... instinct or desire for death. If its instinct was suicidal it would have used your help to die. I wanted to see whether it was yearning to live - if it was determined to live, it would live. I knew that you were going to uproot it and throw it away." Goshalak asked, "What are you saying?" Mahavira said, "When I was looking into the inner being of the plant with my eyes closed, I also...

... you live - how you will live. You do want to know how you will die when the time comes or what you will be doing at that time. Your curiosity extends to events, not to the soul. That I am living is just an event, but what I am doing while living, or what I am, is my soul. When I die it will be an event, but at the moment of death, how I will be, what I will do, is my soul. We shall all die, the...

... event of death is similar for all, but the manner of dying, the moment of death, will be different for everyone - someone can even die smiling. At the time of death, someone asked Mulla Nasruddin, "What do you think, Mulla? - when people are born from where do they come? Mulla replied, "I've seen every child weeping at the time of birth, and at the time of death also everyone seems to be...

... weeping. So, I surmise that people are neither coming from nor going to a good place. While they come they are weeping, while they go they are also weeping!" But people like Nasruddin die laughing.... Death is an event, but that which is laughing at the time of death is the soul. So, when you go to an astrologer, ask him how you will die - weeping or laughing? This is worthwhile asking - but it is...

... happenings on the sun. These events are quite similar to what we call birth and death. Understand it this way: the sun grows for forty-five years and then begins to decline in age for forty- five years. For forty-five years the energy flow within the sun increases towards a peak of youth. After forty-five years there is a receding flow of energy, as within a human being. After ninety years the sun becomes...

...-eight degrees we will die, and if it shoots up above one hundred and ten degrees we will also die. But do you think that the is limited to a twelve degrees variation of temperature, that beyond this we will die? Man lives within the limited range of twelve degrees, and beyond this range, he will die. Man lives in a sort of balance. He has to fluctuate between ninety-eight and one hundred and ten...

... - influences the child for his whole life. It is like knowing the exact effect of what would happen when an atom bomb explodes amidst a populated area like Hiroshima. Before the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, it was only known that hundreds of thousands of people would die. But it was not known that this would also effect the future generations and everything else too. For those who died in Hiroshima...

... and he would fall.... Neither the falling down nor the orange peel have any relationship to the stars. Astrology has lost respect because it became connected with such things. At one time or the other we all have wanted to know such things from astrologers - but these things are nonessential. But there are certain semi-essential matters such as the birth or death of a person: if you can know...

... to produce a flower, or will it die before it can flower? What is its future?" Mahavira immediately closed his eyes and sat in front of the plant. Goshalak cunningly said, "Do not evade the issue. What will happen by closing your eyes?" He did not know why Mahavira had become silent and closed his eyes, and that he was looking for the essential. It was necessary to go deep down into...

... saw you standing by, determined to uproot it. I knew that you would uproot the plant - that is why it was necessary for me to know the inner capacity of the plant to live, how much self-confidence and will power it had. If it was waiting to die and looking for an excuse, your excuse would be enough for it to die; otherwise, the uprooted plant would take root again." Goshalak lacked the courage...

... than the plant. You are defeated." One of the reasons for Goshalak being displeased with Mahavira was this incident concerning the plant. The astrology I am talking about concerns the essential, the fundamental. At best your curiosity as far as the semi-essential. You want to know how long you will live or whether or not you will suddenly die. But you are not curious to know what you will do if...

... connected to essential astrology. No one on this earth has asked an astrologer whether he will die weeping or smiling. You are asking when you will die - as if dying is of value in itself. You are asking how long you will live - as if just living is sufficient. Why will I live? For what shall I live? What shall I do while living? What shall I become if I live? Such questions are not asked by anyone. That...

... of our disappearance because we became artificially happy through our belief in our own existence. We should have realized that there is only a large wave and a vast sea, and that we are not - that it is the wish of the sea that we arise in it, that it is the wish of the sea that we die. If an attitude arises in which we realize that we are only a fraction of the grand desire of the infinite, then...

