... you die, so what is the point? This life is not going to be for ever. We are searching for something which will remain for ever - we are after immortality, we are after ABSOLUTE gratification. People who are running here, in this life, after desires are fools because death will take everything away. You accumulate wealth, and here comes death and all is left behind. We are searching for some...

... your being there has never been any death, there cannot be. Your innermost core is absolutely a non- self. A self can die. The no-self cannot die. If there is something, it can be destroyed. That's why Buddha says there is nothing inside you - you are a pure nothing. That nothing cannot be destroyed. And once you have understood it, that death cannot destroy, that this nothingness is in itself so...

..., howsoever shattering, howsoever shocking. Even if you are annihilated by the impact of the truth it is good. Buddha says: The truth is that man's religions are man's inventions. You are in a dark night surrounded by alien forces. You need someone to hang on to, someone to cling to. And everything that you can see is changing - your father will die one day and you will be left alone, your mother will die...

... THING: he denies MOKSHA, paradise, heaven. He says: Your heaven, your paradise, are nothing but your unfulfilled sexual desires, unfulfilled instincts, being projected into the other life, the life beyond, the life after death. And he seems to be absolutely true. If you see the depiction, the description of heaven and paradise in Islam, in Christianity, in Judaism, you will understand it perfectly...

... God happy, and then you are going to reap a great crop of pleasures and gratifications.That will be His gift to you - for your prayers, for your appreciation, for continuous surrender, for again and again touching His feet, for your obedience - that is going to be the reward." The reward is, of course, after death, because even cunning priests canNOT deceive you in this life - even they cannot...

...: "Become more powerful and your desires can be fulfilled." That's what scientists say, that only a few more technologies have to be invented and the paradise is just by the corner. And what do your religions say? They don't say anything different. They say, "Desires can be fulfilled, but not in this life - after death." That is the only difference between the so-called materialists...

... cow die or let its milk disappear!" What type of religion is this? Even to call it religion looks absurd. If this is religion, then what is materialism? And even so-called ascetic people who have renounced the world... and there were many in the days of Buddha. He himself had gone to many masters while he was searching, but from everywhere he came back empty-handed - because he could not see...

... that anybody had really understood the nature of desire. They themselves were desiring; of course, their desire was projected in the faraway future, the other life, but still the object of desire was the same, the desiring mind was the same. It is only a question of time. A few people desire before death, a few people desire after death, but what is the difference? - that does not make any difference...

... treasure which we can take with ourselves, which will never be lost, which cannot be stolen, no government can tax it - nobody can take it away, not even death." You call these people religious people? They seem to be even more worldly than the so-called worldly; they are more materialistic than the materialists. Of course, their materialism is garbed in a disguise; their materialism has a flavour...

... to the brother, "You know, death to me is a very personal thing. Why do we have to call a bunch of strangers together to witness such a sad scene - if you two boys are there and I'm there, who needs anyone else?" The youngest son looked at them both and said, "I couldn't agree with you more. In fact, why do we need the expense of taking Papa to an undertaker? He is dying in the house...

... you are not practising the Way: "... YOUR LABOURS ARE WRONGFULLY APPLIED AND YOUR ENERGY IS WASTED. IT IS LIKE UNTO BURNING AN INCENSE STICK. HOWEVER MUCH ITS PLEASING ODOUR BE ADMIRED, THE FIRE THAT CONSUMES IS STEADILY BURNING UP THE STICK." That's how life is: each moment burning. You are always on the funeral pyre because each moment death is coming closer, each moment you are less...

... alive, more dead. So before this whole opportunity is lost, Buddha says, attain to a state of no-self - then there will be no death. And then there will be no misery. And then there will be no constant hankering for fame, power, prestige. In fact, the more empty you are within, the more you seek fame; it is a sort of substitute. The more poor you are within, the more you seek riches; it is a...

... stinking wounds. If a person has really lived and not been deceived by his dreams and illusory desires, the older he grows the more beautiful he becomes. In his death he is superb. Sometimes you may come across an old man whose old age is more beautiful than his youth ever was. Then bow down before that old man - he has lived a true life, a life of inwardness, a life of 'interiorness'. Because if life is...

... become wounded. Now you will suffer these canceric wounds. Old age becomes a great suffering. And death is very rarely beautiful, because very rarely have people really lived. If a person has really lived - like a flame burning from both ends - then his death will be a tremendous phenomenon, an utter beauty.You will see his life aglow when he is dying, at the maximum, at the optimum. In the last moment...

.... Arhat is the goal: to become desireless - because only when you are desireless is there benediction. Our so-called religions are based in fear. Buddha's religion is based in an inner benediction. We worship God because we are afraid, because we don't know what to do with our lives. We are continuously trembling, scared - death is coming and we don't know what to do, how to protect ourselves. We need a...

... - they are bound to stink of your fear. Buddha's religion is not based in fear at all. That's why he says the first step is to drop all beliefs. Those beliefs are because of the fear. Dropping the beliefs you will become aware of your fear, and that is good, to become aware of your fear. You will become aware of your death. You will become aware of this whole infinite cosmos - nowhere to go, nobody to...

