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Osho
... mind and its screen of failure. In failure there is still hope; in success there is no hope. You have already arrived, and your arrival is the death of all your hoping. It is a very strange experience that the only successful lovers are those who never meet, are never allowed to meet by the society, by the parents, by the situations. They are the only successful lovers; the world remembers them for...
... religious person. Those two fellows are so ungentlemanly. They should not be accepted as rabbis." The rabbi said, "You are right. I will put them right, but I'm going to put you right too! You are not dressed properly. And remember, when you die Saint Finger on the gate of heaven will show his peter at you!" The old man became angry... But you cannot get away from the repressed; it is going...
... the first thing is an understanding of the mind and the second thing is to rejoice in spontaneous growth. The young nun rushed into the mother superior's office and exclaimed, "We have got a fresh case of syphilis in the convent!" The mother superior looked up and said, "Thank God. I'm sick to death of red wine!" It is a little difficult. The nun has reported to the superior...
... mother that they have received a fresh case of syphilis. And the superior mother said, "Thank God. I'm sick to death of red wine. Always red wine, red wine... At least something fresh has come." A doctor received an urgent phone call. "Doctor," said the voice. "My wife swallowed my fountain pen two hours ago." "Why did not you phone me sooner?" asked the doctor...
.... You can go to the marketplace and purchase plastic flowers and hang those plastic flowers on the rosebush. That's what your popes are, plastic flowers. The rose is gone, the rose died. And ail real roses have to die. Only the unreal ones don't die. Plastic flowers can remain for ever, they have a kind of eternity and permanence. Real flowers can't have that permanence, otherwise they will be plastic...
... IT...? Nothing can be done and nothing SHOULD be done. Because all that will be wrong. That's how religions die and become sects, that's how everything goes false. No more of that. I am here, you are here, why bother about the future? I am knocking on your heart: listen to it right now! And you are asking 'When you are gone, who will be knocking at my heart?' And I am knocking already and you are...
... meditation. But people ARE afraid - the emptiness looks like death. So what I should suggest to Amida, I will suggest: Stuff a little more. Hoard a little more. Go on stuffing. So that you can see the foolishness of it. It seems you have not yet been able to see that the emptiness is eternal and cannot be stuffed by anything. Go on in this nightmare a little more, make it more nightmarish. People change...
... divides; division, to divide, is the nature of the mind. So we say above and below, we say up and down, we say this world and the other world, we say life and death, we say in and out, extroversion and introversion - but all these divisions are of the mind. The below is part of the above, the beginning of the above; up is nothing but the extension of down. Life and death are not two, but the same energy...
... arising is life, the same energy dissolving is death. Out and in are not two, the division is only mental. But we exist extrovertedly, we exist outside. The ordinary man exists outside, he never goes in. He moves further and further out, because desires can be fulfilled only in the outside; some object is needed to fulfill them. The object can be found in the outside, there is no object within - there...
..., jump and breathe? I will tell you one anecdote. It happened, one Zen monk, Dogen, used to tell his disciples, "Unless you die, you will not be reborn." So one stupid disciple - and there are always many - thought, "If this is the key, then I must try it." So one day he came and did just as you have said. He must have lain with closed eyes, flat out in front of the door of the...
... to you: that life is misery. Buddha says birth is misery, youth is misery, old age is misery, death is misery -- the whole of life is nothing but a long, long tragedy. If you start with attitudes you will find Buddha absolutely correct; you will be a proof of it. But I want to tell you that life is not misery, and I don't agree with Buddha at all. Life becomes a misery, but that is your doing...
..., because nobody wants to live in the thirteenth room or on the thirteenth floor. A great fear -- the idea that the number thirteen has something evil in it. And this man was working and collecting all kinds of data, and he had collected a really huge, mountainous support how many accidents happen on the thirteenth of every month, how many people die on the thirteenth, how many people commit suicide, how...
...? Then there is a rhythm: you melt, you enjoy the melting, then again you are back. It creates a rhythm, and rhythm is always richer. If you are simply dissolved forever there will be no rhythm, no music, no dance. It will really be death, not life. My whole approach is to teach you to be human. For centuries you have been told to be superhuman. I rejoice in your human-ness. To me, human-ness is...
... synthetic, plastic; it will be there forever, but because it will not be able to die it will not be alive either. You have to learn this losing yourself, then coming back to yourself and losing yourself again -- the closeness of love and the distance. Each distance in love again creates a longing to be close. If you are stuck together and you cannot separate, your love life will become a nightmare...
