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... citizens -- a Pole, a Czech, and a Jew -- were accused of spying and sentenced to death. Each was granted a last wish. "I want my ashes scattered over the grave of Karl Marx," said the Pole. "I want my ashes scattered over the grave of Lenin," said the Czech. "And I," said the Jew, "want my ashes scattered over the grave of Comrade Gorbachev." "But that is...

... impossible!" he was told. "Gorbachev is not dead yet." "Fine," said the Jew, "I can wait." You should not wait. Start from this moment to listen, to be silent, because the next moment is not certain. Gorbachev may die, may not die. Tomorrow it may not be so easy as it is today, because in twenty-four hours you will have gathered more garbage in your head; so the sooner...

... like a wheel -- life is not an exception. Death is the end of one wheel and the beginning of another. Again you will be a child, and again you will be young, and again you will be old. It has been so since the beginning, and it is going to be so to the very end -- until you become so enlightened that you can jump out of the vicious circle and can enter into a totally different law. From individuality...

... become really wise in your old age, because you hate old age; old age reminds you only of death, nothing else. Old age means the full stop is not far away; you have come to the terminus -- just one whistle more, and the train will stop. I had an agreement with my grandfather. He loved his feet to be massaged, and I had told him, "Remember, when I say `comma,' that means be alert; the semi-colon is...

... save, in seventy years' time, seven minutes for yourself, I will count you a wise man. But it is difficult to save even seven minutes in your whole life; so how can you find yourself? How can you know the mystery of your being, of your life? How can you understand that death is not an end? Because you have missed experiencing life itself, you are going to miss the great experience of death, too...

...; otherwise, there is nothing to be afraid of in death. It is a beautiful sleep, a dreamless sleep, a sleep that is needed for you to move into another body, silently and peacefully. It is a surgical phenomenon; it is almost like anesthesia. Death is a friend, not a foe. Once you understand death as a friend, and start living life without any fear that it is only a very small time span of seventy years...

... hurry. One will enjoy when life brings youth, one will enjoy when life brings old age and one will enjoy when life brings death. You simply know one thing -- how to enjoy everything that you come across, how to transform it into a celebration. I call the authentic religion the art of transforming everything into a celebration, into a song, into a dance. An old man walked into a health clinic and told...

.... And you can be grateful only if you have not missed anything; otherwise there will be repentance. I am against sacrifice. Sacrifice is a strategy to exploit people. I want you to live each moment not sacrificing anything, so when you die you can die with a song on your lips, with a great thankfulness in your eyes. This is the way a religious man should die. But to achieve such a beautiful death...

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... manipulated to sacrifice himself, either for ideas or for ideals. And to sacrifice your life for something else means you stop living, you start committing suicide. You start murdering yourself so slowly that you don't become aware of it. But every man who has sacrificed his life for any goal, realizes at the moment of death that he missed the train, that he has been a fool. "Always sacrifice. Don't...

... war. Naturally, the politicians are bound to say, "The nation is far bigger than you, and you should not be selfish. You should be ready to sacrifice your life for the nation" - not only for the nation, but a piece of cloth they call the flag. You have to die for it! Intelligent people have been conditioned for such a foolish thing, and they have been doing it for thousands of years. What...

... into the old patterns" - and that has happened. Now Pakistan is separate from India, Bangladesh is separate from India, Punjab is asking for independence; Assam is asking for independence, and fighting. Soon all those two thousand kingdoms will be there. India will simply evaporate. And millions of people suffered, went to jail, were sentenced to death. They were romantic people, not realistic...

..., blissful, after my death?" Confucius said, "You idiot! Why are you bothering about the time after death? If you want to be peaceful, be peaceful here, now. Be more loving and more enjoying now. All dance has to happen now. And as far as your peace is concerned, in the grave you will be peaceful, completely peaceful, no disturbance. Leave it for the grave. And I am not interested beyond the...

