death, you cannot murder him so easily, he has an armor. And you would like to be free like the beggar and to be secure like an emperor - then you are mounted on two horses and it is impossible to reach anywhere. You love a person, but you want the person to behave like a thing, completely in your hands. But you cannot love a thing, because a thing is dead and cannot respond to you. So...
... strictly for dogs, and if your wife eats them she will die - they are poisonous." And after six months the wife died. One day Nasruddin admitted to the grocer, "My wife is dead." The grocer said, "I told you before that those biscuits would kill your wife." Nasruddin said, "Those biscuits didn't kill her; it was chasing behind the cars that killed her, not the biscuits!"...
... deep down you are fighting against something. But why are you fighting? - because that which you are fighting still retains meaning for you. The enemy also has meaning, just like the friend - the opposite meaning, but he carries meaning. And have you ever thought that whenever your enemy dies, something in you dies immediately? You not only suffer from the death of your friends, you also suffer from...
... the death of your enemies - you cannot remain the same. In India it happened: Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi were constant fighters against each other. Then Gandhi was murdered, and Jinnah is reported to have said, "I feel very sad. Something in me has died." Who can Jinnah fight against now? Against whom can he be the fighter? Against whom can he accept the challenge? The ego...
... enjoying their bath, donkeys are drinking, dogs are pissing and men are standing amidst them, chanting to God -- and that water is being used. It is absolutely polluted. I have heard that America will destroy itself by its nuclear weapons, Russia will follow the same route, England will die because of its hypocrisy and its seriousness and France will die from its sexuality and sensuality. The person who...
... was telling me, I asked him -- "Because I am here now in India, tell me of what India is going to die." He said, "Shitting all over the country!" India is a big toilet. This is the only freedom India has -- freedom to shit anywhere. I wonder why they have not included it in the constitution? Where they talk about freedom of speech -- although nobody has anything to say -- they...
... death may interfere. But you must have got into trouble because the sentence certainly comes from some great mystic... "but without hurry." Move instantly because it is urgent, but without hurry, because in hurry you are not together, in hurry you are always late, in hurry you forget the essentials, in hurry you need time. Just to be in a hurry you will require time -- and there is no time...
.... This moment is all and all, and the situation is urgent. You have been born without your agreement, without a contract, even without your permission; that was not in your hands. You will die without any advance information, without fixing a date and time -- that is not in your hands. Once dead you cannot complain; and not yet born you are nowhere. To whom should existence ask, "Do you want to be...
... anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent to you, it will never happen; you will die before it. Put meditation on your laundry list as the most important, urgent... number one. But meditation in your life is just at the very end of your laundry list -- and the laundry list goes on becoming bigger and bigger. And before you finish your laundry list, you are...
... of stupid games, wrestlers... they do their great job, rushing over each other. It is a question of life and death: if within two hours they don't reach first, their life is finished, within two hours they will be dead. Only once in a while it happens that two wrestlers of equal strength reach to the woman's cell at the same time; that's why twins are born. Sometimes even seven children have been...
... not be even people to bury them or burn them. The by- products of so many people -- for example, in India fifty million people will die -- their death and their rotting bodies will create millions of diseases, about which nobody is bothering at all. The Indian prime minister goes to Russia to get more military power; he goes to America to get more uranium so that he can also make nuclear weapons. It...
... ocean. The last installment in Europe also took two billion dollars... just to drown the butter, cheese and other nourishing food. At the time they drowned it, one thousand people in Ethiopia were dying of starvation every day. By the end of this century -- if this stupid politics and these ugly lines on the map don't disappear -- then half the population of the world is going to die. Of course, that...
... half will not be in the advanced, scientifically and technically equipped West; it will be in the East. I am always surprised at what the Eastern politicians are doing: I cannot deny the simple fact that they are trying to gain more nuclear weapons without bothering that their own population will die in such large numbers -- one in two. That means every house will be surrounded by corpses; there will...
... die. Be contented.... Marx was right when he said, "Religion is the opium of the people." I want to add a few more compliments to religion: it is not only opium, it is poison, it is suicide, it is murder, it is war, it is rape. It is keeping man continuously in slavery, it does not allow any freedom of thought -- and if there is no freedom of thought, consciousness has no possibility to...
... your eternal energy. It was before your death, it will be after your death. But for your mind, the first sutra: A smile is the shortest distance between people. But even smiles have disappeared. People have fallen so far apart that nobody truly smiles; all smiles have become Jimmy Carter smiles. It is very difficult to find a smile which is not plastic. Just stretching your lips from ear to ear does...
