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Osho
... reason that I am not the same type of person as Socrates. If the choice was given to me, I certainly would not have chosen death by poisoning, because to me it is simply suicidal, against life. And my whole approach is life-affirmative. I would not have chosen to die, but somewhere deep down there must be a suicidal instinct in Socrates himself. The choice is coming from him. I am not a lover of...
....' "I am making things simple. Just give me the money. I want to smoke just to see why people are smoking and what they find in it, because I see people all around smoking against the warning of teachers, parents, doctors, priests - everybody. There must be something if they don't listen to anybody and still go on. "And they are paying for it, for their sickness, for their death to come earlier...
... those terms. You never have all, you cannot have all. There is no need to make such a division between all or none. Have as much as you can, squeeze every moment to its totality - but what is the hurry to die? Athens was a city state - he could have moved just out of the boundary of the city, and his people would have been perfectly willing to come there. In fact it would have been far easier there...
... - and that was not the purpose. The individual has to become more individual, more independent, more himself. The ego has to disappear - it is a false entity deceiving everybody as your true self. And unless the false is discredited, the true cannot appear. In the death of the false is the beginning of the true. Surrender is simply a device so that the ego can be dropped and you can become yourself...
... cannot forget, because that man was far richer, and there is no way... you can conquer the whole world but you cannot become Diogenes. And Diogenes laughed when Alexander met with him, and he told him, "You are unnecessarily feeling jealous, because whatever I have got, you can have it - just drop this race of conquering the world. You will die exhausted, spent, and you will die a beggar."...
...; And Alexander died when he was only thirty-three - spent, because continuously fighting, he burned himself out too quickly. And the day he died - because he remembered Diogenes saying, "You will die a beggar" - he told his prime minister and his generals, "This is my last will, and take care that it should be fulfilled. My hands should be hanging out of the casket. When you carry my...
.... People thought she had become mad because of the death of her husband. But she would show the statue to them: "My husband cannot die, my husband is always with me. And the one who has died, he was never my husband." She became famous. I don't think anybody has sung such beautiful songs, danced so beautifully, so ecstatically. She reached the birthplace of Krishna.... And that is the point I...
... then he must be dead: perfection means death. He cannot grow, he has nothing else to do. There is no point in being. Perfection simply means death - and I don't want existence to be dead. And it is not dead, you can see all around: it is so living, so intensively alive, that I am ready to say that the ultimate, the absolute is imperfect because it is alive, it is growing. And it will remain always...
... clings to life...a deep fear of death. And when a person comes to me he is coming, really, to die, he is coming to dissolve. I will be an abyss to him, a bottomless abyss in which he will fall and fall and fall and reach nowhere...! If you look into me you will feel dizzy. If you stare into my eyes you will see the abyss, and then the fear will grip you - and the falling and falling.... Just think of a...
... greater than you, something which you cannot manipulate, something which you cannot use as a thing; something which overwhelms, something which overpowers, something before which you are naked and impotent - something before which you simply dissolve. Mystery gives you a feeling of death; hence so much inquiry about whys - why this? why that? This is the first thing to be remembered. But don't think...
... ordinary thing. Just remain ordinary. That means not searching for anything, not seeking any achievement, really, not in any way goal-oriented, just living moment-to-moment, drifting. That's what I was saying to you - drifting like a white cloud. Your being here is rare for other reasons also, because human mind is always afraid of death. It clings to life, a lust for life is there. Even in misery it...
... - that cause and effect is the base. You create the cause and the effect follows. Life is a causal link. You put the seed in the soil and it will sprout. If the cause is there, then the tree will follow. The fire is there - you put your hand in it and it will burn. The cause is there and the effect will follow. You take poison and you will die. You arrange for the cause and then the effect follows...
... the goose is not allowed out, she will die. I can break the bottle and the goose will be out, but I don't want to break the bottle - the bottle is precious. I don't want to kill the goose either. So what would you do? This is the problem! The goose is in the head and the neck is very narrow. You can break the head, but it is precious. Or you can let the goose die, but that too cannot be allowed...
... will be broken, or something will go wrong, and that cannot be allowed. Or somebody would say: Let the goose die if the bottle is so precious. These were the only two ways; there was no other way. and the master wouldn't give any other clue. But to this disciple he bowed down and touched his feet and said: He is right - the goose is out! It has never been in. YOU ARE OUT! You have NEVER been in. The...
.... This has been the deep search of meditators for thousands of years, that once a man becomes enlightened, once a man becomes full of light and knows his own eternity, he disappears into the ultimate, into the cosmos. He cannot come again through the womb of a woman. He has no desires, he has no longings. He no longer has any of the passions which drag human souls again and again to the birth and death...
... disease and death - maybe a few moments of pleasure, which go on keeping you in the body in the hope that more pleasure... But soon one realizes, if one has intelligence, that those pleasures are very phenomenal, illusory, just made of the same stuff as dreams are made of. The moment this recognition happens, your life energy simply opens its wings and flies into the open sky of the cosmos, to dissolve...