... guide, nowhere to find any security. In that fear, in that awareness of fear, the only place left will be to start going withinwards - because there is no point in going anywhere. It is so vast. THE INTERIOR JOURNEY STARTS when you have dropped all beliefs and you have become aware of the fear, death, desire. And once you are in, suddenly you see fears are disappearing; because in the deepest core of...

... the ocean. The ocean is hidden in the drop. And until you become the ocean, don't accept relief, do not relax. Let that thirst take hold of you like a flaming fire. And all will be reduced to ash. And all will be burnt up. And all will be destroyed. Then higher life is uncovered. DIE, O YOGI, DIE! DIE, SWEET IS DYING. DIE THAT DEATH GORAKH DIED AND SAW. Enough for today? Generated by PreciseInfo...

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... THE MIND AND IMPURITIES OF INDULGENCE. RENOUNCE WORLDLY CRAVINGS, DROP GREED, THEY CATCH THE SWAN AND KILL IT. DROP THE DUAL, REMAIN NON-DUAL, RENOUNCE EMBRACING, REMAIN UNBOUND, NATURALNESS IS TECHNIQUE, ASANA HAPPENS, BODY, MIND, BREATH BECOME STEADY. AWAKEN SANYAM, THE BALANCE, CONSCIOUS AHAR, THE INTAKE, RENOUNCE SLUMBER THE DEATH OF LIFE. DROP ALL JUGGLERY OF TANTRA, MANTRA, YANTRA, MEDICINE...

... THE WEIGHT OF MATTED HAIR TANGLED IN HEAVY LOCKS. NO NEED FOR VIRTUES OF PLANTING TREES AND MAKING GARDENS, DO NOT DIE DIGGING WELLS AND POOLS. BREATH STOPS, BODY DECAYS, BE CENTERED IN SITTING O KING INSISTING ON PILGRIMAGES AND VOWS, DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE CLIMBING MOUNTAINS. DROP ALL THIS WORSHIP AND RITUALS, CHANTING WITH BEADS; ENOUGH PRETENSIONS OF YOGA. ABANDON ALL YOUR BUSINESS AND TRADE OF...

... KNOWLEDGE, YOUR STUDYING, CONTEMPLATING AND BEHAVIORISM. RID YOURSELF OF GATHERING DISCIPLES, RENOUNCE TITLES AS GRAVEYARDS, DEBATE AS POISON. HENCE I SAY, REALIZING DEATH, O KING, REMAIN ALONE. SEEING A GATHERING DON'T BOAST KNOWLEDGE, REMAIN LIKE A MUTE, MAD AND IGNORANT. DROP THE HOPINGS OF KING AND COMMONER, EAT BY BEGGING, REMAIN ABSOLUTELY INDIFFERENT. LET GO OF POTIONS, MAGIC BREWS, ALCHEMY...

..., Patanjali and Krishna... and we were at great heights. At least people were not starving. They were wealthy, not that I am saying that they had a great heap of wealth, this I am not saying. But they were not hungry. The body was satisfied. Bhajan could arise. When a country is poor, then communism arises there, not religion. Then people become ready for death and dying. Then there is cornering and...

... share might decrease. Their concern is that Muslim population not decrease. Their concern is that Hindu population not decrease. The Jainas are concerned that Jainas do not decrease. If their numbers decrease then their power will decrease. No one is concerned that if you all increase your numbers, Muslims increase, Hindus increase, Jainas increase, this whole country will die. All these priests and...

... prayed to improve any man. Let him be as god wishes. As he is is fine. Who am I? Some people brought a woman to Jesus and said, "She has committed adultery. It is written in the ancient scriptures, that she should be stoned to death. What do you think?" Jesus was sitting on the bank of a river. He must have fallen deep in thought: "If I tell them to stone her to death, it will be...

..., everything that you take in is aahaar. ... RENOUNCE SLUMBER THE DEATH OF LIFE And such an individual will let go of unconsciousness. Don't understand RENOUNCE SLUMBER as meaning he will never sleep. He will sleep but now he will not sleep unmindfully. This is a matter to consider. Now he will not be unmindfully awake either. You are sleeping even though you are awake. You are walking on the road and a...

... slept, that he stood up the whole night. He would go crazy. Or that he played on his flute all night, whether there were listeners or not. He himself would go mad and the neighbors too would go mad. He sleeps, but only his body sleeps, his consciousness remains awake. RENOUNCE SLUMBER THE DEATH OF LIFE This unconsciousness has deprived you of the higher life. This is the real death. If you let go of...

... gardens planted so travellers are shaded... ... DO NOT DIE DIGGING WELLS AND POOLS. Or have wells dug so that people can get water to drink. But remember Gorakh says: ... DO NOT DIE DIGGING WELLS AND POOLS. You will fall into the same well and die. Nothing can happen from this kind of virtue. Virtue without meditation is worthless, because it is the ego expanding itself. Sadhus hold on to ego too. They...