... normality is not enough. Just to be normal is not of any significance. It means the normal routine of life and your capacity to cope with it. It does not give you meaning, it does not give you significance. It does not give you insight into the reality of things. It does not take you beyond time, beyond death. It is at the most a helpful device for those who have gone so abnormal that they have become...
... themselves. There are people here who are good swimmers, but they are the unfortunate ones. The really fortunate ones are those who don't know even the ABC of swimming, so the moment I push them in the water they are gone down! And that is the way to reach the other shore - because only your ego drowns; you cannot. Only your ego dies; you cannot. You were never born and you will never die. No ocean can...
.... You are fortunate that you are not a good swimmer. Soon you will be drowned. And the moment you are gone, that is the greatest moment of your life, because in that very death is resurrection. The third question: Question 3: BELOVED MASTER, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY UNDERSTANDING SOMETHING IN MEDITATION? HOW DOES ONE GO ABOUT IT, AND WHAT PART OF ONESELF IS INVOLVED IN THE UNDERSTANDING? Nigel, meditation...
..., "Hey, do you know your monkey has just pissed in my beer?" "No," said the pianist, "but if you sing the words, I will play it." The fourth question: Question 4: BELOVED MASTER, IS NOT EGO A PART OF DIVINE PLAY? WHO AM I TO DROP IT? Vedant Bharti... so please don't drop it! The venerable old rabbi, known throughout the land for his wisdom, lay in a coma, very near death...
...: THIS DELIGHT ALONE IT IS UNWILLING TO FORGO. AND AS THE LESSER SURRENDERS TO THE GREATER, THAT IT MAY HAVE DELIGHT AND POWER OVER THE LEAST OF ALL, SO THE GREATEST, TOO, SURRENDERS AND FOR THE SAKE OF POWER STAKES - LIFE. THIS DEVOTION OF THE GREATEST IS TO ENCOUNTER RISK AND DANGER AND PLAY DICE FOR DEATH. AND WHERE SACRIFICE AND SERVICE AND LOVING GLANCES ARE, THERE TOO IS WILL TO BE MASTER. THERE...
.... The only death in the world is when something comes to a full stop. Life never comes to a full stop; hence, there is no death in reality. Zarathustra says, THAT YOU MAY UNDERSTAND MY TEACHING ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL, I SHALL RELATE TO YOU MY TEACHING ABOUT LIFE AND ABOUT THE NATURE OF ALL LIVING CREATURES. I HAVE FOLLOWED THE LIVING CREATURE, I HAVE FOLLOWED THE GREATEST AND THE SMALLEST PATHS, THAT I...
... sacrifice life - even the greatest stakes his life - for more power. THIS DEVOTION OF THE GREATEST IS TO ENCOUNTER RISK AND DANGER AND PLAY DICE FOR DEATH. When Edmund Hillary climbed the greatest Himalayan peak, Everest... for almost one century, hundreds of mountaineers had tried to climb it, and failed. Not only had they failed, almost seventy- five percent of the mountaineers died; they never returned...
.... I would like to tell you, he is a real man, an authentic man. He lived like a man, and he Loved living like a man. He lived in all the dimensions of manhood, and yet he is God. Now there are people, strange people... Just the other night I was reading a Christian theologian, T.L.J. Altizer. He holds that 'God has ceased to be God in becoming a man, Jesus. The incarnation is the death of God in his...
...? His logic is also the same; he denies Jesus' Godhood. To oppose this man, people like Altizer are there. They are ready to kill God to make Jesus a perfect God. Now God has disappeared into Jesus, he lives no more. These are not the right ways to bridge: either 'God has to die' or 'Jesus has not to be a God'. My understanding, my vision is totally different. God descends, not only in Jesus but in...
... there. God has become Jesus, so God cannot remain as God. To put the whole philosophy of Altizer in short, I would like to say, he is saying: God is dead, and Jesus is his son. The father need not die in the son, the father can give birth to many sons. You will be surprised, an ordinary father, a human father... How many sons can a human father give birth to, do you know? Millions. One single couple...
... body or mind, a state of negation, death, emptiness. Great trembling, fear... one is on the verge of the abyss called God. That's where Jesus found him - on the cross. That cross has to come to everybody. Jesus says everybody has to carry his cross on his shoulders. Then comes the sixth: conversion. Only when you are dead does God become alive in you. Only when the seed dies does it become a tree...
... denied me thrice!' The only person who was close to Jesus at the moment of death was Mary Magdalene, because she loved deeply. She was utterly sacrificed, dedicated to Jesus. When he was taken down from the cross she was the first woman to help. There were two other women - his mother was there and Mary Magdalene's sister was there - but not a single male disciple. Not a single one! Those wh-o had been...
