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Osho
... two minds. Listen to this small story.... One evening, Katz, a black cat who lived at Master Soen-sa's ashram, died. The seven-year-old daughter of one of Soen-sa's students was very troubled by the death. After the burial and chanting to Amida Buddha, she went to Soen-sa for an interview. Soen-sa said, 'Do you have any questions?' She said, 'Yes. What happened to Katzie? Where did he go?' Soen sa...
... why I call him a vagabond. He is never a householder. He cannot settle. Settling means death to him. He is always ready to take a risk. Risk is his love affair. But this is the right-side hemisphere. The right-side hemisphere is functioning when the child is born; the left-side hemisphere is not functioning. Then we start teaching the child - unknowingly, unscientifically. Down the ages we have...
... bread for?' asked the peasant. The Commissar answered, 'In this country by the time the train gets here a man could starve to death.' But this is how the mind functions. You are ready to commit suicide. I used to live in a house next to a professor. We were colleagues in the same university. I was very new and the first night I became a little worried because the professor and his wife started...
... is so far away and it is raining, can't you see? And I don't have any umbrella.' Mind is like that. It goes on thinking in contradictions. The young man poured out his heart's devotion on paper as he wrote to the girl of his dreams: 'Darling, I would climb the highest mountain, swim the widest stream, cross the burning desert, die at the stake for you. P.S. I will see you on Saturday - if it...
... they are dying. One of the reasons is repression, but only one. They are losing the social consciousness; they are losing the conditioning. This first layer of corrupted senses is disappearing; death is moving in. And they are becoming small children again. Small children play with their genital organs; they have not yet been corrupted. They enjoy their bodies, they love their bodies. They are...
... playful about it, it is fun. Now the man is no longer old; he is becoming younger again. Death is taking the layer away - that is one thing. Another thing is that when a man dies, for a single moment all his senses become totally alive as they would have been if they had not been corrupted. It is like a flame before a lamp goes out - the flame burns brightly, with intensity, for a single second. Exactly...
... the same happens when life is going out. For a single moment the last effort is made to live, and one burns bright with total sensitivity. Another reason: when a man is dying the circle is complete - naturally death is very close to birth. Death is very close to life; it is the very crescendo of life. Life comes out of sex energy and life is moving back into sex energy. But all our senses are...
... through inconvenience. That inconvenience is what I call TAPASHCHARYA, austerity, SADHANA. That's what it means to be initiated into a path. Always choose the real, howsoever bad and howsoever painful and howsoever destructive it looks. Even if it feels like death, choose it - and you will be benefitted by it. Never choose the comfortable the convenient, the bourgeois, other-wise you will live the life...
... for it. Before death comes become really a man. The seventh question: Question 7: BROWN HAS SAID: 'THE ULTIMATE PROBLEM IS NOT GUILT BUT THE INCAPACITY TO LIVE. THE ILLUSION OF GUILT IS NECESSARY FOR AN ANIMAL THAT CANNOT ENJOY LIFE, IN ORDER TO ORGANISE A LIFE OF NON-ENJOYMENT.' I will not agree - because man is born with the capacity to live. Everybody is born with the capacity to live - that's...
... in the future in this life, and the priest promises you something good in the other life beyond death. Both go on promising. Promises are needed by miserable people. If you are happy, you will not go to the politician and you will not go to the priest. For what? You are already happy, you are already in paradise. Then the whole profession of the priest and the politician disappears. These are the...
... this way. They will die but their child will live - and he will be just like them, just as fucked-up as they are, just as miserable as they are, just as neurotic as they are. I told the father, 'As far as I know, you have been coming to me many times, for many years, and you have been coming to me because you are miserable. And you want this small child to be just like you? Then he will be miserable...
... experience because there is no experiencer left. It is a dissolution. One disappears into it. One cannot experience it. One is not found. One simply dissolves. Just like a drop of water falls into the ocean and disappears into the ocean.... Is this an experience? It is death, it is disappearance. And yet the drop has become the ocean itself. When a man disappears into God like a drop disappearing in the...
..., the thinking, the logic. Yes, if you go into feelings with logic.... Logic is a chronic systematizer; it is obsessed with systematization. Wherever it goes, it systematizes, it immediately starts categorizing. It cannot allow chaos - chaos seems to be like a death. It immediately starts putting things in order. Who is this one, Parad, who goes deep into the feelings? About whom are you talking? You...
... time is fleeting. You will die in the middle of your journey - everybody dies in the middle of the journey." Alexander said, "I will keep it always in mind, but right now I cannot do it. But many many thanks for your advice." And Alexander died in the middle. He never reached back home, he died on the way. When he was moving back from India, he died on the way. And that day he...
... are committed to a question, when you are involved in it, when it is a life-and-death problem to you, then only will you understand the answer. Otherwise the answer will be cheap, and it won't go deep in you. So never ask a question if you cannot sign your question. And secondly, you have not mentioned who this old sannyasin is. You should mention it - because here I am working with individuals, not...
... few days you are utterly bored and you cannot escape. There is no way to escape. You can't go to the movie, you can't look at the TV; you can't have anything that can help you to avoid it. You are thrown into it again and again. Great courage is needed to face it. It is almost like death; in fact, far more hard than death, because death comes when you become unconscious. And you are stirring ALL...
... opposite polarity. My sannyasins are a totally opposite polarity from being a Catholic nun or monk. Now, here, she can relax. But the conditioning is there and it will go, slowly slowly. Don't co-operate with that conditioning. It is on the way, it is dying. Let it die. And once the nun has disappeared from Chintana's con-sciousness, she will bloom into a beautiful flower. And the day is not far off...
