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Osho
... Diogenes was the same. All that death can take away he had already renounced, so death couldn't take anything from him. He was just the same as on that river bank; here he was in this river, just the same as before. So to be nonchalant, to give himself courage and confidence, Alexander also laughed and said, "Great, wonderful! Again the meeting of the greatest emperor and the greatest beggar."...
..., because if you are the doer then the end is in your hands. The doer is always the divine, and you are just an instrument. Be concerned with the here and now, the means, and leave the end to me. I tell you, Arjuna, that these people are already dead, they are fated to die. You are not going to murder them. You are just the instrument which will reveal to them the fact that they have already been murdered...
.... As far as I can see, I see them dead. They have reached the point where death happens - you are just an instrument." Sanskrit has a beautiful word, there is no equivalent to it in English: it is NIMITTA. Nimitta means you are not the doer, you are not the cause, not even one of the causes, you are just the nimitta. It means the cause is in the hands of the divine. The divine is the doer, you...
.... You will not be angry with him. You will not say, "Why did you bring this letter to me?" Krishna said to Arjuna, "You are just like a postman, you have to deliver death to them. You are not the killer; death is from the divine. They have earned it already, so don't you worry. If you do not kill them then somebody else will deliver the letter. If this postman will not do it then...
... ordinary. Nothing is wrong with ordinariness, because in your very ordinariness you are extraordinary. Don't bother about the conditions to decide when you will celebrate. If you bother about fulfilling certain conditions, do you think that then you will celebrate? You will never celebrate, you will die a beggar. Why not right now? What are you lacking? This is my observation: if you can start right now...
... celebrate. Your parents persist in your mind. Up until the very moment of your death your father and mother follow you. Continuously they are after you, even though they be dead. Parents can be very, very destructive; up until now they have been. I am not saying that your parents are responsible, because that is not the question: their parents did the same to them. The whole structure is wrong...
... compassion. Anger should not be apart, it should be part of compassion. Hate should be part of love, and death should be part of life, pain part of pleasure, misery part of celebration, of blessing, darkness part of light. And then nothing is wrong; there is no sin. Sin should be part of virtue. Be great! Rise to your ultimate height; don't remain pigmies. If you remain pigmies you will always be...
... become a part of death? Death is just an absence. How can light become a part of darkness? Darkness is nothing but the absence of light; but darkness can be absorbed into light. Look outside -- the sun has risen. So much light is showering under the trees, small parts, fragments of shadow; nothing is wrong. A weary traveller comes and sits under a tree and is sheltered. It is hot outside, and under the...
... them? He has always been against it. He had always told me never to eat it. What has happened? What a good father!' When Gurdjieff was only nine years old, his father took a stick in his hand and he said, 'You eat the whole lot. Otherwise, I will beat you to death.' And he was a dangerous man. Tears were flowing and Gurdjieff was eating, and he had to eat the whole lot. He vomited, but his father was...
... something to it. I had to concede, seeing that tree dying every day... I have remembered you, and if anybody can save that tree, it is you. But you were not in the city." For the whole year I had been going around the country. I said, "I also feel immensely sad. If I had known that that tree would die, I would not have resigned. Just for the sake of the tree, I would have remained in the...
... university, but I was not thinking that she was going to die." Mystics have been laughed at. But remember, slowly, slowly science is coming very close to mysticism - and the last laugh is going to be that of the mystics. "HE SITS ALONE ON HILL-TOPS AND LOOKS DOWN UPON OUR CITY." TRUE IT IS THAT I HAVE CLIMBED THE HILLS AND WALKED IN REMOTE PLACES. HOW COULD I HAVE SEEN YOU SAVE FROM A GREAT...
... my death; so my body has to be preserved and kept in the chair of the president." You will be surprised - it is still there. It seems insanity knows no limits. The man is dead, has been dead for almost two hundred years, and everything from his body has been removed. To preserve it, other chemicals have been filled in the body, special treatment has been given to his skin. Still he has...