... Buddhist term of great significance. Buddha calls one 'sugata', well-gone, who will not be coming back into the world again; hence he is called well-gone: one who has finished his work here, who has lived in the wheel of life and death and has matured from here, has graduated from the world. Only when one is absolutely ripe does one become sugata, well-gone. Just as a ripe fruit falls of its own accord...

... the death centre; that's why Japanese call it hara and they call suicide hara kiri. To commit suicide you have just to force a dagger in below the navel, two inches below the navel; and it is really a medically unbelievable thing that man dies immediately, with no pain, with no anguish. Sex is life, and just close by is the centre of death, hara. It is not exactly at your navel but below the navel...

... that you have become very much afraid. Death and life are naturally connected, connected deep down. If something goes wrong with the sex centre then something goes wrong with the death centre. It happens to many people in childhood that sex is repressed; no child is allowed sex, no society allows it. He is not allowed to touch his own genital organs, he is not allowed to play with them. That happens...

.... Once it is released you will become orgasmic; otherwise you will never become orgasmic. Your orgasm will remain a local thing; it will not touch your whole body. It will not be a delight of energy, it will be just local, genital. It will not even go into your navel, it will not even touch your death point, and when the life and death points vibrate together, that's what orgasm is. People have orgasm...

... very rarely. Women have it less because they are more afraid of death than man, so they don't allow their death centre to vibrate with the life centre; they pull it, they hold it, they turn frigid. A man at least can have a local orgasm, but a local orgasm is nothing. It is just like a sneeze - absolutely meaningless. It has no ecstasy in it. Tantra has worked very deeply on the death and the life...

... peak of sexual orgasm. There are many layers of orgasm. First, it can be just local, genital. Second, it can be total in your body. Your death and life centre both vibrate together; it has great depth. But if the woman you are making love with is also vibrating in the same way as you, her life and death centres also vibrating in the same way as yours are, then you will have a new depth which you...

... religion, real religion, is death and a far deeper death than the so-called death. In the ordinary death you simply change the body but you remain the same. You simply change the house, you move from one house to another. But in the religious death you are no more; you simply disappear without leaving a trace behind. But then something great happens, something vast, enormous. When you are not, god...

... they have created these substitutes to befool themselves and others. The real religion is a preparation for death, for utter death. So let me be your death! Only then can the master function, and only then can the master help the disciple. This is the meaning of surrender, this is the meaning of sannyas: the disciple simply gives a signal, 'I am ready - if you kill me, I will not resist.' But in that...

... death, life abundant happens. Only the false dies and the real arrives. It is a bargain! [A sannyasin says she wants to study Osho's words in relation to the works of the poet, Rilke, whose ideas she finds akin to those of Osho.] It is always good to enjoy poetry, but there is no need to go into its analysis - that is futile. You will destroy even the enjoyment that you are getting from it. Poetry is...

... AWARENESS IS BUDDHAHOOD. ...DON'T HATE LIFE AND DEATH OR LOVE LIFE AND DEATH. KEEP YOUR EVERY THOUGHT FREE OF DELUSION, AND IN LIFE YOU'LL WITNESS THE BEGINNING OF NIRVANA, AND IN DEATH YOU'LL EXPERIENCE THE ASSURANCE OF NO REBIRTH. TO SEE FORM BUT NOT BE CORRUPTED BY FORM OR TO HEAR SOUND BUT NOT BE CORRUPTED BY SOUND IS LIBERATION. EYES THAT AREN'T ATTACHED TO FORM ARE THE GATES OF ZEN. EARS THAT AREN'T...

... death. This is something very essential. If there is only one life of seventy years on average, then you don't have much time left for meditation, for exploration of your being -- searching for the path. Seventy years is such a small span that one-third of it is wasted in sleep; one- third of it is wasted in educating you to earn your livelihood. And the remaining one-third, you waste in many ways...

... your death closer and closer. If you count all your activities .... Shaving your beard twice a day -- how much time you put into it! Listening to the radio or watching the television -- how much time you waste on it. An American survey shows that each American wastes seven and a half hours every day watching television. That is one third of his life he is just sitting, glued to his chair, watching...