... cunning exploitation. You have such a small life, and everybody is asking you to sacrifice it! They use big words, but don't be deceived by these people. Rejoice now, because if there is a tomorrow you will be able to rejoice more deeply. If there is no tomorrow, who cares? We have rejoiced already! Either way, I am making you victorious, you cannot be defeated. You rejoice before death, and if there is...

... something after death, you will be able - you will know all ways of rejoicing, you will rejoice there. And if there is nothing after death, there is no problem. You have lived your life so intensely, so rejoicingly, so blissfully, there is no need for any more time. A man of understanding can live the whole eternity in a single moment! And the fools may live an eternal life, sacrificing for the tomorrow...

...-conditioning. This is the only commune where, while I am talking to you, you can laugh, you can enjoy, you can dance, you can do anything - because your laughter connects you to me more than your sitting there sad, with a long face. You cannot laugh in a church the way you are doing here. Just looking at Jesus Christ hanging on the cross all laughter will die. In fact, for the first time we are giving...

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... will die - the death is coming. Mulla Nasrudin was going on a world tour and he was travelling in a ship for the first time, and he was very seasick. The captain came to him and said, 'Don't be worried, Nasrudin. I have been working as a captain for twenty years and I have never seen any man die from seasickness. Don't be worried.' Mulla said, 'My god! That was my only hope - that I will die. You...

... have taken even that hope!' People are living just in the hope that some day or other they are going to die. So they go on saying to themselves, 'Don't lose heart - death is coming.' If you are waiting for death, if you are so bored, then there is no possibility for any encounter with god. The encounter can only happen in radiance, in sharpness, in awareness. But why do we get bored? The buddhist...

... ordinarily be seen when you are asleep, when you are unconscious. Shake all the dust from the eyes. Be skillful and live life consciously. Otherwise life becomes boring. You feel it. You know how it feels. Sooner or later everything feels boring; one is bored to death. One goes on living because one is not courageous enough to commit suicide. One goes on living just in the hope that sooner or later one...

.... Then time has also to be circular, because time is nothing but pure movement. If you think about time as circular then the whole world view changes. Your whole life is also circular according to the eastern way of seeing. A child is born. Birth is the beginning of a circle, death is the end of the circle. And the old man in his last moments again becomes as helpless as a child. And if things have...

... continue to repeat. Just think about it. If you come across the whole record and you see that for millions of times you have been falling in love, and every time you were miserable.... Now it is time enough to understand. Now don't be foolish again. If you see that for millions of times you were born and you died again, and every birth brings death, then now what is the point in clinging to life. Then...

... again in your memory. Then you have to go back to the death that happened in the last life. Then go on moving to the birth in the last life. And this way one goes on moving back and back and back. And the more you practise it, the more you become efficient in revealing all the mysteries that you have been carrying. You are carrying a great record, and if you can relive it, you will be able to find out...

... to be born again. Then you don't want to cling. Then you are not afraid of death. Then you don't want to be confined in any womb, in any body. You don't want to be embodied again. You would like absolute freedom. This learning can be done in two ways - either while you are living, learn it.... If you do that, you will become a Buddha, slowly. If you have not done that, then go backwards and relive...

... the Exit"... those words have become very faint; they have almost disappeared. We know only the entrance into life, we don't know the exit. Entrance of course we know, because we have entered many times. Again and again we enter in the womb. Here you die and there you enter; almost within minutes, at the most within days. Here you die... even while dying, your mind starts planning where to...

... you. Then any passing influence distracts you. Love knows single purposeness because love is really of the heart. If you are here with me through the heart, then it is a totally different relationship Then it is going to be eternal. Then I can die, you can die, but the relationship cannot die. But if it is only of the head, if you are simply convinced by what I am saying, not convinced by what I am...

... do, nowhere to focus his mind. The whole turmoil goes in and in - he becomes a turmoil. Psychologists say that retired persons die ten years earlier than they would have died if they had still been occupied. What happens? Why is it so difficult to be with yourself? And you always think that others should feel happy with you - your wife should feel happy with you, your husband should feel happy with...

