... opposites. Hence logic has created a fear in you, a fear of death. If you fear death how can you live? Death is involved in life, so if you fear death you will be afraid of life also. Then your whole existence becomes a disease, an illness, a nausea, a deep anxiety, nothing else. If you love, hate is implied there. If you want to separate hate and love you can cut them but both will die - that's the...

... stretch the guest from both ends so that he became consistent in size with the bed, not smaller. Of course the guest would die.... If the guest was longer than the bed, that too happened sometimes, then he would cut off the head or the feet of the guest. Because the bed was so valuable, the guest had to fit with the bed, the bed was not to fit with the guest. That is the whole point in logic: life has...

... somewhere, growing somewhere, flowering somewhere; but you cannot find a logical treatise, you cannot find Aristotle anywhere. Life is paradoxical. One has to put the logical mind a little aside and then look at it. You will see opposites meeting there without any difficulty. Life and death meet - in life they are not two, they are one, only logic has made them appear as two, and not only as two, but as...

... the first time that Alexander followed somebody else's order; just because of the very presence of the man he couldn't remember who he was. He put his sword back in the sheath and said: I have never come across such a beautiful man. And when he was back home he said: It is difficult to kill a man who is ready to die, it is meaningless to kill him. You can kill a person who fights, then there is some...

... brought but they were not SANNYASINS. Then I came across a man who was really something rare, and you have heard rightly, this flower is rare, but nobody can force him, because he is not afraid of death. When a person is not afraid of death how can you force him to do anything? It is your fear that makes you a slave - it is your fear. When you are fearless you are no longer a slave; in fact, it is your...

... you die and the earth eats you back. Then a tree arises, it eats the earth, and a fruit arises. Another man - your son or your son's son, your grandson - will eat the fruit, just as you were eating your grandfather. This goes on, it is a simple circle. Here nobody is the eater and nobody is eaten: everybody eats in his own turn and everybody becomes food in his own turn. Because of this constant...

... circle, George Gurdjieff became aware that man must be food for something. If everything is food then man must also be a food for something, otherwise for what does man exist? He created a myth - it is a myth, but the idea is beautiful - he created the myth that man is food for the moon, that when you die the moon eats you. This is just a joke, but the idea is beautiful, meaningful, because when...

... opposite. The river is going to the ocean where it will disappear, go to its death - but it is not a death, in fact the river will become the ocean. So there can be two standpoints. You can think that the river is dead because it has fallen into the ocean, been absorbed, eaten by the ocean. That is one standpoint. Then there is another standpoint, deeper, that the river has become the ocean again. It was...

... happened before, millions and millions of times it will go on happening again and again in the future. Life is a recurrence, an eternal recurrence and everything moves into its opposite. The whole day you work and in the night you rest: the energy that was active becomes inactive, activity moves into inactivity. The whole of life you lived and then you die: now the total energy which was alive has become...

... death, has moved into the ocean. Again you will come, again and again, that is the meaning of the Hindu concept of rebirth. Islam, Christianity and the Jewish religion are a little poorer because they don't have the concept of rebirth. Their vision seems to be smaller than the Eastern vision which envisions the whole of it - an eternal recurrence. It is beautiful - then you are not afraid of death...

... logical distinctions. He chooses the One, the whole, the whole which comprehends all opposites. He chooses life with death, not life against death; he chooses love with hate, not love against hate - he chooses the whole and becomes the model of the world. Not that he tries to become the model of the world; this is a consequence, it happens by itself. HE DOES NOT REVEAL HIMSELF, AND IS THEREFORE LUMINOUS...

... of human life anymore. It can pass, they suspect, even through breathing. That's why I say it can spread like wildfire. I would not like my people to die from AIDS. Dying is not a problem. I am not afraid of death, but death should be a celebration, it should come out in a joyful, blissful mood. We celebrate death here. We dance, we sing. This is the final goodbye to the person whom we have loved...

... truth as it is. If it hurts, it is your problem. If it creates enemies I am not worried, because the enemies are the first step to becoming my friends. They have already recognized me in their hate. They have already recognized their defeat and death. Now nobody can save them. They cannot ignore me. If they can ignore me, then there is no threat for them. That's why I have to be intense, fiery, and I...

... enough already. One wants some relief. Even if the relief comes after death, one wants to live peacefully and joyously, not starving, not sick, not old, not ugly. Naturally, simple methodology -- "I am the only begotten son of God, I can save you, I have come to save the whole world, those who believe in me I will choose for paradise, and those who don't believe in me will fall into an abysmal...