..., meditation is not possible for the simple reason that one life span is too short. And death comes too quickly. It does not give you enough time. The Eastern concept takes care of your spiritual growth. The hypothesis of reincarnation, a continuous eternal cycle of birth and re-birth, gives you enough time. You can sit silently for hours; there is no hurry. There is no need to be speedy. There is an...

... back home. I have gone too far away in these millions of lives." This is the foundation of the Eastern wisdom. It creates a great boredom with life, death and the continuous vicious circle. That is the original meaning of the word, SAMSARA; it means the wheel that goes on moving, on and on; it knows no stopping. You can jump out of it, but you are clinging to it. This is the basic device to...

... on its own, because a man of meditation functions with awareness. If he sees that the world is overpopulated, he cannot produce children. Nobody has to tell him. Why should he bring his children into a world which is going down every day towards a disaster? Who wants his children to go through a third world war? Who wants his children to die hungry and starving on the streets? Meditation is the...

... aware that in the ear there is also another sense that keeps your body balanced. But Bodhidharma says six senses and five shades ARE CONSTRUCTS OF SUFFERING AND MORTALITY. When you are deluded, when you are in the mind, the five elements and the six senses of your body create for you, suffering, death and nothing else. But: WHEN YOU WAKE UP, that is, when you go beyond the mind, THE SIX SENSES AND...

... cannot be aware of itself. Innocence cannot be aware of itself. So the buddhahood exists only for those who are far away from it. Buddhahood disappears for those who have reached home. A buddha does not know that he is a buddha. Knowledge is always about the other. The mirror can reflect everything in the world except itself. The mirror does not know that he is. ...DON'T HATE LIFE AND DEATH OR LOVE...

... LIFE AND DEATH. KEEP YOUR EVERY THOUGHT FREE OF DELUSION, AND IN LIFE YOU WILL WITNESS THE BEGINNING OF NIRVANA, AND IN DEATH YOU WILL EXPERIENCE THE ASSURANCE OF NO REBIRTH. It fills me with great surprise that the whole Western sphere has never thought about rebirth. Great philosophers from Plato to Kant, to Feuerbach, to Bertrand Russell, to Jean Paul Sartre -- a great line of immensely...

... intelligent geniuses, but not a single person has ever thought about rebirth. Their whole idea has remained ...just one life. It is too miserly. Existence is not miserly; it is overflowing with abundance. Every death is a beginning of a new life, except only rarely, when somebody becomes enlightened. Then his death is the ultimate death. He will not be born again. He will not be engaged in a body again; he...

... come to see him and he had been wanting to come to see him but the path to his monastery was dangerous, going through wild forests, dangerous mountainous parts. But finally, the emperor decided he had to go. His death was coming near and he couldn't take the risk .... Before death came he must have some understanding that death cannot destroy. He reached the Zen master who was sitting under a tree...

.... He touched his feet and said, "I have come to ask one question. Is there really a hell or heaven? Because my death is coming close and my only concern is: where am I going; to hell or to heaven?" The master laughed and said, "I have never thought that our emperor is such an idiot." To say to the emperor, "an idiot" ...! For a split second, the emperor forgot and pulled...

... become powerful and make history, and the unsuccessful criminals who are encaged in jails, in prison, and die an ignominious death... who live meaninglessly and die meaninglessly. The successful criminal, once in a while you catch him. For example, President Nixon was caught. If you had not caught him, you would have never thought that he was a criminal. In history, he would have remained a great...

... hundred Sanjay Gandhis. It doesn't matter; he can be seen later on - and he was dead anyway. When I heard this, that the first thing she asked about was two keys, I was shocked... but not by Sanjay Gandhi's death. People die - that is not much of a problem - and everybody has his own style of death. Somebody dies in an accident, somebody dies in some other way; a few people die in the common, usual way...