... energy which can pass through an electric wire. By further breaking it, we killed one hundred thousand people in Hiroshima. That was an electric shock! By breaking matter, by the explosion of a small atom, so much energy was produced that we could kill one hundred thousand people in Hiroshima and one hundred and twenty thousand in Nagasaki. So many people would not die by touching even the most...
... immortal. The thing that can be made will die; that which can be manufactured will be destroyed. No production can be everlasting, no structure can be of a permanent nature. All constructions are produced at the appropriate time and disappear at their destined time. In fact, the thing that is born will die. However strong it may be made, it is sure to die though it may last a little longer. Palaces...
... never been made at one end, it will never be destroyed at the other end. The self-originated has two characteristics: it is uncreated and it is indestructible. Let me tell you also that science supports this view, that whatever is made by the combination of two things will die; while the element which is made of one thing cannot be destroyed, cannot die. There is no way for it either to be destroyed...
... will not be me. I knew birth; this is not me. I shall know death also, and neither am I that. I am that which knew all these different phases. I am that which knew this long series, this long caravan of films. I am the knower, I am not that which is known. I am not that which is reflected. I am that in which reflections are made." Then the atman is pure and spotless, a clean mirror, a dirtless...
... become more like a shadow. You lose your being... you lose yourself. You are no more true, real, authentic. A Christian is already dead, and religion is concerned with a rebirth. Yes, it is a crucifixion too: the old has to die for the new to be born. But following a dead creed, dogma, a church, you never allow the old to die - and you never allow the new to be born. You never take the risk. You never...
... somebody shakes a hand with you, an energy moves into you. Each time there is a contact, you gain something. When you drop out of all contacts, out of relationship, and you become a solitary monk in a Himalayan cave, you have almost committed suicide. You are only one percent alive. Just because you breathe, you are alive. This is a sort of death: you are living at the minimum, you are not living at all...
... SAYS: THE HOME IS THE ABIDING PLACE; IN THE HOME IS REALITY... You are born in the home, you are rooted in the home; you should live in the home and you should die in the home - and there is no need to go anywhere else. God has destined it this way. Just as a tree is rooted in the earth, you are rooted in home, in love, in community. ... THE HOME HELPS TO ATTAIN HIM WHO IS REAL. SO STAY WHERE YOU ARE...
... ME; ALL CONTRADICTIONS ARE SOLVED. All contradictions are solved only when you have achieved God, never before it - because mind creates contradictions. When you have attained to God, mind is no more, and gone with the mind are all contradictions. Then day and night both are one. And life and death too - both are one. Then whether you are or you disappear makes no difference. then breathing in and...
... you will see that birth and death are two aspects of the same process. Then happiness and unhappiness are not opposites, they are joined together; like a valley and a mountain, they are together. And when you see this togetherness of life, choice stops. Then there is nothing to choose. Have you not seen it? Whenever you choose happiness, you become the victim of unhappiness; whenever you want...
... success, failure comes in; whenever you hope, frustration is waiting for you. whenever you cling to life, death comes and destroys. Have you not seen it happen every day, every moment? These are not opposites, they are together. When one sees them together, then what is there to choose? There is nothing to choose; one becomes choiceless. That's what Krishnamurti goes on saying: Be choiceless, be in a...
.... THIS IS GOOD COUNSEL AND IT IS FOR EVERYONE: AS THE GRASS IS CLEARED FOR THE FRESH ROOT, CUT DOWN DESIRE LEST DEATH AFTER DEATH CRUSH YOU AS A RIVER CRUSHES THE HELPLESS REEDS. FOR IF THE ROOTS HOLD FIRM, A FELLED TREE GROWS UP AGAIN. IF DESIRES ARE NOT UPROOTED, SORROWS GROW AGAIN IN YOU. Gautama the Buddha's most fundamental message to humanity is that man is asleep. Man is born asleep. He is not...
... great bliss if desires wither away; that you will attain to eternity, that you will not know any birth, any death anymore, that you will become part of the universal celebration that goes on and on - if you drop desire. Millions became greedy, thinking that by dropping desire they will attain all these joys. Now, this is a new desire taking root in you. The desire for God, the desire for truth, the...
... because of this that Buddha never had a great appeal to the Indian masses. Who wants peace? Everybody wants happiness - and everybody knows that happiness is followed by unhappiness, as day is followed by night, as death is followed by birth, birth is followed by death. It is a vicious circle: if you are happy, you can be certain that soon you will be unhappy; if you are unhappy, you can be certain that...
