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.... He becomes part of the junk. Slowly, slowly he starts shrinking. He starts feeling, "Now only death can relieve me of this uselessness." That's why in America poets and novelists die young. Poetry is not respected. Where money is respected, poetry can't be respected. Money is useful; of what use is poetry? When somebody becomes a poet his family feels very sad. A man was saying to me...
... die very soon. It is a strange statistic: poets, novelists, painters, peter out very soon. By the time they are forty they start petering out. Politicians remain young and vital long enough. It was not so in ancient Greece. In ancient Greece poets, philosophers, mystics lived very long. In India, in the past, yogis and meditators lived very long, but now that is not the case any more. Politicians...
... people pay attention to, becomes so important, so ego-fulfilling, that one can live just out of that ego-fulfillment. One can remain vital. Now this is a known fact: that when people retire, they die soon. What happens? They start feeling useless. Somebody was going perfectly well, and now he is sixty and he retires. And he was healthy and he was never ill, and everything was good. He was a...
..., but IT declares. Now death or no death, IT declares. I have been trying, Master. I have been trying whatsoever you have said, but IT declares." And those passionate eyes, and that ecstatic energy; and Junaid knew perfectly well that he could not be prevented. So he said, "You had better go for a pilgrimage. Go to Kaaba. But keep it to yourself. Try, contain it! Don't allow it out. There...
... can be there enjoying silence. Silence is not an experience, because there is no experiencer. It is utter silence; there is nobody. Sufis call if fana: dissolution. Buddha has called it nirvana: extinguishing the candle. All is gone and there is only nothing, a kind of no-thing-ness. You will not be able to find yourself as a self. Hence the difficulty. You will have to die to become silent - wand...
... who wants to die? We want silence also as a decoration, as a medal, so we can brag that "Not only have I got money, I have also got meditation." So that we can brag that "Not only am I rich outwardly, I am rich inwardly too.". The first interest in searching for silence arises out of the ego. And the ego itself is the barrier. So when you come in contact with a master or with an...
...;Attention! Jones, your mother is dead. Okay, men dismissed." Poor Corporal Jones collapsed, distraught. Next morning the commanding officer called the sergeant-major to his office. "Now, Sergeant-major, a word about death. When one of the men's parents passes on, goes beyond to meet his maker as it were, I think it would be better for morale if you broke the news with a little more kindness. Be...
... watchfulness, it is good. It is not your choice, it happens choicelessly. Pratito, you say: WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO BE SILENT? Because you are still clinging to your ego, afraid to die. You say: MY WORDS ARE SO MECHANICAL AND USED. Everybody's words are mechanical and used. You say: A CONTINUOUS REPETITION OF HISTORIES, THE SAME OLD PAST WHICH DOESN'T EXIST ANY MORE. Yes, that is the case with everybody...
... will not be able to take the jump. Their whole life they have lived in one way; now suddenly I am showing them a different path to be followed. It is so new: it will be uncomfortable, inconvenient, insecure. And now not much is left - they are getting old, death is coming. To risk in such a moment becomes difficult. They understand perfectly well, but they don't want to understand. They want to go on...
... mind, the old structure, the old habits, they go on persisting. They will follow you even in your death. That's exactly what happens: you only change your body, your mind continues. Your mind enters into another womb, with all its rotten past. And again you start living the same repetitive life. Don't ask me when you are going to understand me: you have understood me. Now please don't postpone it any...
... right now, and you are asking,'What will I be after death?' This is utter stupidity." Rather, go into yourself and see who you are. And if you have known yourself then there is no problem. When you die you will know whether you survive or not - why make much fuss about it right now? And how can it be decided? There is no way of deciding. Even if the whole world says that you will survive the...
... about God by people who have no inkling. Great books are written about heaven and hell, maps of heaven and hell have even been drawn by people and they don't know a thing. They have not even penetrated their own world of emotions and feelings; they have not contacted their own inner consciousness. And they are talking about distant things: the afterlife, life after death.... And they are clever people...
... bodily death, the doubt will still persist. Who knows? Everybody may be wrong - because the whole world used to believe that the earth was flat, and the whole world was wrong. The earth was not flat; now we know. The whole world has believed, down the ages, that the sun moves around the earth. Now we know, the earth moves around the sun, not vice versa. So it is not a question of how many people...
... to, not because you are convinced. You are afraid of death, so you would like to remain after death: you want to believe it, so you believe it. But you know that it is your belief; it may not be so. Deep down, the doubt will persist. And Buddha would not have answered any question that you could think belonged to philosophy. He used to say, "If I say something about the beyond, you will...
... the Himalayas, because there is no other place more beautiful to die. Death should be a celebration! Death should be in nature, under the trees and the stars and the sun and the moon. The whole life he had lived with people; now he wanted to go back to nature, and before he entered into the ultimate he wanted to die amidst trees and mountains and virgin peaks. But the king of the country ordered all...