...? Just to suffer? Just to get hit, just to be crushed under the boots of people who are in power? The hope helps. And that is the methodology of all the religions: give people hope. But the strategy is very cunning: keep the hope beyond death -- because they know perfectly well that hope in this life cannot be fulfilled, and then these same people who are their followers will kill them. So keep the...

... hope beyond death. You can never be caught. Nobody comes back from death to say that these people are lying. So they go on lying, and the more a lie is repeated, day by day, year by year, century by century, for thousands of years... it almost starts sounding as if it is true. Q: SO IS THE POPE A FRAUD? A: Certainly. Absolutely. All religions up to now have been fraud. They have deceived people and...

... itself and the punishment also in the act itself They are not extrinsic, they are intrinsic." But all these religions have been telling people the reward is somewhere far away -- beyond death, and punishment, too. Neither can it be proved, nor can it be disproved; hence their business goes on and on, and mediocre people go on following it. If all these religions disappear two things are possible...

...: either the poor will die out of poverty... Ethiopia will disappear. So what? -- it is better that Ethiopia disappears from the earth, rather than thousands of people dying in hunger. And in hunger you don't die in a day; a man can live hungry for three months. He will become just a skeleton, and what is the point of these three months of torture? So, there are two alternatives if all these great...

.... Either let the poor die, or if you are REALLY compassionate, then stop this wastage of your energy and money for war efforts and drop these boundaries between nations. Let there be only one government -- which is enough! There is no need for America and Soviet Union and India and Ethiopia. Just let there be one global government. Q: WHO WOULD BE ITS PRESIDENT, RONALD REAGAN? A: Certainly not! Q: YOU? A...

... paradise. Q: WHAT'S IT GOING TO TAKE FOR THIS TO HAPPEN? YOU'RE ENOUGH OF A REALIST TO KNOW THAT IT WON'T HAPPEN TOMORROW. A: I don't know. I am simply saying that these are the two alternatives. Either let the poor die and don't make a fuss about it, or, if you are really concerned, then let the nations disappear so there is no need for war. And scientific efforts automatically will go towards making...

..., COULD AFFORD TO PROCREATE. A: No. If they want to live really joyously and luxuriously, there is no need. If they want freedom and equality between man and woman, then it is better to avoid babies. Q: BUT SURELY THE HUMAN RACE WILL DIE OUT OF EXISTENCE IF EVERYBODY DOES THAT? A: No, no. I am not saying that. My proposal is that people stop this accidental creation of babies and start looking for a...

... always for scientific, intelligent efforts because all religions and political efforts have failed. Now there is only one thing left, and that is science. Let us try it once. If that too fails, that means life is impossible on this earth. Perhaps it has come to its death point. Q: IF YOUR PREDICTIONS ARE CORRECT IT WILL BE AIDS THAT WILL REDUCE AND CONTAIN THE WORLD'S POPULATION, BECAUSE YOU HAVE SAID...

... scientifically certain now that there is no remedy for AIDS. The man who has it is going to die within two years' time. Two years is the maximum limit. He may die within six months or two months or six weeks or today, but he cannot live more than two years. And medicine has nothing to help. There is no way, because AIDS is not an ordinary disease. It is a very strange disease. It simply destroys your...

... tongue. Q: SO WHEN YOU GO, WHEN YOU DIE, WILL A WOMAN BECOME THE LEADER OF THE RAJNEESHEES? A: I don't care. I don't care at all. I am a man who is not concerned with past or future. Q: BUT YOU CARE FOR THE FUTURE OF RAJNEESHEES? A: I care in this moment. It is not caring about their future. In this moment I care. What happens tommorrow I have nothing to do with. But in this moment, whatsoever response...

... going to get suffocated and die, you are not going to find it." Because they are sincere, that's why you have to be sincere with them too. They need respect -- but not only respect; they also need a shock so that they can wake up and come out of the boundaries of Catholicism, or Protestantism or Hinduism or Mohammedanism -- that doesn't matter. My work here is to bring everybody out of his prison...

... to the past moment continuously so that you can be alive in the new moment that is coming. Death to the past, life to the present. And the future is going to come to you as present, never as past. Q: THAT MEANS, I THINK, TRY TO LIVE WITHOUT TRADITION. A: Certainly. Q: AND NOW MY QUESTION IS: THIS IDEA THAT YOU TRIED TO DESCRIBE OF LIVING OUT OF THE FULLNESS OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS AND IN THIS MOMENT...

... life. As far as I am concerned, I have come to the point beyond which there is nothing. And I am so.blissful that if somebody wants to assassinate me I don't see any harm in it. People are afraid of death because they have not lived yet and death is coming closer. I have lived, I have tasted the nectar of life. Now there is no problem for me, so I can create as much hostility as possible in the hope...

