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Osho
... of his shadow, because he had read in a book that death was almost like a shadow - that when it comes, it comes like a shadow. And it became such an obsession in his mind, that he became afraid even of ordinary shadows. He would run, and he would do everything... he would try to fight - and he was a warrior! But even your sword cannot do any harm to a shadow - the shadow does not exist. He was so...
... implication that the old life is finished, the new is beginning. I want to say to you: Life is always new, only death is old. You were dead, and I have been calling you, "Lazarus, come out of the grave." And it is not late, thirty-seven years old is not late. You have wasted only half of your life; half is still there. And this half can be lived so intensely and so totally that what has gone...
...; Gautam Buddha said, "Yes, but you are puzzled because you don't know how we count age. When a man starts authentic life, a life of love and silence and meditation, when he gets initiated into the mysteries of existence - life is counted from that day. Physically this man is seventy-five years old, but it is only four years ago, that he found the door out of death into life." Ram Fakeer...
... you surprised and again surprised. A man who knows everything about the future - just think of his misery. He knows that on a particular date after thirty years, "I am going to die." He knows that on a particular date, to a certain woman, "I am going to be married." He knows what is going to happen after marriage... every day a quarrel, every day a fight. Still, people are...
... cannot be disturbed even by death. Then suddenly, all around him there is trouble of all kinds - lies, allegations - and every effort is made to prove that the majority of the world cannot be wrong. It is a strange thing that truth is not democratic. What is true is not to be decided by votes; otherwise, we could never come to any truth ever. People would vote for what is comfortable - and lies are...
... taste of disciplehood. I had no intention of becoming a master, but destiny would not allow me not to. I wanted to die before Gautam Buddha so I wouldn't have to carry this burden." He proved to be one of the great masters - of the same caliber as Gautam Buddha - and he created a lineage of great disciples and great masters. I have talked about Zen: Mahakashyap was the first - not Gautam Buddha...
... experience. I thought I must have died. I had heard that when you die, the soul goes out of the body: "So I have gone out of the body and I am dead." But I could see the body was still trying to reach the other shore, so I followed the body. That was the first time I became aware of a connection between your essential being and the body. It is connected just below the navel - two inches below the...
... navel - by something like a silver cord, a silver rope. It is not material, but it shines like silver. Each time I reached the other shore, the moment I reached the other shore my being would enter into the body. The first time it was frightening; then it became a great entertainment. When I told my parents, they said, "Someday you are going to die in that river. This is enough of a sign. Stop...
... beginning of the revolution. Only one thing you misunderstood. I have not said that sex will fall off, you will fall off -- but enlightened, don't be worried. Here people die only enlightened; otherwise they hang around, hang around, go deep and go hard... and one day they drop off. And this dropping off is really entering into eternity. You would not need any meditation. Meditation is needed for those...
..., because sex is binding you to matter. For the first time you become transcendental to your body and biology. The death of biology or chemistry or society in you is, in other words, the resurrection of your real life. I have always loved the story about Jesus. Christians have misunderstood him, as usual; they thought that it was really a factual resurrection -- bodily, biologically, psychologically...
...: you managed to live together for seventy years, and now at the very end you have come to divorce." They said, "We had to wait for all our children to die. Now we are completely free, no burden." Man's past history, Devageet, has been really not human. It can be human only if the woman and the man are no longer just sex partners; that drags them both to the very lowliest spaces. If...
... covered with flowers. Something like this is bound to happen, Devageet, if you allow the false personality that surrounds you to die. Then love and meditation are not two things -- they become one. The loving is meditative, and meditation is nothing but the radiation of love. Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, IN MY MIND I AM WRITING TO YOU ALMOST EVERY DAY. ALL THESE QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS BOIL DOWN TO THE...