... who goes on hitting on your closed window, knocking: "Please open the window." Closed from everywhere, you are already in your grave. I have often told a beautiful Sufi story. A great king was very much afraid of death, afraid of being assassinated by his own prime minister, by his own sons, by his own army. He made a beautiful palace with no windows, no doors, just one door to enter by...

... man is just a skeleton. The palace was made, and he was very happy that now no enemy agent, no assassin, no murderer, no kidnapper, could enter into the house. The guarding was so guardedly done that even a guard could not do anything; the other guard would shoot him immediately. The neighboring king heard about the palace. He was also in the same difficulty - insecurity, fear, death. And the more...

...: Are you aware or not that one door is still there and that death will enter from that door? - and your guards will not be able to prevent it. And you don't have any other door in your house to escape from, either. "My suggestion is that you go inside, and rather than putting guards, tell the architect to close up this door too and make a wall - then you will be absolutely protected; even death...

... himself to people, to the trees, to the birds, to the ocean, to the river. He will not live in fear; fearlessness will be his flavor. Death comes... to everybody it comes, and because it is so certain, there is no need to have fear about it. In life, except death everything is uncertain; it may happen, it may not happen. But about death you can be certain. When it is absolutely certain - and nobody in...

... with death but being totally in love with life. Life affirmation is the essence of sannyas. You do not need, Milarepa, any exposure. By becoming a sannyasin you have accepted to expose yourself on your own. Politicians need exposure because in their cupboards there are many skeletons. Every politician is a criminal, but a successful criminal. There are two types of criminals: successful criminals who...

..., just lying in their beds. The bed is the most dangerous place; ninety-nine percent of people die there! Never sleep in your bed, because ninety-nine percent of people die there and you go to sleep in the same place every night. It is better to sleep on the floor. Sanjay Gandhi died in an accident - that was his style of dying. That was not a problem... but this woman, who is a mother, asked about the...

... keys! - not about the death of the son or the accident. And she rushed to the police station before those keys could be lost. You will be surprised to know that Indira Gandhi never lived with her husband for long - and it was a love marriage. Indira Gandhi was a brahmin Hindu and her lover was a Parsee, so the marriage was very difficult for orthodox minds to accept. But Indira was the only daughter...

..., that he should live alone because his disease was very contagious. They put me in that cell - and the doctor was present, the superintendent was present, the U.S. marshal was present. But you see... the man could not speak well in English - he was from Cuba - but somehow he managed to write and tell me, "I am suffering, Osho, and I am almost on the verge of death with a fatal disease. For six...

... the beyond, and only the beyond is beyond life and death. You will have to die, you will have to be reborn. While dying, just like a tree, you gather all your desires again in a seed. You don't go into another birth; the seed flies and goes into another birth. All you have lived desired - your frustrations, your failures, your successes, your loves, your hates - while you are dying, the whole energy...

... this point, Patanjali says it is samadhi without contemplation - nirvichara samadhi. If you attain to this samadhi you will become very, very happy, silent, serene. You will always be collected inside, together. You will have a crystallization; you will not be an ordinary man. You will look almost superhuman, but you will have to come back again and again. You will be born, you will die. The wheel of...

... small mustard seed can fill the whole earth with vegetation. No-thought is the most subtle seed. And if you have it, Patanjali calls this "samadhi with seed", sabeej samadhi. You will continue coming, the wheel will continue moving - birth and death, birth and death. It will be repeated. Still you have not burned the seed. If you can burn this thought of no-thought, if you can burn this...

... thought of no-self, if you can burn this thought of no-ego, only then nirbeej samadhi happens, samadhi with no seed. Then there is no birth, no death. You have transcended the whole wheel, you have gone beyond. Now you are pure consciousness. The duality has dropped; you have become one. This oneness, this dropping of duality is the dropping of life, death. The whole wheel suddenly stops - you are out...

.... He was alive but frozen. People came to search where he has gone, and then they have found him standing; the whole night he was standing under the tree. And when they asked, "Why didn't you come home back? - and the snow is falling and one can die," he said, "I completely forgot about it. For me, it has not fallen. For me, time has not passed. I was so much absorbed with the beauty...