... live only one more life, I cannot believe you or trust you." You may not know anything about reincarnation; you can simply say, "I don't know about it, so how can I believe or disbelieve?" You can remain open. But you will not miss any opportunity of saying no. Now, this sannyasin must be waiting for something to say no to. Do you know what it means to die from the sixth center? Have...
... person to tell you to believe in anything - but there is no need to say no either; you can simply remain open, you can say, "I will see what happens when I die." And then he says, "I don't believe you, I don't trust you. Does it matter?" To me it does not matter, not at all, because I don't depend on your belief, but it matters immensely for you. I am not saying force yourself to...
... day. But once in a while something happens. For example, Prem Chinmaya's death was such an occasion that I had to say something about death, something about which center he died from. I had to say this, that he will be back here soon. And these things are not beyond your comprehension if you are going deep into meditation, but if you are not going into deep meditation they are beyond comprehension...
... people die near about thirty, then they are buried at seventy. That's another thing: burial is one thing, dying is another thing. When society comes to know that you are dead that's another thing. I have heard about a priest -- a Catholic priest of course -- who died, and for three days he could not understand what had happened. Then he came to his church and tried to communicate with his successor...
... a very small thread -- they don't die, that's all, but they don't live either. They don't live at all. They somehow drag. So if you sit in zazen and you move deeply into it, your mind will start falling away, and your mind has up to now been your cleverness, your so-called intelligence. Your mind has accumulated all your experiences, your past. And when the past starts withering away and you...
... they don't count. Finally death comes, and all is taken away. And in this fight you could not enjoy, you could not delight in life. To delight in life one needs to be a fool, trusting. Read Dosteovsky's 'the Idiot'. The main character in 'The Idiot' is a Zen character, a Tao character, a prince who is foolish, totally foolish. But his doors are open, he is not in any way fighting the world. He is...
... refused him admittance because he had no ticket. 'Look', the youngster said,'it is very important.' 'Not a chance,' said the guard.'Everybody says that. Nobody gets in here without a ticket.' But the boy pleaded,' It is a matter of life and death. Please, I will only be two minutes.' 'Well okay, if it is so important,' the guard said.'But don't let me catch you praying!' This can happen in this ashram...
... possibilities, of your potential. Heaven or hell are not when you die: they are possibilities right now. In this very moment one can be in hell or heaven - and you may be in hell and your neighbor may be in heaven. And one moment you will be in hell and another moment you will be in heaven. Just observe closely: the climate goes on changing around you. Sometimes it is very cloudy and everything looks dark and...
... Khrushchev was just wagging his tail before Stalin. For thirty years he was just like a dog, not more than that! After Stalin's death, when he became powerful, he took revenge. Somebody asked him at a conference, "If you are so much against Stalin, why didn't you assert it when he was alive? For thirty years you were with him - there is not even a single case on record that you argued with him or said...
... was the only way to escape the problem. The priests invented this idea that hell and heaven are after life. In this life the sinner can succeed, but in the next he will have to suffer, after death he will have to suffer. And the saint may suffer in this life, but after death he will be rewarded: he will be taken to paradise. Now, nobody knows anything about the next life, whether it is or is not...
... had not brought it with your birth and you will not take it away when you die. And we are not going to stay here forever, just an overnight stay. We are just travelers, we are not monks. I have just come to see how many stupid people are living in these parts - and you seem to be the tops!" You can leave the world... you will be the same. You will again create the same world, because you carry...
... success, in failure, in life, in death. The Sufi gave him his ring and told him, "There is a message. Whenever you are really in need, in a real emergency, just open the ring, take up the diamond, and inside you will find the message - but not out of curiosity, only when there is real danger which you cannot face on your own and you need me, you can see the message." Many times the king became...
... curious what is in there, but he resisted his temptation: he had given his promise, his word. He was a man of his word. After ten years he was attacked and defeated. He ran away into the forest, into the mountains, and the enemy was following him. He could hear the horses coming closer and closer - it was death coming closer. They would kill him! But he was going as fast as he could on his horse. Tired...
... he was, tired was his horse; wounded he was, wounded was his horse. And then suddenly he came to a cul-de-sac. The way ended; there was an abyss. And there was no possibility of turning back because the enemy was closing in, at every moment coming closer. He could not take the jump into the abyss; that was sure death. Except for waiting there was nothing to do. Suddenly he remembered the ring. He...
... ENCOUNTERED. In fact. this is the first time you have encountered life, because life is spontaneity and life is danger. Have you ever heard of any man who has lived without danger? To live means to be in danger, to die means to be out of danger. Those who are in their graves are out of danger, out of all danger. Now nothing can happen to them: nobody can insult them, nobody can kill them, nobody can rob...
... them. Not even death is possible. They are absolutely beyond all danger. So people who are too afraid of danger start living in a sort of grave; they create a grave of security around them-selves and they start living in that grave, a subtle grave, a mind grave. They feel protected. But against whom are you protected? Against life. The moment you protect yourself you are creating barriers against...
... life, from birth to death, only then enlightenment comes otherwise not. So never stop anywhere. Somebody asked Buddha 'What is enlightenment?' And he said, 'CHARAIVETI, CHARAIVETI' - go on walking, go on walking, never stop, become an eternal journey. Yes, you can stop for an overnight stay, you call rest under a tree, but don't make your house there. Let the eternal growth be your only house. There...
... transformed, transmuted, you are here to improve yourself - that's where our languages are different. You are here to add some more experiences to your life to become a little more loving, a little more meditative. You are here to decorate yourself a little more, to succeed in life, to have more pleasures. You are here to improve, you are not here to die and be reborn. My whole effort here is to destroy you...
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