... from him. BREATH STOPS, BODY DECAYS, BE CENTERED IN SITTING O KING This body will break, soon the breath will be uprooted. BREATH STOPS... The breath will be pulled out. ... BODY DECAYS... This body will soon become old, it will come close to death. Before this happens: ... BE CENTERED IN SITTING O KING O king! O emperor! Take care. Before this, take care. Later you will repent much. When death comes...

... there will nothing left in your hands but repentance. We have wasted our life on things that we cannot take with us. Death will take away everything. All our splendor will be left behind. And we didn't gather meditation. Meditation can go with you in death. Meditation is the highest wealth. Death cannot take anything from one who has experienced samadhi, because neither weapons can pierce samadhi, nor...

... the name of service, will be doing something wrong. Your situation is as if you had not yet studied medical science and you go to serve patients. The same would happen, wouldn't it? The patients will die. If you don't go perhaps they will survive. Not everyone sick person dies, but if a doctor with no experience of medicine, goes to serve patients and starts giving out prescriptions and medicines...

... they will die. They will survive the disease, but it will be difficult to survive the doctor. The world has suffered much from servants. Do-gooders have caused much trouble. Remember the real experience has to happen in you first. RID YOURSELF OF GATHERING DISCIPLES, RENOUNCE TITLES AS GRAVEYARDS, DEBATE AS POISON. And don't be caught up in the scramble for titles and degrees. In the world there are...

... GRAVEYARDS... Understand titles as a graveyard. RENOUNCE... DEBATE AS POISON And don't fall into useless debate and scriptural arguments. Renounce them as you would poison. HENCE I SAY, REALIZING DEATH... If you don't understand, if you don't accept this, you will suffer much in the end. HENCE I SAY... Hence I say it to you again and again. ... REALIZING DEATH, O KING, REMAIN ALONE. Then you will be alone...

..., will you not? Disciples will not be coming with you, titles will not come with you, nor wealth, nor position. You will go alone, know now that you are alone. HENCE I SAY, REALIZING DEATH... Hence I say to remind you again and again, be now as you will be going in the end. Then death will take nothing from you. Then you will defeat death, death will not be able to defeat you. ... O KING REMAIN ALONE...

... death, I know only one thing, that I don't know anything. This is the sign of one who knows. DROP THE HOPINGS OF KING AND COMMONER... Drop any idea of being something. There are very strange thoughts moving here. One who is poor wants to be rich. And one who is rich thinks that the poor have more fun. This statement is very amazing: DROP THE HOPINGS OF KING AND COMMONER... Those who are commoners want...

...Death is Divine...

... separate, how can I die? To die you have to be separate. If I am one with the ocean, whether I am like a wave or not like a wave does not matter. That which exists in me is the ocean. It has been there before me, it will be after I am gone. In fact, I never came and I never went, it was just a manifestation of the universe ' - then death disappears and birth disappears. Otherwise the ego creates the fear...

... will disappear. Ulcers are the footprints of ambition. You may not have cancer any more, the cancer may not be possible at all because cancer is chronic anxiety. When anxiety becomes too much for the body to tolerate, the body starts moving towards death. The body starts creating situations where it can die easily. Cancer is an effort to die - things have become unbearable, now there is no point in...

... living. You want to die. Cancer simply shows your will to death. You may not be courageous enough to recognise it but your unconscious is helping you to die easily - that's why there is no cure for cancer. The man has really lost his joy of life. He has lost his joy of life in futile things. But wives are interested in having bigger houses, their own aeroplane - you can have cancer, that is okay, that...

... separate.' And if I am no more separate, I am not - because I can be only when I am separate. There is no way to be without being separate. Hence, on one hand the ego creates separation, on the other hand it creates anxiety, fear - fear of death. The fear of death comes out of the ego, otherwise there is no death, there has never been death. Death exists not. If I am one with the whole then how can death...

... exist? The whole has never died, the whole has always been there and the whole is going to remain there always. The ocean never dies. Only ripples and waves come and go. Once the wave things 'I am separate from the ocean,' then it will have great anxiety. Then death is coming - sooner or later. It is on the way. It is coming. And the fear, and the anxiety.... But if the wave knows that 'I am not...

... that 'I am going to die' and there is a constant trembling in the heart. You can never be at ease with the ego. Your anguish is your ego and nothing else. 'Bhagwan' does not mean the English word 'God' - which has become very dirty with wrong associations - 'Bhagwan' means the experience of oneness, the experience that 'there is no wall between me and the whole,' that 'I don't have a boundary,' that...

... you for certain reasons. First, the society needs it. Without creating a kind of ego in you, you will be dangerous. Through the ego you can be manipulated. Just think - if you don't have any ego nobody can frighten you. Impossible. Because you don't have death. You can only be frightened through death. That is why Jesus was not frightened, why Mansoor was not frightened. Many Sufis have been killed...