... gathers into a seed. That seed is of energy; that seed jumps from you, moves into a womb. Again that seed recreates you, just like a seed in the tree. When the tree is going to die, it preserves itself into the seed. Through the seeds the tree persists; through the seed you persist. That's why Patanjali calls it sabeej samadhi. If the object is there, you will have to be born again and again, you will...

... theory is true and which theory is untrue. Truth carries much of the logic in it. It is a logical word. Rit means the law of the cosmic harmony, the law which moves the stars, the law through which seasons come and go, the sun rises and sets, and night follows day, and death follows birth. And mind creates the world and no-mind allows you to know that which is. Rit means the cosmic law, the very...

... conflict; everything has fallen in line. Even the wrong is absorbed, it is not discarded; even the bad is absorbed, it is not discarded; even the poison is absorbed, it is not discarded; nothing is discarded. In truth, the untruth is discarded. In ritambhara, the whole is accepted, and the whole is such a harmonious phenomenon that even the poison plays its own part. Not only life but death also...

... understand why things are as they are, why death exists. Now you know life cannot exist without death. And what life will be without death?-life will be simply unbearable without death; and life would be simply ugly without death - just think! There is a story about Alexander the Great, that he was in search to find something which can make him immortal. Everybody is in search of something like that, and...

... done and I am suffering." Alexander looked at the crow and said, "What are you saying? You have drunk, and what is the suffering?" He said, "Now I cannot die and I want to die. Everything is finished. I have known everything that life can give. I have known love and I have grown out of it. And I have known success; I was a king of crows, and now I am fed up, and I have known...

... everything that can be known. And everybody I knew has died; they have gone back to rest, and I cannot rest. I have tried all efforts to commit suicide, but everything fails. I cannot die because I have drunk from this condemned cave. It is better that nobody knows about it. Before you drink, you meditate on my condition - and then you can drink." It is said Alexander for the first time thought about...

... it, and came back without drinking from that cave and that stream. Life will be simply unbearable if there is no death. Love will be unbearable if there is no opposite to it. If you cannot separate from your beloved it will be unbearable; the whole thing will become so monotonous, it will create boredom. Life exists with the opposites - that's why it is so interesting. Coming together and getting...

... individual for whom there is a possibility of being born or the one whom you have given birth, is created by you to die. Really speaking, birth is the beginning of death. If birth is one end of life, the other end would be death. If a father is considered responsible for the birth of child, he is taking only half the responsibility. Whose responsibility will it be for death? If a mother takes the...

... that. Such a mind is incapable of becoming the cause - the instrument - of anybody's death. To give birth to a child becomes the cause of death of that child. It makes no difference if death comes after seventy years. This time element makes no difference. So the whole thing comes to this: the semen particles which come out due to sexual intercourse and which die within two hours are sure to die, and...

... those which are saved will also die after seventy or eighty years. Sexual enjoyment goes on producing death though it looks like giving birth. This is the sole deception of life, that 'death' is written on the back door of life. When you enter life, you get in looking at the gate of birth, but when you go out of life, you get out from the gate of death. This is the deception of life that 'happiness...

..., we feel we have touched somebody. The pillow will also react, though a little. In 2500 years after the death of Mahavira, the world has become objective. The meditation which Mahavira has talked about, does not require even a pillow. No pillow is necessary in the meditation about which I talk too. But it would perhaps be difficult in America to box-to-strike-without a pillow. There should be some...

... living full of life. A person is making use of these semen particles during sexual intercourse throughout his life. All those semen particles which go out die within two hours after sexual intercourse. And if a few semen particles enter a woman's ovary, they start on a journey of a new life and the rest of the particles die within two hours. Thus millions of semen particles die in one sexual...

... responsibility of birth, she is assuming only half the responsibility Whose responsibility will it be for the death? When the father or the mother assumes responsibility for the birth, it becomes a dishonest transaction. Then what about the responsibility for death? Therefore, a fully nonviolent mind (or person) is unable to assume the responsibility of becoming a father or a mother. There is a deep reason for...