... shrunken. But he is not worried about it; he goes on presiding over the meeting in the president's chair. Nobody can sit there except him, since he is the founder and he has put in all his money. Sigmund Freud was even afraid of what was going to happen after his death, because Carl Gustav Jung seems to have different ideas, sometimes more important. So Freud expelled him from the movement of...
... giving you the idea of a flexible relationship. In fact, not relationship, only a love affair that goes on and on - and you never go to the registrar's office to get married. Unless you are far, you cannot be near. If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship - no bondage, no chains, no imprisonment. I have...
... wife, when he is dead ... who knows? She may fall in love with somebody else. He wants to keep her as his possession even after death. So the only way is -- because leaving her he cannot trust -- that she should also die with him, just to satisfy his masochistic, male chauvinistic, stupid idea of being the owner. They respected these women, they made memorials for them. I have been asking...
... existence always needs a polarity. Birth is polarized by death, love is polarized by hate, compassion is polarized by cruelty. Look around life. Everything has its polar opposite, and if you can take away the polar opposite then the other will also disappear. They can exist only together. What is a good thought and what is a bad thought? And how can you separate them? Only a teacher does not know that the...
... alive! They had to die with their husbands; they had to jump onto the funeral pyre with the dead husband. That was called the tradition of suttee. Those women who managed this suicide -- a very painful suicide -- were called great women, very religious women. But the real idea behind it was not religious; there was nothing good in it. The real idea behind it was that the man does not want that his...
...; But the truth is that man has always thought that he is the master, and the woman is the possession -- why should he die for the possession? He can have as many women as he wants. In fact, in ancient India women were sold in the marketplaces -- as they were sold all over the world -- as slaves. And you will be surprised that the great Hindu saints, sages -- because nobody looks behind the curtain...
... constantly." And being aware is not examining yourself. Being aware is simply being aloof, but alert. Whatever the mind is doing, let it do; whatever is going on in the mind, let it be. You simply be out of it. You should not be a participant -- that's all that is needed, and mind dies its own death. By your examining you are entering into the territory of the mind. And mind is such a subtle...
... insecure. To be is to be in insecurity. To be is to be in constant danger. Only the dead are secure because they cannot die any more; nothing can ever happen to them now. The more alive you are the more insecure you are. Hence many people have decided not to be alive, because a kind of deadness gives security, protection, armor. Many people have decided not to look into reality, because reality IS...
... present takes all illusions away, the present simply reveals your naked truth. And the present reveals the insecurity that life is, because life implies death. And everything that is implies that it cannot be forever, everything that is is going to be non-existential sooner or later. The flower that has bloomed in the morning is beautiful; by the evening it will be gone, the petals will wither away and...
... dangerously. The other way is of avoiding life, not of living. And that's what sannyas is all about. It is to accept the insecurity of life, it is to accept death, it is to accept that everything can disappear at any moment. Your love, your friendship, you, everything is only for the moment. The next moment the petals will wither away, all will be gone. Knowing this and yet rejoicing, knowing this and yet...
... COULD, SHOULD, WOULD, MAY, MIGHT AND IF." These are the words which belong to the world of death, not to the world of life. Life simply is, it knows nothing of should, could, would. Life simply is, it knows nothing of may, might. Life simply is, it knows nothing of ifs and buts. Live that which is, and WHATSOEVER it is. Yes, sometimes it hurts, and hurts very much. Sometimes it brings great...
... agonies, but those agonies are the stepping stones to ecstasies, and those hurts are nothing but birth pain. You have to accept the day and the night, birth and death, summer and winter. You have to accept all that life is. You cannot reject anything, you cannot make conditions on it. Your conditions won't make any difference, they will only drown you in your own illusions. Live in the is! The word...
... trinkets?" "My husband is running around with a young chippie," explained Mrs. Weissman, "and when I die, I want her to go crazy looking for the jewelry." Just look into your jealousy and you will see how it drives you crazy! Seeing it, sanity arises - just seeing it! I am not saying renounce jealousy. Those who say renounce jealousy don't understand a thing. I am saying: look...
... happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where." It is difficult to pinpoint the exact date and time when God died - at least in our consciousness - when God disappeared from our world. And with Him disappeared all poetry, and with Him disappeared all dance. With Him disappeared all that is beautiful and sacred. With Him disappeared all for which one can live and die; now we...
... don't have anything worth living or worth dying for. We are simply dragging our existence, burdened, seeing no point in it all, just carrying on somehow because the other alternative is suicide - that too seems pointless. To live seems pointless, to die seems pointless. Man is facing a tremendous flood of meaninglessness for the first time. Everything seems to be utterly insignificant, and the reason...
..., immediately transforms the ignorant into the wise one, immediately transforms the darkness into light, death into immortality. PARAS IS a metaphor for the Master. IS GHAT ANTAR PARAS MOTI... Within you exists the miracle stone. If you know how to use it everything will become gold, everything will be transformed into diamonds. ... ISEE MEN PARKHANHARA... And the one who can recognize this miracle stone is...
... thee, O Light, wherein darkness dwelleth not. Amen. The word 'amen' means, "Yes God, yes! If you want us to die, yes! If crucifixion is your will, yes! Thy kingdom come, thy will be done." That's what Kabir is saying. He is saying: I am just a shadow to you. Wherever you go I will go. I have no desire of my own. How can I have any desire of my own? I am not, you are. AS THE OWL OPENS HIS...
... the other end. Sydney Carter says: They cut me down and I leap up high; I am the life that'll never, never die. I'll live in you if you'll live in me; I am the Lord of the Dance, said he. I danced in the morning when the world was begun, And I danced in the stars and the moon and the sun, And I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth; At Bethlehem I had my birth. Dance then wherever you may...
...; KAHE KABIR HAMARA MAN LA8A, JAISE SARITA SINDH SAMAI. I have disappeared just like the river disappears in the ocean. And the day I disappeared was the greatest day. The day I died was the beginning of real life. One has to be ready to die, only then does eternal life become available. It is yours, and just for the asking. Gather courage, and don't go on missing the dance of life. Generated by...
... understand the ABC of mysticism. They have not even started the journey, and I am talking about the end of the journey. Naturally, very few -- those who are surrounded by every luxury and yet find -- a deep hollowness in themselves, a great unfulfillment, a tremendous desire to find something that defies death -- these are the people for whom I am ready, and I have methods for them. But between me and the...
... SAYS SO? A: Because the people who are around me.... It is not an established religion. I had started alone, and then people started coming and became fellow travelers; it became a big caravan. But their love gives me the authority. I don't have any power over them, but their love gives me the authority. I would not like them to become an organized religion because that is the death of the very...
... would have been possible. It is not disease. It is simply the whole metabolism losing the desire to live. Every cell of the body becomes vulnerable to all kinds of infections. And the metabolism of the body does not create antibodies to fight with them. It simply wants to die. Now if the very will to live has somewhere disappeared in the body, then there is no medicine to create will to live. You can...
... help a patient; he has a sickness but he has also a will to live. You can help him. But if he has lost the will to live, then no cure is possible. And it is not a question of his mind; it is his metabolism, his body itself has lost the desire; every cell of it is simply waiting to die; will not create any resistence; will not fight with any infection. And I call it the most dangerous because as far...
.... Abortion would have been better; birth control even more better. So there is no problem about population. Population will die out on its own accord. You cannot help. By the end of this century, the population will be five billion people. And that is the end of population. More than that: millions of people will be dying every day around the earth. So population will be cut to its right size by nature...
... lived his whole life with those twelve uneducated, illiterate boys. It was a gay company. And to me, celibacy is impossible. It is unnatural. Just two days before, one monk in Vatican itself died, died really a glorious death. He had invented a machine for masturbation. And just to give it a try, he killed himself. Some accident, short circuit, happened. God should not do such things, at least to his...
.... You can play with the word 'fire' but you cannot come close to fire itself. It will burn you, it will destroy you. But in your very destruction is the possibility of a new birth. Out of the ashes the new is going to be born. The myth of the phoenix is not a myth, it is a metaphor for man's rebirth. You have to die first to be reborn. An alive Christ is like death. A dead Christ is a consolation, a...