.... His death was near. He looked, and by the side, there was abysmal darkness. He knew there was a big valley by the side of the mountain and there was no chance of surviving. Finally, his hands started slipping. There was no way to prevent it. But he was in for a great surprise. When the hands slipped and he thought, "This is my last moment," and he prayed to his god in whom he believed, the...

... don't want to go through a revolution, change the whole structure of the society, destroy the whole status quo, throw these governments away... and if you cannot do that, then at least you can die. Don't unnecessarily be a nuisance around. For example, in Ethiopia where thousands of people are dying every day, the priests and the bishops and the popes and politicians are all just sympathy for Ethiopia...

... Ethiopia, then there are two alternatives for them. Stop piling up weapons and divert the whole money and energy towards Ethiopia, and Ethiopia will be saved today. Or, if you cannot do that, then at least do one thing: send your medical people to inject these people with something that takes them into eternal sleep. It is better to die than to starve for ninety days and then die. It is compassionate...

... message to your father?" He said, "Now my father thinks he's dead. And not only my father -- everybody thinks he is no more in the house, he is in his grave!" The misery in Ethiopia is real, objectively real, and these sympathies are not going to help. They are simply keeping people starving, dying. And it is better to die instantly rather than to wait and suffer all kinds of torture that...

... this hungry man is bound to suffer. And this is a thing to be understood, that a normally healthy man can live without food for ninety days, then he will die. Now, making these people suffer for ninety days does not seem to be compassionate. To me it is more compassionate that they are given injections so they go into eternal sleep. And anyway the soul does not die, so what is the problem? All these...

... religions believe that the soul does not die, so what is the problem? Communists believe that when you die, everything dies. Then, too, there is no problem. I don't see a problem from any side. And if Ethiopia is not there, who bothers? What has Ethiopia contributed to the world? Q: DO I UNDERSTAND YOU CORRECTLY, THAT YOU SAY NOBODY SHOULD DO ANYTHING ABOUT ETHIOPIA? A: I am saying either do -- that means...

... stop piling nuclear weapons, that is my first alternative. If you are really sympathetic towards dying people, then why are you creating weapons for death? That is simple hypocrisy. Stop! If you are really concerned with dying people, then whatsoever is happening in Ethiopia is nothing to what has happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those few moments, the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have...

... involved with war, with the preparation for war. And if you cannot do it, then at least don't be a hypocrite. Be direct and say, "Let Ethiopia die. We don't care. We are going to make more nuclear weapons and we are going to have a third world war, and what does it matter?" The whole world is going to end in the third world war. Ethiopia will be saved from nuclear weapons, they will die before...

... that. That's perfectly good. Let them die, but don't be a hypocrite. Q: BHAGWAN, IF PRESIDENT REAGAN WOULD DECIDE TO ASK YOU TO BE HIS ADVISOR, WHAT WOULD YOU ADVISE HIM IN REGARD TO THESE NUCLEAR ARMS? A: Just tell your scientists to find some creative use for all these weapons, because you cannot throw them into the Pacific; sooner or later they will explode just by accident. You cannot throw them...

... weapons. My second alternative is: if that is not possible, then just simply accept the fact that we cannot save Ethiopia, but we can at least help them to die peacefully. We cannot help them to live peacefully, at least we can help them to die peacefully. And that will be really great compassion on the part of politicians. Rather than leaving them starving, dying, getting tortured by hunger.... For...

... changed, but you were always with a body, you were always embodied. There have been certain moments and times when you were not embodied, but then you were not conscious. When you die from one body, you die in unconsciousness and then you remain unconscious. Then you are born again in a new body, but then too you are unconscious. The gap between one death and another birth is unconscious, so you don't...

.... Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. TOSS ATTACHMENT FOR BODY ASIDE, REALIZING I AM EVERYWHERE. ONE WHO IS EVERYWHERE IS JOYOUS. THINKING NO THING WILL LIMITED-SELF UNLIMIT. I have heard a story about an old doctor. One day his assistant phoned him because he was in very great difficulty - his patient was choking himself to death. A billiard ball was stuck in his throat, and the...

... die, is you. For the first time you realize the fact that these bones, this bones - this is you. For the first time you realize the fact that this sex, this anger - this is you. So all the false images fall. You become real. The reality is painful, very painful - that's why we go on hiding it. It is a deep trick. You go on thinking about yourself as the self, and everything that you don't like, you...

