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Osho
... covered with skin, then with death everything dies, nothing remains. That's why it becomes possible for an Adolf Hitler to kill six million people, without a hitch. If all people are just matter, there is no question of even thinking twice. The West has lost its soul, its interiority. Surrounded by meaninglessness, boredom, anguish, it is not finding itself. All the success of science is proving of no...
... use, because the house is full of everything, but the master of the house is missing. Here, in the East, the master is alive but the house is empty. It is difficult to rejoice with hungry stomachs, with sick bodies, with death surrounding you; it is impossible to meditate. So, unnecessarily, we have been losers. All our saints, and all our philosophers, spiritualists and materialists both, are...
... fire. The blind man could run out, but he could not see where to run, he could not see where the fire had not yet spread. The lame man could see that there are still possibilities of getting out of this fire, but he could not run out. The fire was too fast, wild, so the lame man could only see his death coming. They both realized that they needed each other. The lame man had a sudden realization...
..., "The other man can run, the blind man can run, and I can see." They forgot all their competition. In such a critical moment, when both were facing death, each necessarily forgot all stupid enmities. They created a great synthesis; they agreed that the blind man would carry the lame man on his shoulders, and they would function as one man - the lame man could see, and the blind man could run...
... went on worsening. Stalin did not want him to die immediately because, in Lenin's name, he first wanted to establish himself securely. Stalin was only the secretary of the party; his contribution to the revolution was not much, he was not a well-known figure in the nation or internationally. Lenin was the founder of the revolution, and Trotsky was the most influential leader - even Lenin was not such...
... highest inner circle of the Communist Party, called the Presidium. While he was speaking, he said, "Now I have to confess that Stalin was one of the greatest criminals. He knew only one thing: either you are for him or you are his enemy. And for the enemy, there is nothing other than death." Somebody in the back of the auditorium shouted, "You have been with him for all these forty years...
... has to declare him mad. He has to be sent into a madhouse where he will be killed; nobody will ever know what happened to him in the madhouse. Or people will be sent to Siberia where life is worse than death. Death is a rest... Siberia is not a place to live, it is a place to suffer. This has continued up to now; the revolution has utterly failed. And this was the greatest revolution as far as...
... life and death. Without knowing, your life seems to be just a desert without any oasis anywhere. You have to know; only then will your life have some significance, some meaning, some relevance, some reason to go on existing. But the disciple is only a beginning, not the end - but the right beginning. A moment comes when your passionate longing to know turns into still deeper waters. It becomes a...
... way things are supposed to be. You have to learn a new art of seeing your contentment, your peace, your silence, your happiness, not as something that you had yesterday too. You have to learn to forget completely the past. To be more exact, you have to die to the past, so that every day your peace and your contentment are fresh, ecstatic, as if you have discovered them just now. Die every moment to...
... the past and be reborn again and again. Each moment has to be a death and a resurrection. Unless you learn the art of dying and resurrecting, you will feel a little bored, because it is the same, always the same, nothing changes. Your millions of lives in the past you have lived only through changes, hoping for some excitement. Arriving you have to learn some new art; some new dimension has to open...
... throwing me out, who is going to welcome me? And I don't want to leave Athens - I love it, and I love its youth, and I love the few intelligent people in this city who have been able to understand me. I don't care about the crowd, I care about those selected people with whom I have a certain heart-to-heart communion. No, I cannot leave Athens. That will be worse than death." The judges said, "...
...;The second alternative is that you can remain in Athens, but you stop speaking, you stop teaching." Socrates, for the first time in the whole trial, laughed. He said, "You are asking more and more absurd things. What is Socrates without his teaching? What is Socrates without his truth? That's my life and my being. Please don't try to be kind to me - death is more respectful than to concede...
... to, and compromise with, anything that goes against my heart." He accepted death. The alternatives were available. Certainly there is a strength, a tremendous strength in the man. But just a glass of poison kills the man, because the poison does not take any note of who you are - an idiot or a Socrates. Faced with poison he proves to be very vulnerable. So these two things are not...
.... You are a new man, you are completely transformed. I am on the point of death; is it possible for me also to have the same eyes you have, the same strength you have? Help me, an old man who is just going to the grave any moment." The father was also initiated into sannyas. All the people who lived near Buddha knew his strength and at the same time they were all very protective of him. For an...
... for one hour every day, and then for twenty-three hours one can remain unaware, mm? That won't help, and that one hour will be false, pseudo; it cannot win against twenty-three hours of mechanicalness. One has to spread meditation all over one's life. Walking, eating, talking, listening, in whatsoever you are doing, be there in tremendous attentiveness, as if that's all, as if life and death depend...
