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Osho
.... Things only move between manifestation and unmanifestation. They become visible, they become invisible. To become invisible is a resting place. Just as after each day you need deep sleep in the night to rejuvenate you, to make you again young and fresh, in the same way after each life you need death. Death is a deeper sleep and nothing else. After each life your body is so tired, you need a new body, a...
... was gone, the same people who have misused the word "bliss" started misusing the word "emptiness". People like Alexander, they started thinking emptiness is boring, emptiness is dull, emptiness is nothing but death. What is the point of attaining emptiness? Without knowing anything about emptiness they start condemning it. Buddhism was uprooted from India for the simple reason...
... life - life beyond death. Their whole effort is to destroy your life herenow so totally that the only shelter for you is left is in the life after death. Then you become available to the priests to be exploited. If you are happy, if you are enjoying life, if you are living each moment with pleasure, a dance in the heart and a song on the lips, if your life is a sheer festivity, you will not bother...
... conflict. If I choose the part there will always be fear and death. The part has to die, it cannot live forever; only the whole can live. If I choose the part I am choosing struggle, conflict, disharmony; I am choosing limitation, bondage, because I am choosing the finite. No, I cannot choose the part." God laughed and said, "Then why don't you choose the whole?" Hassan said, "I...
... cannot choose the whole because a whole without the parts won't be much alive." God blessed Hassan and said, "You did well. It is right." If you choose the part there will always be conflict, struggle to survive - because the part is always on the verge of dying, it is always near death. In fact it is already dead. If you choose the whole against the part you again choose a dead thing. A...
... through a very narrow passage, from the mother's womb. From the very first moment of life narrowing has started, and then the whole life, until death releases you - for entry into another hole - you feel yourself being narrowed continuously, you don't feel the expansion. And the further ahead you look, the more the hole seems to be like a tunnel. Have you ever stood in front of a tunnel and looked in...
... enough - we can enter, but then it goes on narrowing. What will happen at the other end? You will kill my bullocks! And it may be difficult even to come back if once we are caught." Death looks like the other end. The passage of the mother's womb is the beginning, and then life goes on narrowing, and then one day somebody simply disappears. That means the whole process has become so narrow you...
...,' said the bishop,'he shall be tried, charged with blasphemy and upsetting public order. If he does not recant, he may be put to death as a heretic and a corruptor. Just tell me his name and I shall arrange his arrest.' 'I wish you could realize how impressed I am by your competence,' said the Bektasi dervish.'His name is Jesus.' Even Christians would kill him if he came again. It is not only that Jews...
... expecting any miracle. Others were expecting, right; the crowd was expecting right; but Jesus was not expecting any miracle. Because a man like Jesus knows that just to be, is the greatest miracle; there is no greater miracle possible. Just to be is enough, more than enough. You cannot ask for more. Just to be alive amidst so much death, to be alive in the ocean of death is the greatest miracle. In so...
... known is going to meet the unknown, life is going to embrace death. It is natural, it is absolutely natural. It is not a doubt, it is not anything like scepticism, it is not losing trust. No, it is simply human that before one dissolves, one has a shivering, a fear. One is being uprooted, uprooted from life. It is the same fear that a child feels when he is going to be born. When the child is going to...
... moment one simply trembles and sees earth slipping away underneath, and sees oneself evaporating. And there is no answer coming. Only later on, when Jesus was resurrected, could he then understand the answer. The answer is given in terms of existence, not in terms of intellect, mind. It is not verbal. The answer is resurrection. Die totally, and then you resurrect. And that was the answer:'I have not...
..., so how can he die? God is only the accumulated fear of humanity. Man feels so insecure surrounded by death, surrounded by all kinds of anxieties and anguishes of the world, he needs psychologically a protector, somebody there above to whom he can pray in times of difficulties, on whom he can rely, who will be just and compassionate and merciful. Man has projected all these ideas on a hypothesis of...