... will say that the sleep was very deep, very blissful. You were aware of a deep bliss running throughout, but you were not aware of the body. In deep sleep where are you? When you die, where do you go? Continuously people ask, 'When someone dies, where does he go?' But the question is absurd, foolish. It is related to our embodied consciousness - because we think that we are somewhere, so then when we...

... die, where do we go? - nowhere. When you die, you are not somewhere, that's all. You are not confined to a space, that's all. But if you have a desire to be confined, you will be confined again. Your desire leads you to new confinements. But when you are not in the body, you are nowhere, or, everywhere - this depends on which word appeals to you. If you ask Buddha, he will say you are nowhere...

... see the house from the outside, and you can see the house from the inside. From the outside the outer layer of the walls will be seen; from the inside the inner layer. The mind is your inner layer. It is nearer to you, but it is still a body. In death your outer body drops, but you carry the inner, subtle layer with you. You are so attached to it that even death cannot separate you from your mind...

.... In death the outer dissolves, but the inner is carried. It is a very subtle material thing. Really, just vibrations of energy, thought vibrations. You carry them, and according to your thought pattern that you carry, you enter a new body. According to the thought pattern, the desire pattern, the mind, you again create a new body for yourself. The blue-print is in the mind, and the outer layer is...

... again accumulated. The first sutra is to put aside the body. The second sutra is to put aside the mind, the inner body. Even death cannot separate you - only meditation can separate. That's why meditation is a greater death, it is a deeper surgery - deeper than death itself. That's why so much fear. People go on talking about meditation but they will never do it. They will talk, they can write about...

... it, they can preach about it, but they will never do it. A deep fear exists about meditation, and the fear is of death. Those who do meditation, they come one day or another to the point where they are scared, thrown back. They come to me and they say, 'Now we cannot enter more. It is impossible.' A point comes where one feels that one is dying. And that point is of a deeper death than any death...

... in the stone and in the sky and in the friend and in the enemy - suddenly you are everywhere. The whole existence has become just a mirror - you are everywhere, mirrored. This state is the state of bliss. Now nothing can disturb you, because nothing exists except you. Now nothing can destroy you; nothing exists except you. Now there is no death, because even in death you are. Now nothing is opposed...

... activity. Clouds form and disperse. The sky is never formed and never unformed. The clouds are there sometimes and they are not there at other times. The sky forever is. The existence of the clouds lies in between birth and death. For the existence of the sky there is no birth and no death. The sky is beyond time, it is eternal. The clouds form and disperse within time. The name of this sutra is: KNOWING...

... return him to the soil. You wake up in the morning, you are tired by evening and sleep claims you at night. Birth is also an awakening and death an eventide. We fall back to where we started. But is there something with us like the sky is with the clouds? The tree is born out of the soil. The soil rises towards the sky and becomes the leaves and branches. Then, in this soil - in the form of the tree...

...;method" means action. How can action help one to attain non-action? If a man wants to stop, how can he stop by running? If a man wants to die, he cannot do so by living. How can one attain non-action by action? The youth was distraught with grief. He did not know what to do. He went to the elder disciples who had been there long before him and who must have gone through this same initial training...

... at the guru's hands, and asked for their advice. They said, "Passivity can only be attained in death. As long as you are alive how can there be no action? To live means to be in action. Life is activity." The next day the youth went to Hiutti. On being questioned about his progress, he dropped dead at the guru's feet. The guru said, "Open one eye." He opened an eye and looked at...

... say he has died - as if it is an act he performed. One does not have to do anything in order to die. But our language is the language of action. It is bound to be so because we know life according to the clouds. There is nothing but movement, action, in it. We say to a person, "I love you" - as if love is an act. No one has as yet made love in this world. Love is not an act that you can...

... see death coming closer and closer. I have not been worried about knowledge before, but now that death is approaching, I have to worry about knowledge. If there was no death, perhaps there would have been no need for religious scriptures. My mind is restless and I am afraid. I need something now to hold on to so that I may not be afraid. I find that all the measures I took to protect myself are...

... useless before my approaching death, I made huge fortresses. I have a huge army, well-equipped with guns but what is the use? They cannot save me from death! Find me something to give strength to my trembling mind. I hear old age knock and I tremble like a leaf:" The ministers said, "We can advise you about your palaces and fortresses but in this connection we know nothing." A country...

... it. Then he would smile and fold it back in its case. From then onwards, no one ever found him unhappy or anxious or even angry. Nor did the thought of life or death trouble him anymore. His ministers were eager to know the contents of the magic charm that had brought such a change in their king. It was a small sutra: "This too will pass." If you understand this well, you will know that...