...; THEY ADD TO THEIR CONFUSION AND OPPRESSION, WITH NO END TO IT. UTTERLY LOSING THE EXPEDIENT MEANS OF THE PATRIARCHS, THEY INSTRUCT OTHERS WRONGLY, TEACHING PEOPLE TO GO ON IN VAIN AND WASTEFULLY WITH BIRTH AND DEATH; FURTHERMORE, THEY TEACH PEOPLE NOT TO CARE ABOUT THIS STATE OF AFFAIRS. "SIMPLY GO ON PUTTING THINGS TO REST THIS WAY," THEY'LL SAY. "WHEN YOU'VE STOPPED FEELINGS AS THEY...
... off most of your life. To renounce all pleasures cuts off your remaining life. "Become more and more dead, and you will come closer and closer to God." This is a very strange god ... God can be synonymous with life, then it has some meaning. But God synonymous with death ...? But this is what your saints have done: they have become fossils. Although they breathe, they have died to life in...
... because of this respect for dead people, as a counterpart, there is a condemnation for living people. To be alive, fully alive, singing and dancing, rejoicing in the pleasures of existence, has become a sin according to all religions. Condensed to the essentials: life is sin and death is virtue. My own experience is just the opposite, the opposite of all these religions. Life is virtue, and the more...
... stillness, the peace, the calm, the quietude. AS THEY GO ON AND ON "ILLUMINATING" AND "KEEPING THE MIND STILL," THEY ADD TO THEIR CONFUSION AND OPPRESSION, WITH NO END TO IT. UTTERLY LOSING THE EXPEDIENT MEANS OF THE PATRIARCHS, THEY INSTRUCT OTHERS WRONGLY, TEACHING PEOPLE TO GO ON IN VAIN AND WASTEFULLY WITH BIRTH AND DEATH; FURTHERMORE, THEY TEACH PEOPLE NOT TO CARE ABOUT THIS STATE...
... absolutely satisfied. She said, "Just one thing, you have forgotten to put great diamonds around my neck, a great diamond ring, diamond bracelets." Picasso said, "But you don't have them." She said, "It doesn't matter. I have cancer, and I am not going to survive more than six weeks. And I know my husband is going to marry immediately after I die. He is just waiting for my death...
..., although he goes on saying, 'My dear, without you I will not be able to live a single moment.' I know that without me he will not be able to live a single moment. He will immediately find another woman!" Picasso said, "I don't understand the relationship of what you are saying and the diamonds." She said, "You don't understand the woman's mind. I want my portrait, after my death, to...
... experience life. Others are doing it for you. On your behalf people are loving, people are playing, people are doing all kinds of things. And what is left for you? -- just to watch. Death will not be able to take much from you -- only your television, because you don't have anything else. This is the false ego that has created a false life pattern and lifestyle. Drop everything false. Be authentic and true...
... life - the source from which you spring, just as roses spring. And it is not a question of prayer, it is a question of intense exploration inside to find your roots. And you will be surprised: your roots are the roots of the moon, of the sun, of the stars - of the whole existence. You are just a small branch of a vast tree. Once you know it, there is no fear of death. You cannot die - you belong to...
..., AND THE UNMOVING IS THE ELEMENT EARTH, AND BOTH THE MOVING AND THE UNMOVING HAVE NO NATURE OF THEIR OWN. IF YOU WANT TO CATCH IT IN THE MOVING, IT WILL GO TO THE UNMOVING... They are continuously changing places: day becoming night, night becoming day; life becoming death, death becoming life. Don't hold onto anything. It will immediately change into its other. IT IS LIKE A FISH CONCEALED IN THE...
... came up in his name for twenty-five lakh rupees. He was not at home. The wife became very much afraid when she received the message that the lottery had come up in her husband's name. She was a Christian - she ran to the church. She was afraid; "This is too much. He has not seen even twenty-five rupees together... twenty-five lakhs! He is sure to die just out of too much happiness. So I should...
... prevented him. The man said, "You have come again. Why are you continually after me? Once before I committed suicide - you are a strange fellow. I am tired of life, I don't want to live, but you saved me. It would be better if you save others. I don't want any savior, just let me die. And remember that I don't want to be revived back to life. You did it once, but now I am preventing you myself."...