... very important, significant - the whole world will stop if you die. What will happen to the world when you are not there? When you were not there, what was happening? The world was a little more at peace, that's all. When you are not there, there will be a little less trouble in the world, that's all - because one uneasy person will have disappeared, and he was creating uneasiness in others. But to...

.... Otherwise, what would have happened to Napoleon? If he had faced himself, then he would have seen that he was a beggar - and that would have been too much. He died an emperor. Before his death he ordered how he should be given the last send-off, every detail. Nobody was there to follow those details because nobody was interested. But he gave the orders, and he must have died at ease thinking that he was...

.... That's why death is so difficult. Death has nothing dangerous in it, it is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the world - you simply go to sleep! And everything goes to sleep: a seed sprouts and then there is a tree; then again, seeds come and they fall down and go to sleep; then again they will arise. After every activity a rest is needed. Life is an activity, death is a rest. It has to be there...

... so new life may arise out of it. Nothing is wrong in death, nothing is dangerous in death. But why is everybody so afraid of dying? - because at the moment of death all your fictions will disappear; at the moment of death you will see that your whole life has been a wastage. Why do people say that at the moment of death a person comes to see his whole life? It happens, it is true: at the moment of...

... death a person has to face his whole life, because now there is no future and he cannot create any more fictions. For fictions the future is needed, because fictions exist in hope, fictions are for tomorrow. Death brings home the fact that now there is no tomorrow; tomorrows are finished, now there is no future. Where can you dream? Where can you project your fictions now? Nowhere to go! Suddenly you...

... are stuck. And your whole life you have been creating fictions in the future. Now you are stuck, there is no future - where will you look? You have to look at the past, and at the moment of death the society is disappearing; you have to look at yourself, there is nothing left. Then you come to realize the pain, the anguish of a whole life wasted. If it can happen to you before death, you become a...

... religious man. A religious man is one who has realized before death that which everybody realizes in death. A religious man is one who has looked while still alive - looked into the past, seen through the whole game, realized the fictitiousness of his life - looked into himself. If you look into yourself the change is certain, absolutely certain, because once the fiction is realized as a fiction it starts...

... always reminded of Him. He who is constantly aware of death cannot forget God. He who forgets death, forgets God. We all have no awareness of death. We live as if we are never going to die, therefore we forget to remember God. MAKE A MAIDEN OF YOUR BODY. The Nath-Sampradaya as well as many tantric sects seek a virgin for their sadhana. Through a distinctive tantric sexual union meditation is attained...

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... remembrance on the fact of being a sannyasin from the very beginning. These words of Nanak are directed towards the holy men of the Nath-Sampradaya, an influential sect in those days. Their ashrams were spread throughout the country. Their founder, Gorakhnath, was a potent leader, but after his death the methods fell into the hands of ordinary people and they became shallow and useless. The sadhus of this...

...; finally it had been realized that it was more likely that the child would not die when the ear or the nose was pierced. The method evolved through the experience of thousands of years, and is the result of a fundamental change in the life energy as a result of the piercing. In Russia experiments with Kirlian photography have arrived at significant conclusions. The whole play of health, illness, birth...

... and death of a human being involves the flow of electrical energy within. This flow of energy can be diverted at certain points and transformed. It can be made to flow in whatever direction is required, and it can also be stopped from flowing in a particular direction. The art of acupuncture is based on this. When a person is ill, needles are inserted into particular places on the body. The prick of...

... of your energy: the energy that was about to become anger has become tranquility. Posture is a framework, a template, a die. Energy is neutral. It assumes whatever shape you give it. It is like water. Pour it in a glass tumbler and it assumes the shape of the tumbler; pour it into a pot and it takes the form of the pot. Energy does likewise; give it the form of anger and it becomes anger, give it...

