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... absolutely silent. In fact, Christians go on opening new hospitals. If birth is natural, then death is natural. If you have disturbed the balance by preventing people from dying, then you have to accept the other part of it also. Allow people to die naturally; then let them give birth to as many children as they can. Then there will be no imbalance; nature balances itself. Just fifty years ago in India...
... persons, because they are all against birth control. They talk beautifully, they rationalize beautifully, that they are against birth control because birth control is against nature. If birth control is against nature then the pope of the Vatican should be against medicine, because that too is against nature. If a person is dying of cancer, let him die, don't give him medicine. On that point the pope is...
..., out of ten children nine were going to die within two years, only one was going to survive. Now just the opposite is the case: nine are going to survive, only one is going to die. How has it happened within fifty years' time? Modern medicine has done the miracle; it has changed the whole balance. If you accept medicine and if you accept the hospitals and if you accept that people have to be saved...
... prince came to the Zen master and he said, "I am in a hurry. My father is old, he can die any moment." The master said, "The first principle of meditation is not to be in a hurry. Impatience won't do. Get lost, get out! Never come here again! Try to find some pseudo master who will give you a mantra to chant and will console you with 'Go on chanting fifteen minutes in the morning and...
... going to die - his body may die. But you will have to forget all about your father and your kingdom if you want to learn meditation. It needs one-pointed devotion." The master was such, his impact was such, the young man decided to stay. Three years passed. The master never said a single word about meditation. The young man served the master in every possible way, waited and waited, and he was...
... totality. The second question Question 2: OSHO, WHAT MESSAGE DO YOU HAVE FOR THE WORLD SYMPOSIUM ON HUMANITY? Krishna Prem, I TEACH A NEW MAN, a new humanity, a new concept of being in the world. I proclaim HOMO NOVUS. The old man is dying, and there is no need to help it survive any more. The old man is on the deathbed: don't mourn for it - help it to die. Because only with the death of the old can the...
... divine. But the presence will be felt only later on. The first condition to be fulfilled is disappearing. It is a kind of death. Hence, Rashid, it is difficult. And conditioning has gone very deep - because you have been conditioned from the very beginning; from the first moment you were born, conditioning started. By the time you became alert, a little aware, it had already reached to the deepest core...
... now and here. Never postpone it - postponement becomes an addiction. And the most destructive thing in life is the idea of tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. One goes on postponing... and instead of tomorrow, death comes one day. And then it is too late. Rashid, no more postponing. This is the only moment you have CERTAINLY got - the next moment is not certain. This moment has to be lived in its...
... new man is coming, arriving, every day. He is in a minority, it is natural - but the new mutants have arrived, the new seeds have arrived. And this century, the end of this century, is going to see either the death of all humanity or the birth of a new human being. And it all depends on you. If you remain clinging to the old, then the old man has prepared in every way to commit a great suicide, a...
... universal suicide. The old man is ready to die; the old man has lost the zest to live. That's why all the countries are preparing for war. And the Third World War will be a total war. Nobody is going to be a winner, because nobody is going to survive it. Not only is man going to be destroyed but all life on earth. Beware! Beware of your politicians - they are all suicidal. Beware of the old conditioning...
...: this is your side of the story. I don't know the other story - her side. You must be making her afraid, also, in subtle ways threatening her. Drop all these games. Life is short, and love is valuable. Don't miss the opportunity of being in deep intimate love - because it is only love that opens the doors to prayer. The last question Question 6: IS IT TRUE THAT THREE CENTURIES AFTER JESUS' DEATH...
... CELIBACY WAS INTRODUCED INTO THE CHURCH? IS THIS GOING TO BE THE DESTINY OF EVERY CHURCH AFTER ITS MASTER'S DEATH? Geetam, UP TO NOW THAT HAS BEEN THE CASE. Remember it - it should not happen after me. It has been the case and there is every possibility that it will be the case. Why does it happen? Why, always, does every life-affirmative religion turn into a life- negative religion? There is a deep...