... comfortable death. Life has to be a celebration - one should not be contented with less than that. Life has to be a dance. The other polarity is to be related to life as a poet; it is just the opposite of the scientist. To be related to life as a poet means not to bring your head in between but to be in a direct contact with life through the heart. And when the heart functions directly with life, joy arises...
...; love is enough unto itself. Any adjective to it will be a kind of falsification of it. Love is simply love - neither Catholic nor Protestant - and that's the beauty of love. It is indivisibly one. If we think of love as god, humanity becomes one. All the churches have to disappear, all the small theologies have to die for a real theology to be born - the theology of love. In the past all the...
... know. You were asking for just a small pat on the head, but that won't do! It is always so. You love a woman and you understand only when she dies, when you have lost her; and then you cry and weep. It is not because of death that you are crying and weeping; you are crying and weeping because now you see the point, and now there is no point in seeing it - she is no more. You never loved her though...
... religious mind. Then the day is good and so is the night. Then life is bliss and so is death. Just think of that moment when one can accept death too as beautifully as life.That is serenity, tranquility, silence. And only out of that silence does one become aware of that which is. Truth is reflected in that mirror of serenity. The ego creates much fuss - it keeps the mind wavering, waving. Nothing can be...
... function is only if problems are there. It is as if there is no patient in the town - doctors will die! Now, the profession of a doctor is a very paradoxical profession he helps the patients to be healthy but he is also afraid that if everybody is healthy then what is going to happen to him? So he wavers. He wants both: he wants people to be ill, he wants people to be cured by him, but he wants them to...
... to see it: it is finished! Nobody is forcing anything on you; now it is your life. You have to decide again whether to live a life based on no or to live a life based on yes. Decide! A life based on no is already poisoned because no is death, not life. Yes is life! You will have to become conscious, but it is good that the grudge has surfaced. Now don't repress it again. [A sannyasin, who was in...
... die, you shrink within yourself. You want to die, but you cannot die either. You cannot live, you cannot die; you are crushed between the two. This kind of misery does not help growth; on the contrary, it destroys all the possibilities of growth. The night becomes longer and longer, and the dawn goes on receding farther and farther. Instead of having a breakthrough, you can only have a breakdown...
... inquiry should be so intense and total... as if it is a question of life and death. If you don't find it, your life is futile and fruitless. Unless you find it, you cannot blossom and dance and sing in joy. There will not be any rejoicing, any celebration, any festivity in your life. Your life will be a dark, unending night where the sun never rises. YOUR EFFORTS TO PENETRATE INTO YOUR OWN ORIGINAL...
...: "Enough is enough - there is no point to going on earning. There is a little time before death knocks on the doors, and it will be good to rest." But before returning to Japan he thought he should go around the world to have a look before he settled in Japan. He went to Paris, and in a gambling place he risked everything that he had earned - millions of dollars, just in one go. Even the...
... something that nobody can steal away. This is something that nobody can destroy. Even death is incapable of touching it. It is your eternal treasure. From eternity to eternity, it is yours - but you never look at it. Dangai wrote: EARTH, RIVER, MOUNTAIN: SNOWFLAKES MELT IN AIR. HOW COULD I HAVE DOUBTED? WHERE IS NORTH? SOUTH? EAST? WEST? Once you know, doubt commits suicide on its own accord. Never...
... believe; let the doubt die. That is a totally different situation. When you believe, doubt remains alive - in fact, very forcibly alive. One Christian missionary, Stanley Jones, said to me, "My faith in Jesus Christ is absolute!" I said, "You simply analyze your own statement. Is not faith enough? Has it to be absolute? What is the purpose of the word 'absolute'? Faith is enough, if it is...
... aware of the gaps. That is the encounter with the divine, the encounter with the existential. Whenever there is an encounter, do not escape from it. Be with it. It will be fearful at first; it is bound to be. Whenever the unknown is encountered, fear is created because to us the unknown is death. So whenever there is a gap, you will feel death coming to you. Then be dead! Just be in it, and die...
... completely in the gap. And you will be resurrected. By dying your death in silence, life is resurrected. You are alive for the first time, really alive. So to me, meditation is not a method but a process; meditation is not a technique but an understanding. It cannot be taught; it can only be indicated. You cannot be informed about it because no information is really information. It is from the outside, and...
... think of living through artificial methods. Now, he is breathing artificially. He would have died the same day - he almost did die. Without these artificial methods he would have already been in another body, he would have entered another womb. But then I will not be available here by the time he comes. Who knows whether he will be able to find a Master or not? - and a crazy Master like me! And once...
..., Vimalkirti is perfectly beautiful. He will not need to come back again into a body; he is going awakened, he is going in the state of Buddhahood. So you all have to rejoice, dance and sing and celebrate! You have to learn how to celebrate life and how to celebrate death. Life is really not as great as death can be, but death can be great only if one achieves the fourth state, turiya. Ordinarily it is...
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