... welcomed you with stones?" Puran replied, "I would still feel kindly towards them, for they will only have beaten me, they haven't killed me. They could also have killed me." "And," said Buddha, "what if they killed you? What would your feelings be at the time of death?" "I would still feel how kind they were to have relieved me of life where I could have stumbled...

..., throw away the sack of arrogance and ego that you are carrying. Discover egolessness, shyness and contentment, and your roots will have begun to spread towards God. AND APPLY THE SACRED ASH OF MEDITATION. Merely smearing ash on the body is of no avail. Develop meditation within, Nanak exhorts, let that be your sacred ash; be smeared with meditation. ESTABLISH DEATH AS YOUR BEDROLL... so that you are...

... knowledge, therefore their kindness is false. If a Jain muni take a step so carefully that no ant inadvertently die under his feet, don't think it is out of pity for the ant. Mahavir had done so out of his great compassion, but not so the Jain muni. He watches his step merely to guard against the sin of killing an ant. Understand his concern: if he commits sin he will have to wander in the cycle of birth...

... and death; so his concern is for himself, not with the ant. If the ant's death were not a sin, he wouldn't bother at all. He even strains the water he drinks - not out of concern for the germs in the water, but for fear of the sin of swallowing the germ. Outwardly his actions are the same as Mahavir's, but he is only involved with his own salvation, trying to save himself from hell. His kindness is...

... entailed sin. They left off farming because plants had to die for the harvest to be collected. They shunned the violence of the battlefield. All that was left was to be a shop-keeper, a tradesman. It is noteworthy that 90 MAKE KNOWLEDGE YOUR PLEASURE AND COMPASSION YOUR STOREHOUSE. Offering of food and feasts for the poor continue in the world, but they are only external expressions. Both the Nath...

...." "Tell me about it later," said the man in the well. "first get me out of here." "But I have renounced all actions," said the monk. "Actions lead to attachments, and attachments cause a man to wander in samsara. I want to free myself from the cycle of birth and death. I don't want to start another karmic cycle by pulling you out of the well. Who knows what you...

.... He who is born must die. That which is obtained is also lost. That which is a possession today is a calamity tomorrow. Today's happiness is tomorrow's unhappiness. Each thing moves into its opposite. The wheel of samsara turns on uniting and parting. You meet today; you part tomorrow. He who understands that truth - that the wheel of samsara turns with the help of union and separation, that it...

... Upanishad belongs to someone who knew both paths, and who knew deeply, so he goes on changing his track from one language to the other. And those languages are contradictory. If you understand this, then there can be no confusion. Question 2: OSHO, YOU SAID THAT LIFE EXISTS IN POLAR OPPOSITES - BIRTH AND DEATH, GOOD AND EVIL, PEACE AND VIOLENCE, KINDNESS AND CRUELTY, BEAUTY AND UGLINESS. IT SEEMS THAT...

... cannot be - it is too much, it is boring and heavy. One has to escape. So saints have their own tricks to escape from their sainthood. You cannot be the whole time a sinner. It is difficult - impossible! You will fall down, you will die. You will have to move! So it happens sometimes that sinners will do such saintly acts that you cannot even conceive of saints doing them. Sometimes sinners are so...

... beyond them. For example, let us look from some other direction: man has been fighting with death continuously. The whole history of science is nothing but a fight against death. The history of medicine, the history of the human mind, is a fight against death. Now we have prolonged life. Man is now living the longest, but no human society was so much afraid of death as we are afraid of death. Now, in...

... birthday, then the death-day will be continuously before you. No animal is afraid of death because no animal is aware of birth. Primitive societies are not afraid of death, but they are not aware of birth either. Death happens as birth happens, and there is no counting of how long they have lived. The more precise your counting becomes, the more afraid you become of death. Now America is in the grip of...

... death because time consciousness has come to apeak. Everyone is aware. The longest life becomes possible and death becomes more black. Why? It is a deep balance. If you go on prolonging life, you are prolonging your death also. If you live long, your death will also be a long spread-out affair. Both grow continuously and simultaneously. You cannot escape; you cannot choose. Really, we have found every...