... is in an atom is also there in the Universe. He alone can call it spiritual who knows that a drop of water and an ocean are one. One who has known one drop perfectly well has got nothing more to know about the ocean. When a drop is known the whole ocean is known. He has known the ocean within all who has known the drop within himself. Then he does not die because there is nothing left. Then that...

... within. This important experience is like death and one is often afraid and nervous. Sexual intercourse has a deep relation with death. If you go deep you will see that sex and death are similar. A bit in a man also dies during each sexual intercourse. His life energy gets diminished. If we examine the lives of some animals, it is very surprising to find that some animals die at the end of the sexual...

..., man diso dies bit by bit during the sexual intercourse believing like the spider that it is not happening to him. Every man thinks that he is an exception. When a person dies on a road, it does not strike us, we shall also die one day. We simply say, the poor man died. It does not strike us, we also are 'that poor'. The death of that man should be a warning to us. The relationship - sex and death...

... ready to die at that moment, at once realizes that he is entering the region of nectar. In the outer world, each sexual intercourse leads to death In the inner world each sexual intercourse leads to nectar. It is that which Kabir is preaching to the Sadhus. The rain of nectar is coming from the palate. The inner sexual union is like the birth of a child, but it is not borne by two partners it is like...

... - is very deep. So the repentance which one experiences at the end of an intercourse, is, really speaking, the repentance of death to a certain extent. Man dies to a small extent. Now he is not that which he was before the intercourse. Something is lost, something is annihilated, something is broken off The life energy is weakened. That is why when energy reaches the inner circles or the first circle...

... for the first time, one is very much afraid and feels as if he is dying. Even so in the depths of meditation one is troubled by the fear of death. One feels he is dying, but should be prepared to overcome it at that time. When you welcome death it becomes as pleasing as the sexual intercourse. You should similarly be ready to meet death at the first moment of inner sexual intercourse. He who is...

... giving a new birth to oneself. This person is what we describe as twice born - he who has achieved a new birth by bringing his life energy to the inner circles. All the births in the outer world are followed by death, and all the inner births are followed by nectar. If this process, described in the Tantra is understood properly, it is not at all difficult to take sex energy to celibacy. But it is...

... the USA. Thirty young men were starved for thirty days. After three days, their sex attraction and sex appeal began to die out. One psychologist saw that magazines showing naked photographs were lying idle now. After seven days, the photographs were kept in front of them but they did not look at them. After ten days they wanted to discuss sex with them. They were just not interested. After fifteen...

... days they lost all interest in sex. All sorts of stimulants were given to them but they sat there as if they had no concern with all those things What has happened? In fact, the body does not supply any energy. There is now no interest in the mind. It was only after three days of their taking food that they showed interest in sex. The body does not die by fasting but the energy decreases. The body...

... intensity of the desire to be born. Birth cannot take place without this violence. It is necessary to understand that birth is violence, life is violence, death is violence. We cannot live without violence. It does not make any difference if a person eats meat or eats vegetables only. There is life in vegetables, so he commits violence. He will certainly drink water. There is life in water too. A person...

... has to breathe so the;e is life in breath also. I utter one word, lips open once, and shut once, but lakhs of bacteria die in that single operation. Violence will be there. It is another matter that Mahavira committed less violence, but he is certainly not out of it. There will be violence while walking, stepping forward, breathing, standing and sitting. So our entire life is swimming in the ocean...

.... KNOWLEDGE AND SEXUAL INDULGENCE Ordinarily the action of giving birth happens between two persons devoid of knowledge. People like Buddha and Mahavira will not be willing to be instrumental in conception. There are two reasons for it: one is, they can be prepared and willing to send some one on the journey of birth and death. They cannot be the cause for that. In fact persons like Buddha and Mahavira are...

... eager to send us all to that place of no return, from where there is no birth again. They are the individuals who are eager to free us from birth and death. We wish to bring someone on the earth while they wish to free someone from this earth. Mahavira and Buddha also wish to give birth some to place which is termed moksha. They wish to send us there where there is neither body, miseries nor anguish...