... kills you, nobody will say the tree is a murderer, because the consciousness of trees is not yet divided into good and bad. Even if you die under a tree, it is only a matter of coincidence; the tree is not responsible, because it harbored no wish to kill you. To enter into nature is to withdraw from the concept of good and bad, and to live in the realm of the pure and unhindered nature - where there...
... potential for. He will be crippled - hung in the middle, neither on the earth nor in the stars. His destiny has been altered, and he is destined to fail to fulfill what his destiny has now become. This is why we are so stunted. This is why we live such ugly lives, and die ugly and half-formed, with our seeds never reaching to their flowering. This is the reason, too, why there are so few Buddhas and...
... on others' paths, because they are thorns on your own path - sooner or later you will come across them. If you are wise you will never spread unhappiness, because you own unhappiness will increase in the giving, and in not giving it will fade away. If you are wise you will always share joy, because your joy will increase in the sharing, and if it is not shared it will die. Sharing is the formula...
... about is limitless, vast and beyond words. People ask, "Please define God." This is such a foolish question! Only that which is finite can be defined. And definitions are always done by linking something with its opposite. If someone asks you, "What is life?" then immediately you will have to bring death in to define it. You will find yourself saying that life is that which is not...
... death. If someone asks you, "What is light?" you will immediately have to bring in darkness, to say, "It is that which is not darkness." It is amazing that even the greatest dictionary is just like a child's plaything. Consult a dictionary and ask the meaning of matter, and it will say, "Not mind." Turn a few pages to find out what mind is, and it will say, "Not...
... Mohammedan is ready to die for his religion, a Hindu is not. How can one die for something which has only entered the intellect and has not become your life? Islam has a much more profound impact because it enters into the heart itself. And this descended onto Mohammed, whom we would call uneducated, uncivilized, illiterate. Jesus too is uneducated, the son of a carpenter, coming from a poor family. So in...
... drop only one of the banks will not be able to drop either. So it is your greed that brings you to those who know, and intellectually it is true that you understand their point. You know they are right when they say that as long as happiness is there, unhappiness will also remain. As long as you find happiness in life you will find unhappiness in death. If you are getting prestige and position, and...
... Mahavira belonged to the same man, but this is the most superficial level of understanding, and there is an inner discontinuity between the two. On the surface, yes, the names belong to the same man; and it is the man born as Vardhamana who will die as Mahavira. On the outer there is a continuity - but in the inner? In the inner one chain has ended and a new chain has begun. In the inner, the man who was...
...; It may not be true there, but it is true about religion: the disease will not end till the patient dies, because the disease and the patient are two names of the same phenomenon. The disease will only end when you die because you are the disease. The whole search of all the religions may differ in their details but their essence is the same, and that is: how the individual can disappear so that the...
... the bliss called moksha. The child is one with the mother, one with his original source. The mother's breath is his breath, the mother's blood circulation is his blood circulation, the mother's heartbeat is his heartbeat. If the mother dies the child will die. As yet, the mother's life is his life; separation has not yet happened, the ego is not yet born, the child is still in the bliss of moksha...
..., you will see that this too has become possible because of the body. A liberated individual is full of immense gratitude and thankfulness towards his body even at the time of his death. Saint Francis was dying and at the very last moment he opened his eyes and said, "Thank you so much! You have been my constant companion - nobody else would have done so much. Whether I traveled to heaven or to...
... hell, whether I did something good or bad, you have always been with me. How great is your compassion! Now that I am about to leave you forever, please accept my thanks." The disciples standing around Saint Francis could not understand with whom he was holding this conversation. One of them asked him, "Are you out of your senses, or are you going mad because death is approaching? To whom...
.... You are a lamp; the form of the lamp is your body, and you are the flame. The divine is the supreme flame, and nature is the lamp for that flame. So when you die your flame will merge into the supreme flame, and your lamp will merge into the ultimate nature. This game is unique, and this leela, the play, is fascinating! Don't move in it with the feeling of enmity. One who becomes inimical to it goes...