... thing is wrong in the Bible, then people can start thinking, 'Who knows, other things may be wrong also.' We cannot allow anything to be wrong in the Bible. It is the very truth. You have to change it; otherwise face death." Galileo said, "Death I am facing anyway, but just for your joy I will change the statement. But remember, I will have to make a footnote...." The pope did not ask...
... in Nagpur. Just by coincidence, I had been coming from a lecture tour, from Chaanda and Wardha, to Nagpur, and just as I was going into Nagpur University to speak, somebody told me that Mahatma Bhagwandin was on the verge of death. So I dropped the lecture and I went to see him. He had become absolutely a skeleton. He held my hand and he told me, "It is good that you have come, and so...
... bindhi. Can't you find any other vegetable? Have I to live my whole life eating bindhi?" And Mulla Nasruddin immediately said, "There are many critics who say that bindhi is very dangerous to life, to youth. It brings many kinds of diseases. Old age comes sooner and death is a tremendously painful thing." The king said, "And up to now you have been praising it. It is because of your...
... society, they can run in the streets, they can stop cars. They can do anything. If they can hug, everything is possible. It is good they did not kiss. But they could do. And the people who write science fiction have already written that in the twenty-first century men will be slowly, slowly replaced by mechanical men, by robots - because they will never die. There is no way for them to die for the...
... have to say no, but remember: a person who cannot say yes will always remain insane. 'No' belongs to death, 'yes' belongs to life. Life is yes-saying. The deeper your yes, the deeper your surrender to existence, the greater is your bliss. Otherwise you become absolutely mechanical, like robots. And the very idea that you are special above any other race is simply nonsense. If Germany can drop this...
... and as divine as possible. Man alone - look at your question, Mario - you have been creating only wars. In three thousand years, five thousand wars ... Is life just to fight? Is life just to kill, massacre, rape? Your whole history is full of murder and you call those murderers your great men. Alexander the Great ... And you don't see that small murderers are being jailed, sentenced to death, and...
... are most afraid of death. Your doctors are more afraid of death than anybody else. They have come to medicine in search, unconsciously, of finding a way that leads beyond death. It is not a deliberate decision but if they are hypnotized and asked, the answer comes clear: they are afraid of death and they have joined the profession out of that fear. In the life of one of the emperors of India...
... is no need to be worried about it. You may not have asked, but I have been answering your questions too. It is only a question of waiting a little; if you are not going to ask, I am going to answer anyway. And don't be worried that you have fear in your heart. Everybody has fear in the heart because everybody has death in the future. It cannot be said that you can enter into discipleship only when...
... I say unto you that it is only man who has not any destiny. Dogs have; buffalos have; donkeys have. They move on certain rails. Each donkey throughout millions of years has lived the same routine life: the birth, the love affair, and the difficulties of marriage, children, old age, all hopes shattered, all dreams unfulfilled, and the darkness of death. All the donkeys have lived that way, they are...
... world so many things are happening, but nothing happens to her: no accident, no hijacking, nobody elopes with her.... She seems to be accident-proof!" And the same is what she goes on thinking, "This old foggy-head - how long am I going to suffer with him? Is he going to die or not." But once the old foggy-head dies then she suddenly feels a tremendous vacuum intolerable. The same...
... any destiny. Consciousness has freedom. Destiny is just the opposite of freedom; that is its implication. Destiny means you are a born slave. Even before you were born your stamp of slavery was completely sealed; you were finished before you were born. That's the meaning of destiny as far as implication is concerned. In fact you were never born, because before birth death had happened; that is your...
.... This man became man because he changed some act which he was just going to commit. He proved his freedom. He was almost on the verge of throwing Bharat; but even from the last step you can come back, there is nobody to prevent you. And a man who was ready to kill his brother for the kingdom - because after his death he would be free to be the king - changed so much that he forgot all about the...