.... Life starts declining. One has to be ready for the second phase of life. And the modern society does not prepare people for the second phase. For life you have been prepared in the school, college, university - for almost twenty-five years you have been prepared! You have been taught how to live, but you have not been taught at all how to die. And death is the culmination of life. It is a great art...

.... Religion is the art of death - how to die joyously, how to die with hallelujah on your lips, how to die dancingly. How to transform the quality of death into the quality of samadhi. How to transform the experience of death into the experience of communion with the divine. It is near about the age of forty-two that suddenly religion starts becoming important. And modern man does not accept that, so a...

.... The difference is that of knowledge, that of quantity. He knows more than you know, but he is nOT MORE than you are! He is exactly at the same level. He is worried with the same anxieties. He is troubled by the same nightmares. Sigmund Freud himself remained obsessed with the fear of death his whole life. How is he going to help? And he is the founder of psychoanalysis. How is he going to help? All...

... his help can only be a pretension. He himself is trembling. He was so afraid of death that even to mention the word 'death' was enough... and he would start perspiring. Just the mention of ghosts was enough... and he would fall in a swoon. And it was not only so with him. Carl Gustav Jung was exactly the same. He was so afraid of death that he could not see a dead body. He always wanted to go to...

... the aeroplane. From the airport he rushed back home. He became so frightened that he dropped the whole idea for ever, and he never went to Egypt to see those mummies. And he was very much interested in them. Now, how are these people going to help? A Master knows there is no death - not only knows through others but through his own experience. He has looked deep into his life, and death has...

... have said: "observing thousands of patients in my life, this has been one of my most important conclusions - that people who come to me after the age of forty-two, or nearabout, are not really suffering from any psychological problems but are suffering from religious problems." I perfectly agree with Jung - that is the time when a person suddenly becomes aware of death. Just as at the age...

... of fourteen a person suddenly becomes aware of sex, and sex becomes important, and sexual fantasies come rushing towards his being from all over the place, and each thing starts taking a sexual color - the dress, the way he walks, the way he talks, the way he looks - everything starts taking a sexual tinge, just like that, at the age of forty-two suddenly death is encountered for the first time...

... thousand and one problems arise. Jung is right: people suffer from something which is not psychological but religious. They need an understanding that can help them to go through death. They need some awareness of the immortality of the soul. They need something that is not part of the body but is part of the beyond, so they can trust it. They need a boat so when they leave the body they can move to the...

... in. All that he can do is a little bit of patchwork. The Master KILLS you, destroys you, in your totality - gives birth to a new man. The Master becomes a mother to you, a womb. To be a disciple is to enter into the womb of the Master. It is a death and a resurrection. Second question: Question 2: STANDING SURELY PROUD WITH ME UNDER THIS SHOWERING SUFI SKY GRACE STREAMING LIGHT LIMBS SONGS FLOWING...

... in that aliveness all around. Cut from all sources of life they will die and stink. Yes, this is prayer: A GRATEFULNESS FALLS AND RISES WITH EACH BREATH AND PEACE FLIES ON BEATING WINGS TO SETTLE DEEP WITHIN MY SOUL... OH OSHO, IS IT PRAYER THAT'S THERE? Yes. This is prayer. Now be watchful. Let it come and let it go.... Never hinder its process. When it comes, feel thankful. When it doesn't come...

.... Don't call it death: call it dying. If you can understand that the whole life is a verb, not a noun, there will be great understanding following it like a shadow. There is no self and there is no other. The great Jewish mystic and philosopher, Martin Buber, says that prayer is the experience of I and thou, a dialogical experience a dialogue. Yes, in the beginning prayer is so, but not in the end. For...

... enlightened, the whole existence became enlightened for me. This is true. I am a witness to it. Exactly that's hove it happens. When you become enlightened, the WHOLE existence becomes full of light and remains full of light. Even darkness becomes luminous, even death becomes a new way of living. The fourth question: Question 4: WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND YOU? I AM SO SIMPLE - something must be...