...: "MYRIAD THINGS TAKE SHAPE AND RISE IN ACTIVITY, BUT I WATCH THEM FALL BACK TO REPOSE." If we begin to understand that all forms - whether beautiful or ugly, whether pleasing or repulsive - form and disintegrate, that disintegration is the inevitable rule of creation; that what is born today must die tomorrow, (the flower that blooms today must wither tomorrow) - if we understand that this...

... peacefulness that can be induced by drugs, but it will be the peace of death. The serenity on Buddha's face comes from this returning to the roots. It is a living serenity, born out of repose. Look at the image of Buddha. Observe his face well and you will notice that it feels as though there is a centre within to which his whole image is bound. It seems as if a central focus point controls the whole form...

... person oscillates in a cloud within himself. It is very difficult to think along these lines. By pure thinking alone, one cannot understand this. It is easy to think about a tree - that today it is and tomorrow it shall not be - but it is very difficult to admit that "tomorrow, I too will not be." We all know that everyone must die - "but not me". Everyone knows we are all images of...

... stream of constant change has been set aside. Religion has nothing to do with it. But it has everything to do with religion for it flows within it. It has nothing to do with the clouds. Its search is for the sky in which clouds form and die. One may argue that since the clouds seen in the afternoon are not the same as those in the morning, and those of the evening are quite different from the clouds of...

... man in the world. Just think, if God were to appear this very moment and say that all your desires are fulfilled, what would you do? Where would you go? What would you have to look forward to except death? And yet we are empty, unfulfilled within - because we have not yet begun to search for our destiny. Destiny means: the attainment of which brings satisfaction, fulfilment. Understand the...

... borrowed from someone. People live on borrowed desires. They run after them their whole life. Then, when the desire is attained, they find themselves as empty as ever. But they have no time to think about it because, by then, other people have passed on other desires to them. Every man realises at death that he spent his whole life running after the fulfillment of other people's desires. Then he asks...

... way, joy and sorrow, honour and dishonour etcetera, come and go like the clouds. What is that which sees all? Concentrate on that. Let all channels of your thought be linked to this. Be one with the observer. Break all connections with the doer. Be one with the observer and you will at once feel one with the inner space within, the passive sky. When this happens, all sorrows fade. Death and change...

...? Will THIS life become a foundation for a greater life to come? Or is there nothing but death? Is there only the grave in the end, or something more?" Man is an open being. EVERYTHING is possible, but NOTHING is certain. The beast is absolutely certain. It has a definition. Man has no definition. So when you ask me: WHAT EXACTLY IS MAN? you ask me a wrong question. Man is nothing exactly. He is...

... he exists. Hence he cannot think of death. Death is not a problem for the beast. Death can only become a problem when you know that you are. With that very knowing the fear arises that some day you may not be - because there was a time when you were not, there will again be a time when you will not be. Your existence is momentary. You can disappear any moment. You will disappear some day. Death is...

... bound to happen. It is only man who knows about death. That's why man creates religion. Religion is man's response to the possibility of death. It's man's effort to conquer death. No animal is religious, cannot be. Without the awareness of death religion has no possibility. But before you can become aware of death, you will have to become aware that you are. That's a basic requirement. So man knows he...

..., and imaginations don't stir their hearts. They are simple. Existence has no complexity for them. When they live, they live; when they die, they die. They are innocent. Time has not entered to corrupt their being. But man lives in time. Is aware that he is, but is not aware who he is. And that becomes a great problem: Who am l? This is the fundamental question that any man can ask. Out of this...

... husband, I am the father, I am the mother." Still you have not answered the question. Your being a mother or your being a father is just accidental, on the surface. Your innermost core remains untouched. This is not real identity. This is a pseudo identity. The child will die - then who are you? Then you are not the mother. The husband may leave - then who are you? Then you are no more a wife...

... is in a certain state of contentment. No anxiety, no fear, no death, no ambition, no longing; utterly calm and quiet. But unaware, unconscious. The Buddha is again contented, utterly at peace, at home; has arrived, the journey is finished. There is nowhere to go, he has attained. Between these two is man: half-beast, half-Buddha. Hence the tension: one part moving backwards, one part moving...

... my totality? Unless you come close... and what ELSE is discipleship? - courage to come close to somebody where death is possible, courage to come close to a fire where you will be burnt to ashes. And only then is there resurrection. Jesus was a human being to the Jews who crucified him. But he was not a human being to Luke, to Thomas, to Mark. To the disciples he was Christ, son of God. To the...