... even about tomorrow, you don't know even about the next moment! A lover was saying to his beloved, "I am ready to die for you! Just say! I love you so much that just a hint from your side and I can commit suicide, I can sacrifice my life. I am going to get you - no power in the world can prevent me! Even if fire showers from the skies I am going to find you!" And so on, so forth. And when...
..., between summer and winter, between life and death. The third question: Question 3: BELOVED MASTER, I HAVE JUST ARRIVED FROM THE WEST - PARIS - WHERE I HAD HEARD ABOUT YOU AND READ SOME OF YOUR BOOKS. THEY TOUCHED ME VERY DEEPLY AND ONE QUESTION AROSE IN ME: HOW IS YOUR SPIRITUAL DIMENSION AND THE WORK YOU DO ON A SPIRITUAL LEVEL CAPABLE OF CONDUCTING AND ENLIGHTENING THE BEHAVIOR OF A MAN INVOLVED IN...
... is difficult; it is not easy because to die is difficult, to die is not easy. And only those who know how to die moment-to-moment know how to enjoy. The more capable you are of dying the deeper will be your joy. Intense will be the flame of it, and great will be the flowering of it. It is also difficult to enjoy, Rani, because you have so many investments in remaining miserable. Unless you see it...
... woman was still sure she'd never see the ground again. At a loss, the stewardess finally called on the highest court of appeal, 'Just trust in providence,' she said soothingly. The little old lady's eyes opened even wider, 'Is it as bad as that?' she asked. A religious old lady... But to really think of God means that death is certain. 'Is it as bad as that?' People have double faces. Their original...
... into an upstairs bedroom and he remained downstairs. After three months of complete abstinence and solitude, his will-power collapsed, and Dolph started for her bedroom. As he started to climb the stairs, he saw her coming down. 'Dear,' she said, 'I was just coming down to die.' 'I'm glad, honey,' he said, 'because I was just going up to kill you.' Don't be mad, let things be simple. There is no need...
... to kill or die. Repression will make things very complicated in your life; you will become split, schizophrenic - just celibate on the surface, and deep down just the opposite of it. Transcendence means the disappearance of the need for the other, the disappearance of the desire to get lost into a woman or into a man. And this is possible only if you have understood. And understanding comes only...
... when birds are praising the morning sun, you have also to praise God. And when trees are swaying in the wind, you have also to participate in this eternal dance, you have also to celebrate. Another day is born - forget the past, die to the past, be born anew. ... Buddha had a disciple named Subhuti. Buddha was a very fortunate Master: he had TREMENDOUSLY potential disciples. A few of them were really...
... rare beings. Subhuti is one of those rare beings who was just on the verge of Buddhahood. Just one step more and he would be a Buddha. He was coming home, every moment coming home, closer and closer to the center where ego disappears and God is born, where you die and the whole is born, when the part disappears into the whole, when the cosmos takes place and then you are no more a separate entity...
..., trembling, afraid of death. Then you are part of this eternal play of existence. He was just on the verge. He was one of the MOST silent of Buddha's disciples. He was so silent that the scriptures say that he had almost become absent. He would come and nobody would take note of him. He would pass and nobody would become aware that he had passed. He was a very silent breeze... Ordinarily you want to be...
... see - and in different states the aura changes. Now these are scientific conclusions. When you are ill you have a different aura - dull, sad, lusterless. If you are going to die within six months your aura disappears. Then your body has no light around it. And if you are happy, joyous, fulfilled, contented, then the aura grows more and more big, becomes more and more bright. Of course Kirlian...
... you start running, your running is a reality, and your heart pounding is a reality. And you may have a heart attack, you may even die - this is a reality! But the snake was not there; that was just an idea. The mystics say the world is just an idea. You are unnecessarily afraid, unnecessarily running away, unnecessarily worried - it is just an idea, a mistake. There is no world, there is only God...
... death and the negative has the positive. So, exactly in the same way, there MUST be a law which has to compensate, complement from the other extreme. That law I call the law of grace; it pulls you upwards. This experience of your fleshly body becoming quite shining like silk or jade, happens simultaneously whenever you start feeling that it is DIFFICULT TO REMAIN SITTING; ONE FEELS AS IF DRAWN UPWARD...
... like an abyss. He is like a death." And that is the definition of a Master: a Master is like death. If you come near him, too close, you will feel afraid, a trembling will take over. You will be possessed by an unknown fear, as if you are going to die. It is said that Confucius never came again to see this old man. Lao Tzu was ordinary in a way. And in another way he was the most extraordinary...