... life for it? It exists no more, so how can it die? It has gone beyond the duality of life and death. HIS THOUGHTS ARE STILL. HIS WORDS ARE STILL. This is a tremendously important statement. HIS THOUGHTS ARE STILL. That is simple and can be understood, because a man who is alert need not think. Thinking is needed because we cannot see. If a blind man wants to go out of this hall he will have to think...

...: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. HE IS THE CHARIOTEER. HE HAS TAMED HIS HORSES, PRIDE AND THE SENSES. EVEN THE GODS ADMIRE HIM. YIELDING LIKE THE EARTH, JOYOUS AND CLEAR LIKE THE LAKE, STILL AS THE STONE AT THE DOOR, HE IS FREE FROM LIFE AND DEATH. HIS THOUGHTS ARE STILL. HIS WORDS ARE STILL. HIS WORK IS STILLNESS. HE SEES HIS FREEDOM AND IS FREED. THE MASTER SURRENDERS HIS BELIEFS. HE SEES...

... sentiments may be just borrowed. People even can die just because of a borrowed idea. What is a motherland? - an idea which we go on stuffing in the heads of small children. And we go on telling them that to die for the motherland is to be a great man, is to be a martyr; to die for the motherland is the greatest virtue. In the past they used to say the same thing about religions, churches: "To die for...

... the church, to die for your religion, is the sure way to enter into paradise. Instantly you are uplifted into paradise if you die for your religion." Kill others for your religion and it is not sin; die for your own religion and it is not suicide. Killing is not murder, committing suicide is not suicide! Once these ideas have been implanted in your being, imprinted in your being, they start...

... button, and people will think that the ecstasy is happening because of the rosary. And your face will glow.... But if it becomes possible you will be in the same situation as the rat: you will die by pushing your button too much, you will forget everything else. Genital organs have nothing to do with sex; everything is contained in the brain. Your hunger has nothing to do with your stomach; that too is...

... DEATH. The man who has become awakened becomes YIELDING LIKE THE EARTH. He loses all rigidity. He is not like a rock; he is like soft earth. And only the soft earth can be fertile, can be creative. The rock remains impotent; it creates nothing, nothing grows on it, nothing can grow in it. The rock remains utterly empty. But the yielding earth - soft, humble, surrendering, receptive, womblike - can...

... FROM LIFE AND DEATH. And he is not only free from death, remember: the moment you are free from death you are free from this life also - this so-called life. Then there is another life.... Buddha does not name it, he will not give it any definition; he simply leaves it there. He leaves the sentence incomplete, because he knows anything said will destroy the beauty of it. Anything said will give it a...

... limitation, and it is unlimited. Anything said is bound to be inadequate. So he says only one thing: he is free from this life and this death. The life that you have known and the death that happens every day - this life and this death both disappear for the awakened one. Time disappears, and life and death are two sides of time. Then he is eternity. He becomes one with the whole; you cannot find him as a...

... separate entity anywhere. Where is Gautama the Buddha now? Now he is in the air you breathe and in the water you drink and in the birds that go on singing and in the trees and in the clouds. Where is Buddha now? He has become the universe! The dewdrop has become the ocean, but the dewdrop has disappeared as a dewdrop. Now there is no life and death for the dewdrop; it exists no more - how can there be a...

..., those who can be relied upon, are not ready to say anything, and the one who is ready to say cannot be relied upon - he is not enlightened himself. Then the whole gathering told Ananda, "Do one thing - don't waste a single moment. Bring your total energies and become as alert as possible. If you can become enlightened before your death, then something is possible. We will not collect your...

... there; if today I miss, tomorrow; if tomorrow I miss, the day after tomorrow. Where is he going? He is always there." The day Buddha died, he said to Ananda, "Ananda, now I will not be here tomorrow. So make haste, hurry! Now no more postponing." And it happened that after Buddha's death, when the congregation prayed to Ananda, for twenty-four hours he sat with closed eyes. This was for...