... wanted to say. So don't believe in them; otherwise you will cling to them - and the truth has never been in them. The truth is going with me, only the words are staying behind." The words of Thomas Aquinas are priceless, every word is a treasure, a diamond. Yet Aquinas himself declared at the time of his death that they are all rubbish. Buddha says, day after day, that whatever he is saying is all...
... a new world is born and the beginning of a new man has commenced. Vardhamana can die and Mahavira can be born - it is for this that I have called you. All this conspiracy of speaking is because you will not come without that. But speaking is not the purpose. And the same is true about all the masters - be it Jesus Christ, Buddha or Mahavira. There is a beautiful story about Mahavira. Jainas clung...
... is the same phenomenon! The poor man wants to be rich, and the rich man wants to be poor. And when Buddha started initiating disciples he called them BHIKKHUS. The word "bhikkhu" means beggar. Alexander the Great, at the last moment of his life, realized that he had wasted his life in accumulating unnecessary, nonessential things, and now death would take everything away. Suddenly he...
... child you want to be older, and when you are older you start thinking how beautiful were the days when you were a child. Everybody as he grows older starts fantasizing about his childhood; he starts decorating it in every possible way. And when he was a child he was in a hurry to grow up. When you are alive you think of the life that is after death. People come to me and say, "Tell us something...
... about what happens after death." And I am always intrigued with their question. Rather than answering them, I ask them, "First tell me what happens before death!" Nobody seems to be interested in that -- what happens before death; everybody is interested in what happens after death. And if you meet a ghost, it is absolutely certain he will tell you, "I am suffering very badly. I...
..., massacred, because the people of that place were ready to die but not to be conquered. The situation was such that the fight would continue until not a single man remained and Ashoka would be victorious only over millions of corpses. Halfway, Ashoka trembled, seeing millions of people massacred, and seeing the point that these are not the people who are going to give way. Either life in freedom, or death...
... stops. Yes, colons, semicolons, commas, everything is allowed - but a full stop absolutely no, a hundred times no, because a full stop will mean that life has come to an end, life has come to the grave. Life never comes to an end. It never terminates in death. It is an ongoing process. Hence, Badarayana's statement has to be understood very lovingly and very deeply. Each word of it is pure gold. First...
... life. And not the life of ordinary people, but people of tremendous courage, who have given you absolute alternatives: 'Either we will live in freedom or we will die in freedom. Slavery is not acceptable. You may be a great king, you may have great power, but we have at least the power to die - you cannot take it away from us.'" The country was poor. It was not in any way comparable to the vast...
... they were poor. They did not have an army, nor the technology, just courage - such a courage that they had only two simple alternatives: "We will live in freedom or we will die in freedom; we don't know any other alternative." In fact, Ashoka had become challenged in a way - he had to see how these people for centuries had been free without an army, with just human courage and dignity and...
... everything is okay. For the moment you become occupied in your singing, in your praying, in your utterances, in your whistling. You become so occupied that you forget that the night is dark, and the street is lonely and there is danger everywhere. Because of death, man goes on whistling. That whistling is metaphysics. One goes on avoiding the fact that death is. One goes on avoiding the fact that your life...
... their make-believes. They are your caves. No light enters, no fresh air comes - but you feel protected. Your beliefs almost become your death - but still you feel protected. That's why I always say that a religious man is the most courageous man. in the world. And there is no other way to live life than to be ready to face the danger of it. I have heard an anecdote: "During a yiddish play, the...
... murmured, 'Here am I dying and he asks me riddles."" Life is continuously in the hands of death. Don't waste time in words and riddles. Buddha used to say, 'I see you in great danger, and you go on wasting your time in solving riddles which have nothing to do with reality.' He used to say, 'You are like a man who has been wounded by a poisonous arrow, and who is lying down there. The physician...
... somebody who has created the world?" The fatally wounded philosopher asks, "Wait! First convince me whether life is worth saving or not."" Buddha used to tell this story again and again, and he used to say, 'When I see you, I see the same man in you." Your life is fleeting. The water of life is slipping through your fingers - any moment and death may strike - and you are trying...