... discussing all along 'Who is the greatest?' and 'Who will be next to Jesus in heaven?' they were not there. They had escaped, afraid they might be caught they might be suspected of being followers of Jesus, they might be crucified too. Only love can remain to the very end. Only love can defy death. Read these sutras very silently, and try to feel Christ through them. His message of forgiveness is one of...
... with me, who want to be not only spiritually connected with me but materially too. I am a material spiritualist, or a spiritual hedonist. Any paradox will do to describe me. The third question: Question 3: YOU SPOKE TODAY OF LOVE AND DEATH AND THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING LOVE TO PASS CONSCIOUSLY INTO DEATH. I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED DEEP LOVE, ONLY SUPERFICIAL ATTACHMENTS. I DO NOT LOVE EVEN MYSELF...
...-doing are not the enemies. You say, "YOU SPOKE TODAY OF LOVE AND DEATH AND THE IMPORTANCE OF EXPERIENCING LOVE TO PASS CONSCIOUSLY INTO DEATH. I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED DEEP LOVE - ONLY SUPERFICIAL ATTACHMENTS." The reason may be that because you called those attachments superficial, that's why you have not been able to experience deep love. You condemned. To call anything superficial is to...
... is not the waiting for God. Only death will happen. Out of this kind of waiting only death happens, nothing else. And don't postpone, don't play games. These are mind games. You say, "I KNOW THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO...." How do you know? How do you know that nothing can be done? Have you done ALL that can be done? Have you come to this point by your own experience, that nothing can be...
..., because there are always too many candidates for your place. When you die, immediately your place will be filled. All that you have in the world you have against others. They are just waiting for your death. You die - your house will be filled by some-body else, your post will be filled by somebody else, your bank balance will be in somebody else's name. They are just waiting. In fact they are getting...
..., he would say no. His yes is coming because death is there, disease is there, danger is there. So he thinks, "What am I to lose? Why not believe? Why not pray?" His prayer is bogus, his prayer is nothing but an expression of fear. Out of fear he goes to the temple and to the church and to the priest. When a man is really courageous he goes to a Master, not to a priest. He does not go to a...
... has any appeal for him. He wants to see, he wants to be, he wants to know that which is. Before death knocks him down he wants to know something of the deathless. He risks. People are bound to think, "Poor Mojud! He has gone mad!" BUT AS THERE WERE MANY CANDIDATES FOR HIS JOB, THEY SOON FORGOT HIM. And that's how it happens. If you become a sannyasin, for a few days people will think you...
... worried: "Why are you staying so long? Why don't you go?" Everybody here is interested in everybody else's death, because life is such a cut-throat competition. It is murderous competition! So soon they all forgot about him. ON THE APPOINTED DAY, MOJUD MET KHIDR, WHO SAID TO HIM, "TEAR YOUR CLOTHES AND THROW YOURSELF INTO THE STREAM. PERHAPS SOMEONE WILL SAVE YOU." The words are of...
... less. Energy is being lost and the goal has not come yet. How can you be happy? You become more and more hectic, more and more hungry for the goal. Death is coming and the goal seems to be nowhere. Naturally, as you grow in age you become more miserable. It is not death that makes you miserable and it is not old age that makes you miserable - it is the impossibility of the goal. When you are young...
... you can hope. Enough time is there, enough energy is there, the body is healthy, and you have not tasted frustration yet, and dreams look beautiful. By and by, as you grow in age, you will grow in frustration. All dreams will break somewhere. And you will go on creating new illusions because you cannot live without an illusion. Death comes close and the goal does not come - that is what misery is...
.... That is what frightens. But if you don't have any goal, you will not be frightened by death. If you don't have any goal, you will not be frightened by anything - nothing can be taken away from you. You cannot miss in the very nature of things! It is impossible to miss. The modern mind is even more addicted to goals because the modern mind is educated, civilised. The more you are educated, the more...
... solved by your meditation but will be dissolved because they will not concern you at all. One per cent remains. It has nothing to do with you or with others - that one per cent is part of existence itself. Then, if it is part of existence itself... for example, death. It is not a problem - nobody is creating it, neither you nor others. It is not a problem at all. When ninety-nine per cent of the...
... beauty and the benediction of it, and you immediately make it a desire. Then the problem arises. One per cent will remain, but that will not be seen as a problem at all. In fact, it will become something immensely valuable. It is a mystery. Birth is a mystery, love is a mystery, death is a mystery, existence is a mystery. There is no way to explain it. It cannot be explained. Its very stuff is made of...
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