... problem. In fact, man can be the solution, not only of himself, but of the whole existence, because he is the highest peak of consciousness. He is at the topmost peak of existence; but he is in so many knots, puzzles, that he cannot figure out himself what he is, what existence is. Man lives a problematic life, and dies a problematic death. From the very beginning to the end he is just a long, long...
... sacrificed; this is simple murder." And a camel is a big animal, huge, of great power, he can simply crush you under his feet, no weapons are needed. But deep in the desert, lost in the desert, he does not resist. That is something really to be understood. The camel is graceful to the point that he can sacrifice himself. He is respectful and loving, so much so, that he is ready to die so that you can...
... start declining, their energies will start getting lower and lower - they become afraid. How are they going to live? Then suddenly they want to be married, to have a stable life, to have some profession, some job, some money. Old age is coming close - they don't want to die on the streets. It was perfectly good when they were young, they had energy enough. That energy has been burned by their...
... the horizon. And it is not just a coincidence that I come from the East. In the West the sun is always going down, it is always sunset. The sunset represents death; the sunrise is the beginning of a new life. It is not a coincidence that all that is great, beautiful, truthful, has arisen out of the East. India could not produce Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini - just inconceivable...
..., for them also to be in the same space you are in. But if sannyasins go on living for small things - the salary, the position, the power in the old rotten society - there is every possibility.... Those dead corpses are many, too many, and you will be very alone. And when death is stinking all around you, there is every possibility you will become accustomed to it, just the way others are accustomed...
... to think this is the only fragrance in the world - the stinking death, the sick, slave mind, souls chained by the past, hearts burdened with mountains that are millions of years old. It is very difficult for you to save yourself where everything is just a grave. Why live in a graveyard? Even if you are paid as a watchman for the graveyard, forget about that pay. Of course, you are great there - the...
... should not choose because your choice can change tomorrow. In fact it is going to change. Love is a changing relationship, it is not stable. Hence marriage came into existence. Marriage is the death of love. Yes, you make a beautiful samadhi, a marble samadhi, a beautiful memorial, but it is a grave whatever you call it. But why did every society around the world decide in favor of it? It can't be just...
... it, don't try to live it. You will be in a ditch, because those poets don't know that love is very fragile. They all say that love is eternal, love is permanent; that real love never dies. Absolutely wrong. The real love dies sooner than the unreal love. Unreal love can live long; it is unreal, how can it die? It is a plastic flower. If you are pretending, you can go on pretending as long as you...
... permanency be valued so much?... because life is change, flow; only death is permanent. Only in death the watch stops and remains where it has stopped. Then it does not move. But in life it goes on moving, and moving into new paths every day. And why be confined to one love? Why force yourself to be confined to one love? - because nature does not intend it so. Nature intends you to know love in as many...
... cyclone, their rootedness. Don't try to hide them in the house, don't close the windows and the doors. Of course they will be more comfortable in the house, but dead. Then the best comfort is in the grave - no worry, no problem, nobody can harm you any more; even death is impotent now. What more security, what more comfort, what more luxury can you expect? A marble grave and your name written in golden...
..., and this time don't get married. This time, fall in love and then get married. Let love be first and marriage second; this will be the right approach. Otherwise you will become pathological, unnecessarily ill and suffering. And there is no point in it. We all have to go; sooner or later you will die. Before you die, let your love flow; let somebody become happy through your love. Share it! You have...
... the energy to move faster. And the second thing that you have to do is: before you go to sleep in the night, just lie down, turn the lights off, lie down under your blanket, and feel your body is dying. Start from the toes and feel that they are dying and move slowly upwards: the legs are dying, the thighs are dying; go on moving upwards and let the whole body die. It will take at least five to...
... entering from the toes, moving upwards, filling the whole bamboo, the hollow body, and going out from the head. Five minutes of that, and then go to sleep. This will synchronize the positive and negative energy inside your body. It will synchronize your man and woman inside the body, your yin and yang, your day and night, your life and death. First life, the golden light, then death, the darkness... and...
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