... to solve metaphysical puzzles? - Who created the world? Whether anybody created it or not? Who is god? What is his form? People go on constantly discussing, debating. It seems they are avoiding something through these discussions. They are avoiding existence. They are trying to remain occupied in something so that the reality of life and death is not encountered. I have heard one story. It is...
... almost at the verge of death - bleeding, dying, as if he had been attacked very severely - wounds all over, blood flowing, soaked in his own blood. The priest was in a hurry; he had to reach the temple in time, there must be people waiting. But he was a man of morality - I will not say of purity: he was a man of morality. He pondered what to do. He calculated and then he thought, "It is better to...
... help this man who is dying. This is what Jesus has said. It is better to forget the temple, the worshippers; they can wait a little. But this man has to be helped immediately, otherwise he will die." So he went closer to the man, but the moment he saw his face he was scared. This face looked familiar, very evil-looking. Then he suddenly remembered that in his temple there is a picture of the...
... Devil - and this is the man. This is the Devil, nobody else! So he started running towards the temple. The Devil called out; he said, "Priest, listen! If I die you will repent forever. Because if I die, if evil dies, where will your God be? If the bad dies, how will you know what is good? You exist because of me. Think it over!" The priest stopped. The Devil was right: if the Devil dies...
... completely forgotten that you have come out of it. And you have completely disguised the fact that when the sex energy is finished in you, you will die. It is sex energy throbbing in you which is life. That's why a young man is more alive, and an old man is less alive. What is the difference between a young man and an old man? In young men the sex energy is in flood. In the old man the supply has...
... HIM THE STORY, APOLOGIZE AT GREAT LENGTH, ASK HIS FORGIVENESS, AND GET THE CHILD BACK. AS THE MASTER WILLINGLY YIELDED THE CHILD HE SAID, "IS THAT SO?" In misery, in happiness, the sage remains the same. Respected, insulted, the sage remains the same. In life, in death, the sage remains the same. He again simply said the same three words: "Is that so?" Again noncommittal, again...
... hours! Then again a point comes when you feel, "If I go on jogging now, I am going to fall down and die." It is not just tiredness - it is almost death. First it was tiredness, now it is almost like death. This is the third layer in you, which is vast. If you continue and you say, "Okay, if death comes it is okay, but I am not going to stop," the third layer opens up, and you have...
... never cold. They don't even mention cool, because to the people of Tibet even cool is not acceptable. It has to be warm. In Tibetan scriptures it says, "You must take at least one bath per year." When the Dalai Lama and his people started escaping from Tibet to India, many of them came to see me. Habits die hard: they were not taking baths or showers, even in India, and they were using the...
... in the third layer you can cause the death of somebody. If you trust yourself, I can give you the method to go into the third. But then, that power - are you capable of not misusing it?" He said, "No. I am capable of misusing it. And forgive me, I was wrong when from the very beginning I said to you, 'Don't say to me whether Gurdjieff is right or wrong, just give me the method' - because...
... present. It is always wavering, either towards the past or towards the future. It moves into that which is not, or into that which is not yet. Its whole skill consists in dreaming. It is rooted in the nonexistential, hence it cannot understand existence itself. It is like darkness. How can darkness comprehend light? How can death comprehend life? If death can comprehend life then death will have to be...
... beginningless and the endless. The mind exists between birth and death; it knows nothing beyond birth and beyond death. You were here before you were born, and you will be here after you are dead. The mind has a very limited existence, very momentary -- one day it comes, another day it is gone. You are forever. Have some experience of your forever-ness. But that is possible only through no-mind. No-mind is...
... think the mirror feels very repulsed if some ugly woman is there? It doesn't matter. What does it have to do with the mirror? The mirror remains unaffected; it simply goes on reflecting whatsoever is the case. If it is darkness it reflects darkness, if it is morning it reflects morning. If somebody is dead it reflects death. If a child starts giggling, laughing, jumping, it reflects that. A roseflower...
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