... even to exist for a single day will be such a tedious affair. All around MAHATMAS! You will simply die of them. Now life is a constant polarity. The richness comes from the polar opposite - from both opposites existing together. Religion is not a choosing between these two. Religion is just understanding this polarity and then remaining in a non-choosing attitude. A religious man lives without...

..., there is only beginning and no end. And in the beginning is silence. Perhaps the UPANISHADS are too much influenced by the enlightened experience. There is a beginning when your mind disappears, leaving space for eternal silence, but there is no end for your self. Of course you will die as far as others are concerned - you will live as far as you are concerned. Death is others' opinion about you. For...

... TO EAT. AS IF IT'S A GAME, THE CAT SEEMS TO GET SO MUCH PLEASURE OUT OF TORTURING THE POOR MOUSE. I HAVE OFTEN FOUND MYSELF INTERVENING ON THE POOR MOUSE'S BEHALF. IS CRUELTY AN INHERENT QUALITY OF EXISTENCE OR A PART OF OUR BIOLOGY, OR WHAT? Cruelty is a misunderstanding. It arises in us because of the fear of death. We don't want to die, so before anybody else kills you, you would like to kill...

...Death is others' opinion about you...

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... have been telling you, go on spreading in as many ways as possible. Use all the news media, use everything that technology has provided, so that the word reaches to every nook and corner of the earth. And remember, it is far more powerful than any nuclear weapons because nuclear weapons can only bring death - that is not power. But the word which has come from an enlightened consciousness can bring...

... group, and he takes possession of the women of the old monkey who is now sitting on the lowest branch. Just like Richard Nixon - nobody cares, nobody bothers: you have failed. Or Jimmy Carter, just starting his business of peanuts again without even feeling ashamed that from president to peanuts it is a long fall. But what else to do? And these people will not be heard of again unless they die. Then...

... there may be a little information in the newspapers that the ex-president of the great America has died. Cruelty is nothing but a competitive spirit to be the first. If it means violence, then violence - but one has to be the first. It is there in the animals; it is in man. But why this rush to be the first? The existential reason is death. Life is uncertain: you are alive today, tomorrow you may not...

... cruelty exists - it disappears only when you know there is no death. When you experience something immortal in you, all cruelty disappears. Then it does not matter. You need not run, you can just go on a morning walk. And if somebody pushes you, you can let him go ahead of you because the poor fellow does not know that the world is infinite, life is infinite. There is no way of missing anything - if not...

...; That man can repress his cruelty, but it will come out in some other way, from some other source. Approach rightly. There is fear in every man of death. There is fear that life is short and competition is tough, so unless you are violent enough you are going to be a loser. But the reality is that only the nonviolent ones are victorious; everybody else is a loser. Question 3: BELOVED OSHO, DO YOU SEE...

... king. Anand Ajata. Anand means bliss; ajata means unborn. Bliss is unborn, hence it cannot die. That which is born is bound to die: birth brings death in. Birth is the beginning of death, so whatsoever is born is going to die. Whatsoever has a beginning is going to have an end. Bliss has no beginning and it has no end; it is eternal, it is timeless, deathless. We are made of it. In fact the whole...

... songs through us. Sannyas means to let this understanding become the foundation of your life: We are not, God is. Let the ego disappear, evaporate, and you will find infinite contentment. With the ego there is only misery; without the ego there is only God; and God is bliss, and God is benediction, and God is ecstasy. Die to the ego so that God can live in you. Deva Monika. Deva means divine; monika...

...;ME" AND "MINE" IN RESPECT TO OTHER OBJECTS, IS CALLED a jivanmukta. EGOLESSNESS IS JIVANMUKTI. Egolessness is a great death. When you die only your body dies; when you attain MUKTI, freedom, your mind dies. In the old scriptures the master, the guru, is known also as death: ACHARYO MRITYU. The teacher is death, great death. He IS, because through him your ego dies; he kills you. In a...