... he was dying, on his deathbed - he was still planning some new industries, some new enterprises - somebody asked him, 'Sir, you are dying! And the doctors say you will not survive more than a few days. They are not even certain about that; you may die today or tomorrow. Now, why? And you have been doing this your whole life. And you have so much money, more than you can spend, more than you can do...
... anything with. It is useless money. Why did you go on increasing your enterprises? For a moment Henry Ford must have stopped his planning, and said 'Listen. I cannot stop. That is impossible. Only death will stop me, I cannot stop. While I am alive I will go on and on reaching for a higher rung. I know it is meaningless but I can't stop!' When you are succeeding in the world it is difficult to stop. When...
... circumference too is okay. But without the center, only the circumference, is a kind of death. That's what has happened to man. That's why in the West so many thinkers think that life is meaningless. It is not. It is only because you have lost touch with your source from where meaning arises. It is as if a tree has lost its contact with its own roots. Now no flowers come. Now the foliage starts disappearing...
...'. THIS VERY PLACE THE LOTUS PARADISE... And once you have known your source, wherever you are, you are in the lotus paradise. THIS VERY PLACE THE LOTUS PARADISE, AND THIS VERY BODY THE BUDDHA. And whatsoever you do - WHATSOEVER, without any conditions - is the expression of truth. I have heard a beautiful story about Roshi Taji, a great Zen master. As Roshi Taji approached death, his senior disciples...
... give some details about his wife - how she looked, how old she was. He said, "One of her eyes is missing. She cannot hear, both the ears are missing. She is crippled, she cannot walk rightly, one leg is missing." And then he said, "Before I missed her almost ninety percent was missing already!" Before you die you will have died many years before. Everybody dies a post-humous death...
... lover, and in search of the right person who can love you. I have heard about one man: he was in search of a perfect wife, the ideal woman. Obviously he could never find her. He searched and searched and then became old. Then somebody asked, "For what are you waiting? Now get married! You are just on the verge of death." The man said, "But I cannot - unless to an ideal woman, a perfect...
..., AND THE SAGES. Continuously you have to throw your old skin just like a snake. Every moment it becomes old, and every moment you have to come out of it; then only can you remain alive. Otherwise it always happens that you are almost dead before you die - many years before you die. It happened once, Mulla Nasruddin came to a police station. He reported that his wife was missing, so they asked him to...
.... You can prevent this happening only if you die every moment, if you leave the past completely, jump out of it. Dust gathers, memories gather, every moment you become old. Cast off this old skin just like a snake. Come out of it. Be fresh, young again, and live in the moment. Only then will you be able to know what eternal life is. A dead man cannot know it; only a man who is alive to his full...
... have to fight with yourself to go beyond. In yoga, the world and MOKSHA, liberation - you as you are and you as you can be - are two opposite things. Suppress, fight, dissolve that which you are so that you can attain that which you can be. Going beyond is a death in yoga. You must die for your real being to be born. In the eyes of tantra, yoga is a deep suicide. You must kill your natural self...
... - your body, your instincts, your desires, everything. Tantra says accept yourself as you are. It is a deep acceptance. Do not create a gap between you and the real, between the world and NIRVANA. Do not create any gap. There is no gap for tantra; no death is needed. For your rebirth, no death is needed - rather, a transcendence. For this transcendence, use yourself. For example, sex is there, the...
...; Buddha said, "Unless I die, you will not attain." And Ananda could attain only when Buddha died. What happened to this Mahakashyap suddenly? Is Buddha partial - partial to Mahakashyap? He is not! He is flowing, constantly flowing. But you have to be a valley, a womb, to receive him. If you are above him, how can you receive? That flowing energy cannot come to you, it will miss you. So bow...
... less disturbed, adjusted to the pattern, to the society, to the family. So by going to a psychoanalyst for one, two or three years you will not get better, but you will be more adjusted. Prayer does the same thing, and priests do the same thing - they make you more adjusted. Your child has died and you are disturbed, and you go to a priest. He says, "Do not be disturbed. Only those children die...
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