.... When Mansoor was being crucified, one hundred thousand people had gathered to see. And somebody asked - because he was laughing, laughing like crazy - somebody asked, 'Mansoor, have you gone mad? You are being crucified, why are you laughing? This is death. Are you not aware of the fact?' And Mansoor said, 'That's why I am laughing. They are killing somebody who is not. That is the whole...

... Sufis have been killed and they accepted death with such joy. From where do that joy and that courage come? It is not the courage of a soldier. No, not at all. It is the courage of a man who has come to realise that there is no ego, that 'I am not, so how can you kill me?' The courage of the soldier is different from the courage of a saint. The courage of the soldier is a well maintained courage; deep...

... of fear; the difference is only that the brave soldier goes into the war, into the front, into death, into fire, in spite of the fear. The coward cannot go. He escapes. But the fear is there in both. The brave man just has an idea of bravery. He has been conditioned. His ego has been strengthened in such a way that he has to remain brave. It is against his ego to escape; it is against his ego to...

... run away - that's all. Otherwise he is shaking like a leaf in a strong wind, trembling. The courage of a saint is totally different. It has nothing to do with the courage of a soldier. He knows he is not, so how can you kill him? He knows there is no death because there has never been any birth. He has dropped the fallacy of birth so the fallacy. of death disappears. He ha., dropped the fallacy of...

... world there is nothing, this world is all nonsense. Death comes and everything is taken away. I will seek some eternal power.' But it is still power.... 'This world's money is not very significant. I will seek some other kind of treasure which is eternal, which will remain with me.' Then again you become an egoist with new names - spiritual power, miraculous power. There are three ways that the so...

... Ramkrishna died. When Ramkrishna was dying he was crying and saying to him, 'Give my key back.' And Ramkrishna said, 'You will get it just three days before you die - because you seem to be dangerous. Such power cannot be used in such a way. You are not pure enough yet. You wait. You go on crying and you go on meditating. And exactly three days before Vivekananda died he had another satori. But then he...

... knew his death had come, only three days were left. This Hasan thinks he has attained a great power. Rabia is joking. Rabia says: 'IF YOU WISH TO SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM THIS AUGUST COMPANY, WHY DO YOU NOT COME WITH ME SO THAT WE MAY FLY INTO THE AIR AND SIT THERE TALKING?' HASAN SAID, 'I CANNOT DO THAT, FOR THE POWER WHICH YOU MENTION IS NOT ONE WHICH I POSSESS.' Remember, you can possess power but...

... death - and people are very much afraid of death. I have heard about one christian magazine, 'christian monitor'. It is one of the very old magazines - it has existed for decades - but they have never printed the word 'death'. They don't allow the word to enter in their magazine - so obsessed, so fearful. In the old days the insurance salesmen used to say to people, 'If you die tomorrow, what will...

... possibility. 'Yesterday? How can one die? I am alive!' But the message is conveyed and he does not take any antagonistic attitude. And the insurance companies are right - people are very much afraid of death... just the very idea and they start trembling. God is going to be your death, because when he comes, he wants to possess you sQ totally that he does not leave anything behind... he does not leave you...

... happen to your family? Have you thought about it?' Now they have changed it. Now insurance companies teach their salesmen never to say this - 'If you die tomorrow' - because it makes people afraid. And when they are afraid, they start defending, and you look like the enemy. So they will not be persuaded by you - they will want to throw you out. So they never say, 'If you die tomorrow, what will happen...

... to your family?' They have changed it and they found a more cunning way. They say, 'If you had died yesterday, have you ever thought what would have happened to your family Today?' Now this is beautiful! - yesterday is gone! Nobody can die yesterday. It is impossible to die yesterday, so the person feels very very good. The message is conveyed and he feels very very comfortable with this...

... meditate and do the Sufi dancing. Sing and dance, and be here, mm? - things will happen just by being here. And whenever you can manage, do a few more groups, otherwise there is not such a necessity. Rikta means zero, emptiness, nothingness. One has to disappear utterly then the space is created for god to be. We are the barrier, we have to die. If we live, god is dead; if we die, god becomes alive. You...

... must have heard Friedrich Nietzsche's famous statement 'God is dead.' And it was perfectly true for Nietzsche. He was an egoistic philosopher; god was certainly dead for him. As far as he was concerned he was stating a truth, it was his truth: 'god is dead'. If you are too much then god is dead, because there is no space left for god to be. If you die god starts becoming alive, god starts breathing...

... sannyas has just returned from the west, where she was able to be with her mother when she died: I think I helped her and it was an experience for me.] Good. Death is always a great experience if we allow it. If we don't close ourselves to it, it is one of the greatest experiences in life. But people are so afraid of death that they simply close themselves, they don't live it. And when a person like a...

... mother dies it is a really incredible experience; because your life started with your mother, now she is dying. The death of your mother can go to the very foundation of your being. It can help you to be disillusioned. It can open up new doors of being. It can make you aware that time is death, that only eternity is life and one has to search and seek for the eternal. Time is just an opportunity to...