...? How can God die? Human beings die; God is eternal. How can God fall ill? And Buddha falls ill. His private physician, Jivaka, has to follow him continuously. Does God need a physician? Only a human being needs a physician. When it is hot, Buddha perspires. What more proof do you need?! When it is cold, he shivers. A thousand and one proofs can be gathered together that he is just like us. What is...

... - but you cannot find elixir directly. It is hidden deep. The first thing that they came across was not elixir but poison. Now who should drink the poison? Shiva drank it. That's why his throat has become blue. Only HE could drink it. You can drink death only when you know you are deathless. When the disciple comes to the Master, he brings all kinds of poisons. Unknowingly he has been nourishing those...

... aware that now there is no tomorrow. If you want to be aware, be aware. And the shock of death helps awareness. Many people at the time of death have become enlightened, although their enlightenment remains unknown, because after it they simply die. Their enlightenment never helps anybody else because there is no time, but still it is great -- at least they have managed it for themselves. IF YOU WANT...

... scratches from the past and remain available and open to the future. Soon the future will also become past. The moment anything becomes past, cut yourself away from it. Then you can die just like an innocent child, then your death will be just like a birth: no past, an innocent mind. And this is the right death because it is not an ending of life, but a beginning of a greater life -- of a life which will...

... WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO GO WRONG WHEN YOU'RE FACING DEATH. THERE'S A SORT OF PERSON WHO READS SCRIPTURES, RECITES THE BUDDHA-NAME AND REPENTS IN THE MORNING, BUT THEN IN THE EVENING RUNS OFF AT THE MOUTH, SLANDERING AND VILIFYING OTHER PEOPLE. THE NEXT DAY HE DOES HOMAGE TO BUDDHA AND REPENTS AS BEFORE. ALL THROUGH THE YEARS TILL THE END OF HIS LIFE HE TAKES THIS AS DAILY RITUAL -- THIS IS EXTREME...

... was just a very ordinary woman, living with Swami Muktananda -- serving him, cooking his food. After the death of Muktananda, she has taken his place. Now her name is Gurumayi, the feminine of the Guru -- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, and she is followed by many people. The book has been sent to me because she is touring around the world and many people are impressed by her. She is the successor of...

... WON'T BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. Do you see how he forgets himself? If things can be done now, in a single moment of awareness, why can't you do it at the moment of death? That too will be a NOW and a single moment. And it will be easier to do at that time than it is now, because now you can postpone for tomorrow. When death is standing in front of you, there is no question of postponing; either...

... you have to do it or not do it. And who would like to carry all his nightmares with him? Ta Hui himself became enlightened just a minute before he was dying. Death can be of immense help, it can be a blessing in disguise, because now there is no future, no tomorrow. You cannot say, "Today I am busy, tomorrow I will meditate." You have to drop all business. Now the only significant thing to...

... be done is to be alert and aware, get rid of all your past, and move into death -- innocent, clean, clear, unburdened. Then your very death becomes the entry into the divine. Then you are not dying; you are entering into eternal life. But Ta Hui says as a thinker, as a teacher, FINALLY, ON THE LAST DAY OF YOUR LIFE, YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. Nothing has to be done. If one has only...

... to become aware, he can become aware any time, whether the next moment is death or not. But death can become a great incentive to do it immediately. Just the idea of tomorrow makes you say, "It's okay, there's no hurry. If not today, then tomorrow" -- and tomorrow never comes. It is always today. And you become habituated to postponing for tomorrow. Death for the first time makes you...

... TO BE ABLE TO AVOID GOING WRONG WHEN YOU FACE THE END OF YOUR LIFE, THEN FROM NOW ON WHENEVER YOU DO ANYTHING, DON'T LET YOURSELF SLIP. He goes on, up and down. Those few sentences were absolutely right. Now again he has come to DOING. IF YOU GO WRONG IN YOUR PRESENT DOINGS, IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO GO WRONG WHEN YOU'RE FACING DEATH. Meditation is not a question of DOING at all. Meditation is a...

..., fresh. This is what the great masters have said: Die each moment to the past, and be reborn for the new, for the fresh, for that which is coming -- dying each moment because past is being created every moment. Your present is nothing but continuously becoming past -- why go on gathering an unnecessary weight? It is better that each moment you go on cutting yourself from the past. Don't carry any...

.... Length: N.A. BELOVED OSHO, CONTEMPLATING "NO". A MONK ASKED CHAO CHOU, "DOES A DOG HAVE BUDDHA-NATURE OR NOT?" CHAO CHOU SAID, "NO." THIS ONE WORD "NO" IS A KNIFE TO SUNDER THE DOUBTING MIND OF BIRTH AND DEATH. THE HANDLE OF THIS KNIFE IS IN ONE'S OWN HAND ALONE: YOU CAN'T HAVE ANYONE ELSE WIELD IT FOR YOU: TO SUCCEED YOU MUST TAKE HOLD OF IT YOURSELF. YOU...