... way he is death, and in a way eternal life, because when the ego is no more, for the first time you ARE. Die to be reborn. Jesus says, "Whosoever loses himself, attains, and whosoever clings to himself loses." Now be ready to lose yourself in the meditation, so that you attain. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... death. If I say, "Be receptive," the mind will then say, "Then you will die. Be aggressive if you want to exist and survive. The fittest survives. The most aggressive one survives. If you are just receptive, you will die." That is why receptivity is never understood -- not heard, not understood. This receptivity has been said in so many ways. Someone says, "Surrender." It...

...." The turtle says, "Don't be foolish. Don't think me stupid. You may sting me in the middle of the stream, and I will drown and die." The scorpion said, "I am not foolish; rather, you are foolish, because you do not know simple logic. I belong to the Aristotelian school, I am a logician. So I will teach you a simple lesson in logic. If I sting you and if you are drowned and dead, I...

... will also die with you. So be sensible, be logical. I will not sting you. I cannot sting you." The turtle thought for a moment and then said, "Okay! It seems sensible. Hop on me, and off we go." And exactly in midstream the sting comes. They both are sinking down. Before the turtle dies it asks, "Where has your logic gone? You have done a very illogical thing, and you yourself...

... said that this is simple logic, that you would never do it, and now you have done it. Tell me before I die. Let me learn another lesson of your logic." The scorpion says, "It is not a question of logic at all, it is just my nature. I cannot be without it. I can talk about it, but I cannot be without it. I am incapable, really." Something which you are incapable of doing or not doing...

... receptive, the advice goes unheard. The mind cannot think of how it can be receptive. Mind has known only one thing in which it has been receptive, and that is death, in which the mind has not been able to do anything, then it could not act. The only thing that the mind has known in which it has to be receptive is death. So whenever someone says, "Be receptive," somewhere in the shadows you feel...

..., is the mind. And this mind goes on continuing. This mind will go on continuing, unless you become aware. And this is a miracle: that the moment you become aware the continuity is broken. Now you will be, but not of the past. Now you will be of the moment -- fresh, young, new. Now each moment you will die, and you will be reborn. Somewhere, St. Augustine says, "I die every moment." One who...

... has become aware of one's whole mind and its whole process, the continuity, the past continuing itself and carrying on and forcing itself into the future -- one who has become aware of this will die each moment. Each moment the past will be thrown out. One will be fresh, new and young, ready to jump into the new moment that is coming on. Only this fresh consciousness, this young consciousness...

... tragedy, this dilemma of the human mind, is that the mind is closed. The mind is closed and it goes on searching for that which will be freedom. The mind is an imprisonment, and this imprisonment goes on seeking freedom. This is the whole tragedy of human existence. This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the mind as us, we...

... are identified with it. This death of mind never happens to us, it never occurs to us. Mind is something other than "me." But we go on being identified with the mind. How then can you come out of the past if you have become identified with the past? The one who has forgotten that he is a prisoner is the most imprisoned, because there is no possibility of his freedom then. But even that...

... angry, you feel that he is sympathetic to you. But if someone says your mind is mad, your mind is ill, you are mentally deranged, then you become angry. Then you do not feel he is sympathetic to you. He does not seem friendly. With the body this is a new association, only of this birth. Other bodies have died with which you have been in association, but this body association is broken with each death...

... methods. Continuously, for six years, he was in a struggle of life and death. He did everything that could be done. Then, at last, he was so tired of doing, so deadly tired, that one day when he was taking his evening bath in the Niranjana River near Bodhgaya, he felt so weak and so tired that he could not come out of the river. He just clung to a root of a tree and a thought came to his mind, "I...

... have become so weak, I cannot even cross this small river. How will I be alive to cross the whole ocean of the world? I have done everything, and I have not found the divine. I have only tired my body." He felt that he was on the verge of death. At that very moment he felt that he had done everything, and now there was nothing to do. He relaxed, and new energy came upon him because of his...