... into the ultimate. But Gautam Buddha is an exception. In the form of a beautiful story, it is said that when Gautam Buddha died he reached the gates of paradise. There was so much ceremony to receive him, but he refused to enter. He insisted, "Until every human being passes through the gates of paradise I cannot come in. It is against my compassion." At the last moment of his death he has...
... the mysteries of existence open. That's where you come to know for the first time your eternity, your cosmic being. You are beyond life and beyond death. What is left? - just a pure witness. That is the only quality in a buddha - just to be a witness. It is the purest thing in the whole world. Watch that you are not the body. Watch: you are not the mind. What remains? - only a witness. And this...
... separate from you, then only is meeting possible. And the woman goes to heaven - of course there is a distance that has to be traveled. So there is a distance in space, and there is a distance in time, because Jesus continuously talks about the kingdom of God - but that is going to happen after this life. Everything of Jesus' religion is after death. So one thing can be said absolutely, that he is life...
...- negative, he is against this life. This life is not the right life, the right life begins after death - and that too can begin only if you believe in Jesus and his teaching, if you follow him; otherwise even after death you may go wrong: In death there is no certainty that you will enter into the kingdom of God: you can enter into the kingdom of God only if you are following Jesus. Now, this is not the...
.... But Galileo was an old man, almost on the death bed, and he was forced, and he was a man very sensible, and had an immense sense of humor. When the Pope asked him that "You will have to change the statement in your book," he said, "I will change it. But just remember, my changing the statement will not make any difference. The earth will still go around the sun." And he changed...
... IT STOPS TO GIVE MILK TO THE PERSON,' AND NOW YOU SAY, 'WHY DON'T YOU SELL, IT IS UNECONOMICAL'? A: Yes, I say it because both the points are true. I would like the cow to be still used for some economic purpose. Just keeping it in a home, feeding it, and letting it die, and you are starving yourself. You cannot feed your cow well, there should be something better which can be managed. For example...
... they are killing thirty million people without food, and they are killing themselves also by eating those thirty million people's food. Just a small understanding, just a little reasoning, and sixty million people are saved. Otherwise sixty million people are going to die. And this seems to be absolutely stupid. I don't see any reason there that it should happen. But it is happening. And if you say...
... living according to the past, without thinking of all the present discoveries, the present knowledge, and that's why we are poor, unnecessarily live in sickness, in old age, die so soon. Now in Soviet Russia there are people who have reached one hundred eighty years of age; and not one person, hundreds. There are more people who have reached one hundred fifty, and just it is a question of their food...
... with him and slowly slowly, they stopped bothering about him. He talks nonsense - who has ever heard that a day comes when existence welcomes you? that a day comes when the whole existence dances because you have found the secret of life and death, you have found the golden key to the door of God. They were all crying out to him as with one voice. Alas, if they had laughed with him as one voice, the...
... HAS IT BEEN THAT LOVE KNOWS NOT ITS OWN DEPTH UNTIL THE HOUR OF SEPARATION. This is such a tremendously significant statement: And ever has it been that loves knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. There is a beautiful story. Gautam Buddha declared that he was going to die - the same; his ship had arrived - and he asked, "Before I leave you, do you have any questions?" Only...
... will become enlightened." Ananda said, "I don't understand the arithmetic of it - forty-two years with you and I have not become enlightened, and twenty-four hours without you and I will become enlightened?" Gautam Buddha laughed and said, "Ananda, because you were so close, and you are also my elder cousin-brother, you started taking me for granted. Only separation, only my death...
... THAT LOVE KNOWS NOT ITS OWN DEPTH UNTIL THE HOUR OF SEPARATION. A master gives you his life as an opportunity to be awakened. He also gives you his death - a second, and the last opportunity for you to be awakened. Okay, Vimal? Yes, Osho. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...
.... Those sentences can become a bridge to the divine. Nobody knows who uttered those sentences first. Perhaps thousands of mystics may have uttered them again and again - not repeating, but on their own - and slowly, slowly they became condensed. Those three sentences are: Lead me from darkness to light; lead me from death to deathlessness.... They appear as if they are a prayer, but they are not a...
... prayer because the UPANISHADS don't have a god. They are invocations to existence itself. Lead me from the unreal to the real. Lead me from darkness to light. And, Lead me from death to deathlessness. In these three small sentences is contained the whole message of the East, a message that can never be out of date - which will always remain significant, meaningful, in every age, in every time. I cannot...
... conceive of any time, any age in the future when these three statements will have become out of date. When all your scriptures may have become out of date, these three statements will still remain significant. In Sanskrit they are very beautiful, because Sanskrit is a very poetic language - asto ma sat gamaya: from the false to the real; mrityorma amratam gamaya: from death to deathlessness.... Just...
... own flame. Then something of the eternal can touch you and destroy your fear of death, and can open your eyes about your own being as part of eternity. Just the other day I was telling you about the Sufi story: The man is drowning and he refuses the hand of the friend, and he refuses the hand of God - but he accepts the hand of the master. There are so many implications in this story. The hand of...
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