.... And your maturity will soon be that you don't close the windows and doors to keep love imprisoned - that is childish. If you close all the doors and all the windows, even the freshest breeze will die, even the strongest and youngest bird will start hitting its head against the walls, running here and thither, trying to find a way out, because nobody in existence wants to be imprisoned. Even if you...
... gone. The panic of the dying ego... just let the ego die, and the panic will disapppear. And where you were full of panic you will be full of blissfulness, full of benediction. Okay, Vimal? Yes, Osho. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...
... death. A Gautam Buddha dies ultimately, you die only temporarily. Just maybe a few minutes, a few seconds, and you enter into another womb. Some idiots are always making love around the world, twenty-four hours, and you don't have to travel far away, just in the neighborhood. Around the clock millions of couples are making love, so whichever is the closest couple, here you die and there you are born...
... is the worry?" If your death becomes the ultimate death and all boundaries disappear, you will not be there, but the existence will be there. The dance will be there, the dancer will not be there. The song will be there, but the singer will not be there. This is only possible to experience by falling deeper, beyond the mind, to the very depth of your being, to the very source of life from...
... life - that you are utterly arbitrary, unnecessary, accidental - you lose all dignity. And for what are you waiting? - there is nothing to wait for, only death. This creates a great anxiety: "We are worthless... nobody needs us... existence is care-less." At that very moment D.T. Suzuki appeared on the horizon in the West. He was the first man to talk about Zen in the Western universities...
... going to die from starvation; the pope should not be listened to anymore. Now, this is pure rebellion. These one dozen bishops in Germany have formed a committee, and they are collecting more and more bishops to rebel against the pope, and they are declaring that he is not infallible. The whole of history shows that the popes and archbishops are fallible. So this whole idea of the pope being...
... you are hungry and starving you don't think of God, you don't think of hell and heaven. The first thing you think about is where to get some bread and butter. And if anybody gives you bread and butter with the condition that you have to be a Catholic, you will agree, rather than die of starvation. So poor countries are becoming more and more Catholic, more and more Christian. But in the West itself...
... say unto you that he is not a master, he is still living in duality. Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject, the day and the night. It goes on dividing things which are not divided. Neither is the day divided from the night, nor is birth divided from death. They are one energy. But mind...
... to the Himalayas or to go to the forests, twenty-five years - the last twenty-five years - absolutely devoted to meditation. If life is one hundred years, then it was divided absolutely naturally into four parts. By the time one is seventy-five he should retire into the forest. Now it is time to prepare for death, for another journey, for another experience. Life has passed away. Because of this...
... a note in brackets. The first book today is THE ART OF LIVING by Lin Yutang. It is a Chinese name. I am reminded of one of my own books, THE ART OF DYING. Lin Yutang knows nothing of life because he knows nothing of death. Although he is a Chinese, he is a corrupted Chinese, a Christian. That's what corruption is. Corruption makes you a Christian. Corruption corrupts, and you are a Christian. Lin...
... Yutang in his book THE ART OF LIVING writes beautifully about many things - except death. That means that life is not included. Life can come in only if you allow death in, not without. They are two sides of the one coin. You cannot have one side and reject the other. But he writes beautifully, artistically - he is certainly one of the greatest writers of the modern age - but whatsoever he writes is...
... centuries and centuries - for millennia - to be knocked on. That's why Jesus says, "Ask, and only for asking, it shall be given to you. Knock, and just a knock is enough." No key is needed, there is no lock. So the only key is how to face the door. Once you face the door, knock, and it opens. This sutra says: Know the filth of the body, the death of the body, the deadliness of the body; the body...
..., because everything is multi-causal. Everyone wants to go on feeding the body, because everyone is afraid of death, and food seems to be the antidote of death. So go on, but you cannot go on throwing food in the body. That's impossible. You can throw the food twice or thrice a day. But the mind says go on, go on feeing the body. One starts smoking, one feels one is feeding something without feeding. So...
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