... seek the eternal. If we become too engaged in temporal things we are missing the opportunity, and sooner or later death will come. And the opportunity lost cannot be recovered. If you can be available to some beloved's death you will start falling into deep silence, into deep meditation. And you will not be disturbed by trivia. If one is not disturbed by death then one is not disturbed by anything...

... else; that is the criterion. If you can pass through the experience of death, unscathed, unscarred, then something of a valuable insight has arisen in you. It was good that you went. [At a previous darshan a sannyasin, who was crippled by polio four years ago, said he disliked the constant attention his disability received. Osho suggested he wear a sign 'I am crippled. Please don't ask me about my...

... Buddha Auditorium Archive Code: N.A. Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. BELOVED OSHO, USING THE MIND TO LOOK FOR REALITY IS DELUSION. NOT USING THE MIND TO LOOK FOR REALITY IS AWARENESS. FREEING ONESELF FROM WORDS IS LIBERATION. REMAINING UNBLEMISHED BY THE DUST OF SENSATION IS GUARDING THE DHARMA. TRANSCENDING LIFE AND DEATH IS LEAVING HOME. NOT SUFFERING...

... PRACTICED BY GREAT BODHISATTVAS AND BUDDHAS. TO LOOK ON LIFE AS DIFFERENT FROM DEATH OR ON MOTION AS DIFFERENT FROM STILLNESS IS TO BE PARTIAL. TO BE IMPARTIAL MEANS TO LOOK ON SUFFERING AS NO DIFFERENT FROM NIRVANA BECAUSE THE NATURE OF BOTH IS EMPTINESS. BY IMAGINING THEY'RE PUTTING AN END TO SUFFERING AND ENTERING NIRVANA, ARHATAS END UP TRAPPED BY NIRVANA. BUT BODHISATTVAS KNOW THAT SUFFERING IS...

... ESSENTIALLY EMPTY. AND BY REMAINING IN EMPTINESS, THEY REMAIN IN NIRVANA. NIRVANA MEANS NO BIRTH AND NO DEATH. IT'S BEYOND BIRTH AND DEATH AND BEYOND NIRVANA. WHEN THE MIND STOPS MOVING, IT ENTERS NIRVANA. NIRVANA IS AN EMPTY MIND. ...AN UNINHABITED PLACE IS ONE WITHOUT GREED, ANGER OR DELUSION. ...WHOEVER KNOWS THAT THE MIND IS A FICTION AND DEVOID OF ANYTHING REAL KNOWS THAT HIS OWN MIND NEITHER EXISTS...

... is available to all the contradictions without any choice. He remains choiceless, just silently aware, knowing that they are contradictions but that ultimately they meet somewhere. Life meets death, day meets night, love meets hate, yes meets no. For the man who is beyond all opinions, for him yes is partial just as no is partial. In fact, when they both meet and merge into each other, when yes is...

... you mean? They are the same color." He had no eye for yellow; yellow looked to him like green. He could not see the yellow at all. But it was just coincidental. Perhaps millions of people live and die without knowing that they are color blind. If this certain circumstance had not happened, George Bernard Shaw would have died -- sixty years he had lived, forty years more he could have lived, he...

... moment of your death you may remember all those things as if they had been seen in a dream. At the time of happening they were so real, but at the time of death everything will become unreal -- just words in the mind. The real renunciation is not of the world. It is meaningless to renounce the world and escape to the Himalayas or to the monasteries. The real thing is to drop the words from your mind so...

... is all that is needed to be authentically religious. You don't have to go to any church or to any synagogue or to any temple. You simply have to go within and be alert. TRANSCENDING LIFE AND DEATH IS LEAVING HOME. I would like to add two words to this sutra, otherwise this sutra can be misleading. I would like to say: TRANSCENDING LIFE AND DEATH IS LEAVING THIS WORLD, not the home, because your...

..., he was my grandfather." And the mystic said, "What happened to him?" The king said, "He is dead." And the mystic said, "When are you going to die? They also believed that this is their home. I have argued with your grandfather. Now the poor fellow is in the grave. I have argued with your father; that poor fellow is also in the grave. Now I am arguing with you and...

... in search of my real home. This is not my real home." This world is only a caravanserai. In the sutra it says: TRANSCENDING LIFE AND DEATH IS LEAVING HOME. I would like: TRANSCENDING LIFE AND DEATH IS LEAVING for HOME -- leaving the world, leaving for the home, for the real home from where you will not have to go anywhere else again -- which will be your eternal, ultimate and absolute refuge...

... immediately -- coming closer and closer. The other shore is your real home. The other shore is your immortality, your eternity. This shore consists of death, disease, old age and all kinds of miseries. The other shore is the hope, the hope of being liberated, the hope of being saved, the hope of being redeemed from the nightmare in which we are all living. And the secret is simple: not to be a mind, but...