... IT'S THE SAME AS WHEN SPEAKING. YOU WON'T HAVE TO ASK ANYONE ELSE, AND NATURALLY YOU WON'T ACCEPT THE CONFUSING TALK OF FALSE TEACHERS. DURING YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY, YOU SHOULDN'T HOLD TO BIRTH AND DEATH AND THE BUDDHA PATH AS EXISTENT, NOR SHOULD YOU DENY THEM AS NON-EXISTENT. JUST CONTEMPLATE THIS: A MONK ASKED CHAO CHOU, "DOES A DOG HAVE BUDDHA-NATURE OR NOT?"...

...; instead of "No." "DOES A DOG HAVE BUDDHA-NATURE OR NOT?" CHAO CHOU SAID, "Yes." THIS ONE WORD "Yes" IS A KNIFE TO SUNDER THE DOUBTING MIND OF BIRTH AND DEATH. THE HANDLE OF THIS KNIFE IS IN ONE'S OWN HAND ALONE: YOU CAN'T HAVE ANYONE ELSE WIELD IT FOR YOU: TO SUCCEED YOU MUST TAKE HOLD OF IT YOURSELF. YOU CONSENT TO TAKE HOLD OF IT YOURSELF ONLY IF YOU CAN ABANDON...

... YOUR LIFE. Many things are implied in these few sentences. THIS ONE WORD "Yes" IS A KNIFE TO SUNDER THE DOUBTING MIND OF BIRTH AND DEATH. Without knowing, how can you believe that you were before you were born? And how can you believe that you will be after you have died? But if Gautam Buddha says, "Yes, a dog has buddha-nature," that means Buddha is accepting the eternity of life...

... Buddha's cousin-brother, very close; secondly, he was as intelligent as you can hope a person to be -- very erudite, very scholarly. Time went on and Buddha started becoming old. Finally one night Devadatta told him, "It is time you should declare the name of your successor because you are getting old. Without a successor your disciples will break apart into small groups after your death."...

... beings have come from all different directions. It is a gathering of all kinds of animals, and if you watch people you can find from where each person is coming. Just a little watchfulness is needed, alertness, and you can feel that this man seems to be related to a certain species. Ta Hui is saying, THIS ONE WORD "YES" IS A KNIFE TO SUNDER THE DOUBTING MIND OF BIRTH AND DEATH. Now you can...

... see: "No" cannot do that, only "Yes" can do it. If Chao Chou had said, "No. Dogs are dogs and buddhas are buddhas and there is no bridge between them" -- then dogs die as dogs, then there is no evolution for dogs. Then elephants die as elephants, and there is no evolution for elephants. This seems too much. It is man's monopolistic ideology that only man has the...

... THIS ONE WORD becomes A KNIFE TO SUNDER THE DOUBTING MIND OF BIRTH AND DEATH. THE HANDLE OF THIS KNIFE IS IN ONE'S OWN HAND ALONE: YOU CAN'T HAVE ANYONE ELSE WIELD IT FOR YOU: TO SUCCEED YOU MUST TAKE HOLD OF IT YOURSELF. YOU CONSENT TO TAKE HOLD OF IT YOURSELF ONLY IF YOU CAN ABANDON YOUR LIFE ... If you are ready even to abandon your life, you will rise to the ultimate peak of your consciousness...

... to you, nor has noise any disturbance. Then life and death are the same to you: neither life makes you cling to it, nor death makes you run away from it. YOU WON'T HAVE TO ASK ANYONE ELSE, AND NATURALLY YOU WON'T ACCEPT THE CONFUSING TALK OF FALSE TEACHERS. DURING YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY, YOU SHOULD NOT HOLD TO BIRTH AND DEATH AND THE BUDDHA PATH AS EXISTENT, NOR SHOULD YOU...

... DENY THEM AS NON-EXISTENT. What he is saying is that all these categories of existence or non-existence, life and death, misery and happiness, all these categories belong to the mind. A person who is ready to abandon life is naturally ready to abandon mind, because mind is only a small part of your life. It is not all of it. Once you are ready to take the jump, the jump is no more needed. Only your...

... can be known of what will happen to his life. He is risking everything, his kingdom, his wife, his child, himself, in search of enlightenment -- something he has only heard of as a possibility, which has happened before to a few people who have looked for it. He was as full of doubts as any one of you, but the moment of decision had come ... That very day he had seen death, he had seen old age, he...