... from you LIKE DROPS OF WATER FROM A LOTUS FLOWER. So naturally they disappear, they don't leave a trace behind. THIS IS GOOD COUNSEL AND IT IS FOR EVERYONE: AS THE GRASS IS CLEARED FOR THE FRESH ROOT, CUT DOWN DESIRE LEST DEATH AFTER DEATH CRUSH YOU AS A RIVER CRUSHES THE HELPLESS REEDS. The unconscious man is a helpless victim of circumstances; he is accidental. He has no intrinsic value yet because...
... those things hanging down your front?" she asks. "These?" replies the embarrassed mother. "They are balloons, dear." "What are they for?" insists the little girl. "When you die they blow up and float you off to heaven!" "Mummy," says the little girl after a moment's thought, "I think our maid is dying. I just heard her say, 'Oh God, I am...
... give you something of the eternal, which will make you available tO God and God available to you. Meditation is the only way to transcend death. Otherwise man lives in fear, lives in trembling, anxiety and anguish. Unless man comes to know that he is not the body nor the mind but something transcendental to both he remains afraid, scared. And if you are surrounded by death, if your life is just like...
... a small island in the ocean of death, what life you can live? In such fear there is no possibility of life. Life happens only to those who know that life is eternal, that it is forever and forever, that you have been always here and you will be always here. Meditation reveals to you your Buddhahood. It will not make you Alexander the Great, it will not make you a Rockefeller or a Ford or a Morgan...
... am separate from my head. I am a witness to it." Again Alexander says, "I felt jealous of this man who is not afraid of death at all." And he died on the way back home; he did not reach home. Diogenes' prophecy was fulfilled. Just twenty-four hours' journey more and he would have reached. He told to his physicians, "I am ready to give whatsoever you want, but save me for twenty...
... few glimpses of your inner being and that will be enough, and that will convince you that all that you have done before was not really practical; it was all impractical because death will take away all that you have gathered. It is only meditation that gives you something which death cannot destroy, which is indestructible. If you are really a practical man, then go into meditation. And I am talking...
... were in 'the good old days' and always goes on fantasising that his past was tremendously beautiful. It is more or less imagination, consolation. As you become older you will be getting more and more burdened by the past and then, even before death happens, you are dead. Those who know say people die nearabout thirty, then they are buried nearabout seventy. For forty years they live a dead life. The...
... the alive. That's why people look so heavy, dragging. Their life seems to be nothing but a long story of boredom, monotony. It is not the quality of life - boredom is not the quality of life - boredom is there because life is too burdened by death, life is too burdened by the dead. And the grave goes on becoming bigger and bigger, and life is encroached from every side. The first experience, and a...
... YOURSELVES BY THE WAY? And this is an ugly story - an ugly story about Jesus' disciples, or maybe the story of all kinds of disciples that have existed in the world. The disciples of Jesus were continuously arguing about who was the greatest amongst them, who was the topmost, who was closest to Jesus. Not only that, but when Jesus would die and go to his Father who is in heaven...'When we die, who will be...
...... but they won't listen. Even on the last night when Jesus is taking leave forever, this is the last time that they will see him. Tomorrow morning he will be crucified. The last supper... but still they are arguing. They are going to lose Jesus forever. They may not be able to find such a man again for millions of lives, but they are not worried about that. They are not worried about Jesus' death...
... silent, when they remained quiet, Jesus spoke. ... FOR BY THE WAY THEY HAD DISPUTED AMONG THEMSELVES, WHO SHOULD BE THE GREATEST. Jesus knew what they were discussing. It was not necessary for Jesus to listen to what they were discussing, he knew it. That was their basic problem continuously. And as the days were coming closer to Jesus' death, they were becoming more and more agitated: 'Who will be the...
... me!' And there came a Buddhist monk. He looked down, and the man was crying - he said 'What are you looking at? DO something! I am dying.' And the Buddhist monk said 'Listen to me. Buddha has said "Birth is suffering, life is suffering, death is suffering. All is suffering." So what is the difference whether you are suffering in a well or somewhere else? Accept it. Buddha has said "...
... single stone unturned.We will force the government to make protective walls around every well!' He says 'But what is the point of that? That will take years and I will die!' And the Confucian says 'You are not the question... the society! Individuals come and go, society remains. Social reform is needed! Every well should have a wall!' This is what the communist says. He says 'If you are dying, there...
... is nothing to be worried about. If you are poor, there is nothing to be worried about. Wait. When the revolution comes and communism comes, everything will be okay.' You will say 'I will die' - that is not the point. You are not the question, the question is of society. The society has to be changed first. Only when the society is changed, the economic structure is changed, the state, the law is...
...: left turn, right turn. Doing this their whole life! And not even for a single moment do they think about what they are doing - what they are doing with their life. Is life meant for this? Is this the destiny of life? If you are singing and dancing maybe it is meaningful,. but turning left and right, doing the same march every day. just preparing for death.... How can life be just a preparation for...