... spot. Although Bodhidharma has very big eyes, he cannot see one simple thing: the great arhatas belong to the same category as the great bodhisattvas and the buddhas. TO LOOK ON LIFE AS DIFFERENT FROM DEATH OR ON MOTION AS DIFFERENT FROM STILLNESS IS TO BE PARTIAL. TO BE IMPARTIAL MEANS TO LOOK ON SUFFERING AS NO DIFFERENT FROM NIRVANA BECAUSE THE NATURE OF BOTH IS EMPTINESS. BY IMAGINING THEY ARE...

... BY REMAINING IN EMPTINESS THEY REMAIN IN NIRVANA. NIRVANA MEANS NO BIRTH AND NO DEATH. IT IS BEYOND BIRTH AND DEATH AND BEYOND NIRVANA. But this is said only about bodhisattvas, not about arhatas. I would like to make it clear that it refers as much to arhatas as to bodhisattvas. WHEN THE MIND STOPS MOVING IT ENTERS NIRVANA. NIRVANA IS AN EMPTY MIND. Empty mind can be misinterpreted. I would...

... afraid that if he lied he would fall into hell. Now it is not a question of the court; it is a question of his religious conditioning. His conditioning has been challenged; the court is exploiting the conditioning. And if he speaks the truth, then there is bound to be a reward - perhaps after death, but God will know that he has been true to his word. But today, in a scientific age, when people are no...

... do? If he lies, he will go to hell - the same hell which he was going to already. What more tortures can you give him? At least by lying he can protect himself while he is alive from the tortures of the prison. And who knows about after death? And God is compassionate, God is kind, God is love: just a little murder.... If one murder sends a person to hell, what will happen to Adolf Hitler? - ten...

... million murders! Even God cannot find enough punishment for the man; hell will not be enough. You have committed a small theft - just a little bit of lying can save you from unnecessary harassment, punishment. And as far as after death is concerned, nobody has come back; nobody is an eye-witness that bad people go to hell and good people go to heaven. Nobody knows what kind of logic functions after...

... death. Perhaps good people are sent to hell, because "you have enjoyed goodness enough. Now have some taste of hell too." And bad people have suffered their whole life with anxiety and anguish; they need a little rest, a little holiday, a long weekend. Send them to heaven! This seems to be logical. And nobody knows whether you are going to survive after death. There have been great...

... philosophers - in India, a whole school of philosophers called Charvakas - who believe that with the death of the body everything dies. So it does not matter what you do - just do it skillfully so that you are not caught. And don't be worried about what happens after death; after death you will not be there. Death means the end of you. In Greece there was Epicurus, a very great logician, who said there is no...

... life beyond death; and he had a great school and hundreds of followers. And today, for the first time, half of the world - more than half of the world - is communist. Karl Marx, the founder of communism, does not believe in any God, any hell, any heaven. He says, "Consciousness is just a by-product. When the body disintegrates the by-product disappears." There has never been such a large...

... number of people believing that death is the end. That's why it was easy for Joseph Stalin to kill millions of people without a prick of conscience, because after death nothing survives. In this world, continuing a very ancient superstition in the courts - in the high courts, in the Supreme Courts of the world - just shows that even our judges are not contemporaries. Use scientific methods to find the...

... gravedigger. If people go on dying every day in big numbers, I will be coming every day with all my friends. That is my business." The gravedigger, naturally, wants somebody to die. The doctor, naturally, wants somebody to be sick. Things have to be changed: this is not a sane structure of the society. In China, Confucius made a very significant change. Every person had to pay the doctor if he remained...

... purpose in life, and joy is just a dream, just a hope; it does not exist in reality. The West needs meditation. The East needs medicine; it is sick in the body. The West is sick in the soul. Once we understand the problem clearly.... Now it is not the East which is a danger to the world; at the most they can starve and die as they are dying in Ethiopia. But it is not a danger to the world. In fact, in a...

... making nuclear weapons. There are only twenty scientists in America who know - just twenty scientists. Can't they simply say, "No, we are not going to be servants of death!" And the same will be the situation in the Soviet Union. There cannot be more people than that who can create nuclear weapons. If it happens in America, I am certain it will happen in the Soviet Union too. The question is...

... beautiful earth should not die. This is a unique planet, very small. In this immense universe, which knows no limits, this small earth is unique - unique because birds sing here, flowers blossom here, life has reached a new level: consciousness. And in a few people consciousness has touched its omega point: enlightenment. Compared to this earth, the whole universe is dead. It is big, vast, but even a...

... closer and closer on the horizon. This is the only commune in the whole world where people are not just being spectators, where people are searching for the antidote to nuclear weapons, where people are trying to find out the sources of life so that death loses all meaning. It will be the most idiotic act on America's part to destroy this commune, because it will mean destroying innocent people who are...

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... have always been a doer. So it is just an old habit. Old habits die hard, but they certainly die. And it all depends on you. The more you make it a process almost like breathing.... You go on doing everything, still you are breathing. You don't stop your breathing because you are digging a hole in the earth. Witnessing has to become just like breathing. It in fact is the breathing of the universal...