... had seen sickness and he had also seen a sannyasin for the first time. It had become an ultimate question in him: "If there is death, then just wasting time in the palace is dangerous. Before death comes I have to find something that is beyond death." He was determined to leave. But the human mind, human nature ... He just wanted to see the face -- he has not even seen the face of his own...

... Buddha, "Then why are you leaving me out? Don't you want to share what you have found with your old father? My death is very close ... initiate me also." Buddha said, "I had come, in fact, just to take you all with me, because what I have found is a far greater kingdom -- a kingdom that is going to last forever, which cannot be conquered. I had come here so that you could feel my...

... doesn't change, then it will die any day. It changes so continuously that it cannot die, because change means a renewal of life energy. Truth is eternal, but not non-changing. Truth is eternal because of eternal change. It renews itself continuously. It never allows anything dead into itself; it simply throws it out. It never accumulates the dead parts, because through those dead parts descends death...

.... Mind will die, mind will have to die because it accumulates death. Life never dies because it goes on changing. Remember this: Truth is not permanent, it is eternal. And it is eternal because it is not permanent. It is eternal because it is constantly changing. Through change it survives. Through change it becomes new. Through constantly changing, it becomes elusive to death. The death cannot take...

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... BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT SEE. If you want to see you have to die to your ego - because that ego won't allow you to see, to be natural, to allow the fact to emerge. Die to the ego. Die to the past. And the Sufi saying is right: 'You cannot have anything from me until you die.' Die! It is hard, but it is the only way. You cannot have anything from me until you die. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

...Until You Die...

...; Gurdjieff's chief disciple, Ouspensky, was dying, but he would not lie down. He continued walking. He was dying, and he was aware that death was just about to come - but he would not lie down. Physicians insisted, persuaded, but he would not lie down. He said, "No, I am going to die walking. I am going to die consciously." He used even death to create will, and he died walking. He was the first...

... cannot bring it; you cannot force yourself into sleep. You can force yourself not to take food or to take more food; that is a voluntary thing. But sleep is a non-voluntary phenomenon. You cannot force yourself. And when sleep comes you will not be able, with your ego, to be awake. But you can insist. You can say, "Whatsoever happens, I will not sleep. I am ready to die, but not to sleep."...

... man in the whole history of humanity who died walking - consciously. Consider, contemplate, what was happening inside of him. It is not simply sleep - it is death. And he was not ready to surrender even to death. Mm? This is an anti-surrender path. He was not ready even to surrender to death. He continued to fight. He went on walking for three days and three nights. The body was very ill, old. Those...

... who were keeping watch over him couldn't follow him - they had to sleep. So someone would sleep and someone else would watch him. A group of twelve persons continued watching him, but for three days continuously, night and day, he continued walking. He would not sit. He would not allow any terms, any compromise with death. He died a crystallized man. He used death to create will. You can fight with...

.... It looks impossible, it appears impossible; it is impossible for the ego - not for you. It is impossible for the ego because ego cannot attain it. Rather, in attaining it ego will die. The old yoga scriptures say, "Hear whatsoever the Teacher says and follow it - because he is your Self. Whatsoever he is saying, it is your own inner voice." So they say the real Teacher, the real Guru...

..., your basic motive will be fear-oriented. These three things. No silence will be possible because there is a crowd, a conflicting crowd of tensions and tensions and conflicts. anxiety and anguish, but no silence, no happiness - because happiness belongs to the center, not to the ego. And there will be fearorientation because ego is constantly afraid of death - because ego is just a construct. It is...

... not a reality, so it is afraid of death. The Self is never afraid of death, the Self has never known death. Death is impossible to the center - to the real center. Deathlessness is the very quality of it, its nature. So remember these three things. Mind will be a constant tension, anguish, a longing for happiness, but no experience; and everything will be trembling, fear-oriented. Your religion will...

... society, not come at all to you; which you have always been - before your birth, after your death; that which you will be, which you have been, which you are; unless you find that, you are not a centered being, you go on living on the periphery. This peripheral existence has been called SANSAR - the world, the this. This centered existence is called the Nirvana - the That. Question 2: OSHO, HOW CAN ONE...

... know whether I was serving a right man or whether I was just deluded as he is deluded - because I have been a part in this. So just before my death, let me know it. I want to know." So the prostitute went. It was midnight and the monk was meditating - the last meditation of the night. The moment he saw that the prostitute was coming... he knew her, and he knew well. She belonged to the same...