...?" Lao Tzu lived in silence. He always avoided talking about the truth that he had attained and he always rejected the idea that he should write it down for the generations to come. At the age of ninety he took leave of his disciples. He said goodbye to them, and he said, "Now I am moving towards the hills, towards the Himalayas. I am going there to get ready to die. It is good to live with...
... people, it is good to be in the world while you are living, but when one is getting nearer to death it is good to move into total aloneness, so that you move towards the original source in your absolute purity and loneliness, uncontaminated by the world." The disciples felt very, very sad, but what could they do? They followed him for a few hundred miles, but by and by Lao Tzu persuaded them to go...
... BEHIND INTERDEPEND IN COMPANY. Lao Tzu is saying that opposites are not really opposites but complementaries. Don't divide them, division is false; they are one, they interdepend. How can love exist without hate? How can compassion exist without anger? How can life exist without death? How can happiness exist without unhappiness? How is heaven possible without hell? Hell is not against heaven, they are...
... slavery, was a burden. God was crushing humanity, God was not allowing man to be himself. He had to die. There is a beautiful parable in Nietzsche's great work, THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA: A madman comes into the marketplace, starts looking here and there and searching with a lamp in the full light of the day. And people start laughing and they ask, "What are you searching for? Are you mad or something...
... rooted in phobia - in fear. And, certainly, out of fear a man can only die but cannot live. Hence millions of people's lives are nothing but slow suicide. They slowly slowly die. They never live - because wherever life comes on their way they are afraid to lose themselves. They are not yet in such trust about their being that they can take the jump, that they can plunge into life and yet be able to...
... is utterly lost - when all those mountains have disappeared you will see the crystal-clear light of your own inner diamond. For the first time you will see: in surrender you are born. Surrender is a death, death of all that is non-essential, and a resurrection, a resurrection of all that is essential, authentic, true. The third question Question 3: I HAVE SPENT ALL MY LIFE TRYING TO MEET SOMEBODY...
... WAY TO BE A LIGHT UNTO YOURSELF to surrender. Life is paradoxical: day/night, birth/death, summer/winter, love/hate, and so on ad infinitum. If a person thoroughly understands this, he will agree and not worry. In other words, he knows when he loves that soon he will hate; therefore, he will laugh when he is going uphill, and weep when he is going downhill. He will realize the paradox of life, that...
..., is the beginning of life. To miss this is to commit suicide. Then you go on destroying this moment for the moment which never comes. Then you go on destroying this life for some life which exists nowhere. You go on destroying this world for some other world - some paradise, some moksha, some nirvana. To sacrifice the present for the future is to be trapped into death. To live the moment, to live it...
... is already happening near your heart. Where your heart is beating, it is already happening. And they are looking at the sky. So they make a life of routine, dead routine. They move like dead corpses - waiting and waiting and waiting. And every day they know death is coming near: they become more and more desperate. Their whole life will turn into a mechanical routine. Really if you want to live...
... be there at all. Then there are a few people who will go on waiting and waiting, and they will die. Almost ninety-nine percent of people die this way. Their whole life has been a sheer wastage. One percent of people, sometimes, by chance, accident, become aware that they are wasting their life. Then their whole training and conditioning takes a subtle revenge. The day that they become aware they...
... trick. When I hit you, respond. Be alert. It is not to offend you; it is to awake you. And I know, the day you understand, you are also going to feel HIS BLOW WAS FAR FROM HARD ENOUGH. To seek life, to search for truth, is to be ready to die - to die to that life that you have been thinking is life. It is not. I have to destroy you in many ways; in fact, dismantle you - only then can the new arise...
... shouting against god - in a moment of unawareness. The pain may have been too much, the misery was too much. Death was just close by; he was shocked. But he regained balance. He was going to propose something. He simply said, 'Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done.' He surrendered. He died as Christ. In a single moment he was no more Jesus, he was Christ. In a single moment he was no more human, he was...
... this is the way god wants it to happen, then this is the way it has to happen. He accepted. A smile must have come to his face, and not only to his face but to his heart also. In that moment he must have expanded. Now there was nothing to shrink, to remain closed. Even death was accepted. When you accept death, you have accepted god. Everybody desires for life. When you accept life you don't accept...
... much. When you accept death you have accepted all. An enlightened person is one who has not only accepted death, who has really died. He is no more there, the house is absolutely empty. Or he is that emptiness. That emptiness is luminous, full of light. Now he moves hand and hand with god. Now wherever god takes him, to whatsoever land - uncharted, unmapped - he runs along, dancing. He is not dragged...
... tomorrows. The today is just a middle turn. If you look that way, then in space we are linked with everything. If the sun dies today we all will die. It is so far; the light takes ten minutes to reach to us. Ten minutes doesn't look such a big time, but for light to travel that much it is really big, because the light travels so fast - one hundred and eighty-six thousand miles per second. The sun is ten...
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