... hesitating, and while you are hesitating, life is flowing out of your hands. Remember, then death will be the only thing about which you cannot hesitate, because it does not give any notice: "I am coming this evening, at such and such a time - be ready!" Otherwise, you will start hesitating - to be ready or not to be ready? It happened in an Arabic story that a king dreamed in the night that...

... somebody - a very dark shadow - was standing behind him. Naturally, he became afraid. He turned back and asked the shadow, "Who are you? And what are you doing here?" The shadow said, "I am your death. But you are no ordinary human being, you are a great emperor; I thought it proper to inform you beforehand. If you have to finish any work, finish it. And get ready and meet me at the right...

... particularly. The right place I would avoid, the right preparation I would avoid, and that way death could not destroy me." But it was too late. Howsoever hard he tried by closing his eyes, the shadow never appeared. He became more and more afraid. As the sun was rising, he told his old servant, who was almost like a father to him, about the dream. The king said, "I don't understand what to do; and...

... within the remaining small period of time they will come to any conclusion. "My suggestion is, take your fastest horse and escape from this place at least, because death appeared in this palace, in this capital of yours. Go any direction. There is a possibility you may miss the right place." The old man's arguments appeared relevant. The king took his fastest horse and just started running...

... away from the palace, from the capital, as fast as he could. He did not even stop to drink water on the way or to eat food. When death is so close, who feels hungry? Who feels thirsty? The question was to get as far away as he could reach by sunset - the further the better. And by sunset he had ridden hundreds of miles away. As the sun was setting, he tied his horse to a tree in a garden outside some...

... a certain tree where at sunset your death has to happen. That's why I gave you the notice." Wherever you run, whatever you do, whatever your speed of running, one thing is certain about which you will not have to hesitate, and that is death. But at that moment when death occurs, you will go crying, weeping because you missed your whole life in hesitating. And there are always a thousand and...

... too late, it is never too late. Even if a person can live for a single moment before death, totally, that single moment becomes eternity. So from this moment try the same that has happened in the dance without your knowing. Whatever you want to do, do it totally; there is no need to hesitate. Life is short and fleeting. Be quick and do it, and enjoy it to its fullest. Be overwhelmed by it. If you...

... surrounding them, and they are sitting in the middle; the sun is not enough. They are worshipped! But what is the quality that you are thinking is religious in it? Perhaps that man was good for a circus, but here he has become a saint. He is worshipped, and he will be worshipped after his death. I have been to so many of this type of people, and strangely enough only one thing have I found common in them...

... brain cells, so tiny, that when blood rushes towards the head they are all finished. They immediately die, that much flood they cannot survive. They need only a very small quantity of blood. That's why man has been able to become intelligent as no other animal has, because the heads of all other animals are horizontal to the earth. They are getting too much blood, they cannot grow intelligence. But...

...From Death to Deathlessness...

... Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. OUR BELOVED MASTER, TOREI SAID: IF YOU WANT TO BE FREE FROM THIS WORLD OF SUFFERING, FIRST YOU MUST CONTEMPLATE IMPERMANENCE. THOSE WHO ARE BORN MUST INEVITABLY DIE. EVEN THE YOUNG ARE NOT EXEMPT; EVEN THE STRONG ARE IN DANGER. EVEN A LONG LIFE DOES NOT LAST MORE THAN EIGHTY YEARS OR SO. IF YOU DON'T ANNIHILATE THE NATURE OF...

... of the god, recalling the time when Ammon-Ra was incarnated in the form of a ram. Apes: In ancient Egypt, apes were considered sacred and were preserved by embalming them at death. Mouse: One of the greatest of the Greek gods, Apollo, was known to take the form of a mouse in his role as sender of the plague. Apollo, the sun god, would incarnate as mice and rats to dispel the forces of night. Horse...

... IMPERMANENCE. It won't help. You can think everything is impermanent: birth is impermanent, youth is impermanent, wealth is impermanent; life itself is running out. Everything is impermanent. That does not mean it will take you out of suffering. It simply makes you more aware that while there is time, enjoy as much as you can, because time is passing and death is not far away. Strangely enough, the same...

... argument is given by Charvakas, the Indian atheists. They say, "Everything is fleeting, so don't waste time in temples, in rituals, just eat, drink and be merry. And if you don't have money, borrow money, because after death everyone is finished, nobody is going to ask for his money back. After death, in the graveyard everybody sleeps soundly. The man who borrowed the money and the man who gave the...

... money both are dead. So don't miss a single moment. Enjoy it, even if it is to be enjoyed on borrowed money." The statement in Sanskrit is very beautiful. The statement says, no one who has gone beyond death has ever come back. This is enough proof, more than enough, that death is the end. And if death is the end, then why be worried about small things? It may be your own pocket or somebody...

... else's pocket, it does not matter. Death will not differentiate between the sinner and the saint. There is no one to make the judgment. RINAM KRITVA GHRITAM PIBET. Even if you have to borrow money, borrow it, but drink refined butter. Don't be worried about tomorrow. It was a great school, not only in India but in Greece also. These were the two countries at that time which were touching the peaks of...