... death? Brutality, violence, insensitivity is taught only then can millions of people be turned into slaves. You think you are free people? Slavery has just become more sophisticated, that's all. Slavery still exists. No society up to now has ever been a free society. All societies have been slave societies. Yes, one thing is certain: slavery changes its forms. First it was very gross, now it is very...
... with yourself? Everything has become upside down. You are living for the non-essential and you have forgotten the essential. You are living for things, and things will be taken away when death comes. Money, power, prestige - nothing is going to be with you when death comes. Only that person lives who lives in such a way that death cannot destroy anything; who creates his inner being in such a way...
... that death cannot take anything away from him; who lives in an eternity which death cannot touch; who lives in consciousness - that man only is intelligent. Otherwise everything has been turned upside down: white you see as black and black you see as white; fragrant smells you think as nauseous; sweet tastes bitter. You have settled on the artificial. Plastic flowers - yes. that's where you have...
... lived at all, you only carry a few ideas. That's what I mean by saying that you have taken the menu instead of the dinner. You may call the menu the Vedas, or you may call it the Koran, or you may call it the Bible. but it is a menu, it is not food, it cannot nourish you. So if you are feeling unnourished, if you are feeling weak. if you are feeling death-like, it is natural. Nobody else is to be...
... had committed a sin. Those who were condemning her were ready to kill her because the old law said that if a woman committed a sin adultery - then she had to be killed by throwing stones at her; she had to be stoned to death. They came to Jesus. It was also a good opportunity to judge Jesus whether this man followed the old law or was against the old law. They asked, 'What should we do?' And Jesus...
... of life, is that of a warrior. You cannot escape so easily. Where will you go? You are not a Brahmin, you are not a meditator, you are a warrior. You have to attain your reality only through yourself. SWADHARMA NIDHANAM SHREYAH it is good to die into one's own nature; PARADHARMA BHAYAVAHA it is very dangerous to follow somebody else's religion. To be a warrior is your religion. That is what you...
... to die, fortunately. But his death was unfortunate because they looked for a place to make a memorial for him, and they destroyed the bo tree. Now his marble stone stands there instead of a living bo tree. I do not forget things, but there are so many things to be said; and language is one-dimensional. It is linear - you can go only in one line - and experience is multidimensional, it moves in...
... in many things; he is the first dropout. Your hippies have not dropped much. To drop something, first you have to have it. He had it, and he had it more than any man ever had it. When he was born the astrologers said, "He should be kept absolutely unaware of misery, pain, old age, sickness, death and sannyasins." He was the child of an old, aged kingan only child, born when his father was...
... become a chakravartin, a world emperor - he will rule over the world.... But it all depends on you. If you can protect him from knowing that life consists of misery, suffering, pain, sickness, old age, death; and also from knowing that there are people who are searching for something higher than life - the sannyasins... you have to protect him." The king said, "It will not be difficult"...
... the idea that things get old, that flowers die, might provoke, might trigger some anxiety in Buddha: then what about man? Nobody who was sick was allowed to be seen by him. He had not seen anybody dead or sick or old, up to the age of twenty-nine. He was kept in such seclusion and in such luxury - music, women, wine - he was drowned in them. And the king was satisfied that now Buddha was married...
.... Buddha saw this man trembling, and he asked his charioteer, "What has happened to this man?" Now, the man who was driving the chariot was in a dilemma because the orders of the king were that Buddha should not know that anybody is sick. This man was so sick that it seemed as if he was going to fall down there and die. But Indira was helpful. He forced the charioteer to tell the truth - "...
..., suffering, anguish, sickness, old age, death. He has dropped out of life and is in search of truth, in search of finding something which is immortal: the deathless, the truth." Buddha said, "Return to the house. I have become sick, sick unto death. I have become old, old even though to all appearances I am young. But what does it matter if old age is only a few years ahead of me? - soon it is...
... going to be walking by my side. And I don't want to be like that dead man. Although I am alive for all ordinary purposes, I died with that dead man. Death is going to come; it is only a question of time, of sooner or later. It can come tomorrow; anyway, someday it is going to happen. "Tonight keep the chariot ready. I am going to be the last type of man: I am renouncing. I have not found...
... seek them, they will seek you. And particularly in Buddha's time it was really at a peak. The whole country was agog with only one thing: how to find something which transcends death. But after six years' tremendous effort - austerities, fasting and yoga postures - nothing happened. And one day.... I have been to that place and to that river; Niranjana is the name of the river, a small river near...
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