..., things are fast running out of hand; squeeze the juice of every moment without delay. Contemplation can take you into an atheistic worldview. THOSE WHO ARE BORN MUST INEVITABLY DIE. EVEN THE YOUNG ARE NOT EXEMPT. Just because everyone is going to die ... Torei and similar teachers think that it is enough for people to become detached because everything is going to die. The result is just the contrary...

... -- because everything is going to die, be quick before it dies. A man was brought into a court in France for making love to a woman on the sea beach. The charge was that he had been making love to a dead woman. The magistrate asked him, "What do you have to say?" He said, "I thought she was an English lady." Man has been told by these teachers: EVEN THE STRONG ARE IN DANGER. EVEN A LONG...

... like Torei thought that if people contemplate that everything is going to die ... why love this woman if she is going to die? -- if not today then tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Even if she does not die, she will be in a worse position -- she will become old. What is the point in loving a woman who will become old? A man was telling a woman, "I love you. I love you more than my life."...

... whatever you want to, because death will come. And it comes to everyone, the saint and the sinner, in a similar way; it does not make any categories. THIS BODY IS GAINED THROUGH THE RELATIONSHIP OF FATHER AND MOTHER. This type of thing can be told only by a teacher. Everybody knows this body is gained through the relationship of father and mother. And then more stupid things he goes on saying: ... AND...

... prepared. Here, every day, ten thousand people die and within five minutes they are all resurrected. And two thousand years ago, nobody was certain that Jesus was actually dead. My feeling is that he was just as dead as you all are. Resurrection is not possible unless the death is just like your death. So he closed his eyes, rested on the cross and waited for the evening when the crowd would disperse...

... APPEARANCES, YOU WILL REALIZE TAO IN AN INSTANT. IF YOU FOLLOW OTHERS, AND SUCCEED IN LEARNING SOMETHING BY KEEPING YOURSELVES BUSY WITH YOUR STUDIES, YOU WILL FINALLY RETURN TO THE REALM OF BIRTH AND DEATH. IT IS FAR BETTER TO MAKE YOURSELVES UNCONCERNED, AND GO TO SOME MONASTERY WHERE YOU CAN SIT CROSS-LEGGED ON THE CORNER OF A MEDITATION BED. MAKE NO MISTAKE: THERE IS NO DHARMA EXTERNALLY, AND THERE IS...

... else, because your burning body will stink up the whole neighborhood." He said, "It is so difficult. You cannot allow a person either to live or to die!" That night he dreamed and prayed to God: "It is enough! Either you take away my troubles... I'm even ready to exchange because I see everybody smiling, laughing, enjoying. I'm ready to change with anybody!" A voice in his...

... OTHERS, AND SUCCEED IN LEARNING SOMETHING BY KEEPING YOURSELVES BUSY WITH YOUR STUDIES, YOU WILL FINALLY RETURN TO THE REALM OF BIRTH AND DEATH. Unless a deep meditation cleanses you of your mind completely, you are going to be born again and again and suffer again and again. It is almost a wheel which goes on moving - from birth to death, from death to birth - and you are glued to the wheel, crushed...

... inches down!" That is exactly your situation. You are holding so tight. To what are you holding? And I'm trying every day to persuade you not to hold, because just below, six inches down, is your very center of being, your eternity. But even if you die, it is a rehearsal; you don't die really. You try... but I'm not saying to try, I'm saying to die! And people are dying so carefully. I'm puzzled...

...... I simply keep my eyes closed in order not to see how comfortable you are making it for yourself. Just waiting for Nivedano's drum to bring you back to life - and you have not died yet! Just one day at least try... REALLY die! Don't think of any comfortable position, because you will not be able to have a comfortable position in your grave. And one day you will be in a grave, so it is better to be...

.... His friends had made every arrangement to bring him down from the cross and take him out of Judea. I don't give you that much trouble - just five minutes' death, because you have to get only six inches down from your mind. Your center is exactly six inches away. That much witnessing, and you are free of all troubles and for the first time you know the beauty of existence. And don't wait - Nivedano...

... - just six inches behind. When you enter into meditation today, don't cling to any roots! When it is time to die, die. When it is time to resurrect, resurrect. But don't be in a hurry. Resurrection in a hurry does not suit a gentleman. At least while you are resurrecting, be nice fellows. Ryokan wrote: BUDDHA IS YOUR MIND AND THE WAY GOES NOWHERE. DON'T LOOK FOR ANYTHING BUT THIS. IF YOU POINT YOUR...

... don't have to go anywhere to find it, it is just at the very center of your being. All the bliss, all the grandeur, all the beauty, all the truth... In this suchness arises your spontaneity. In this suchness you become a buddha. Remember it. Remember it. It is your self-nature. Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Now die... don't hold on to any roots. Without any worry, die, because after two minutes is the...