.... Then don't create any misery for yourself. But the life for which you are going to be untrue will be taken away from you sooner or later. Death is certain. So if you want to live in an untrue society, comfortably - then live comfortably. But that comfort is not leading you anywhere except death. Whatsoever you call a comfortable and convenient life, I call only a comfortable way to die. It is slow...

... can you do? You can avoid, but WHO will avoid? - the stupid mind will avoid. In avoiding, you will do the same stupidity again. A stupid person... and all persons are stupid unless they become aware and alert. All persons are stupid. So when I say stupid, I don't mean any condemnation - I simply indicate a state of unawareness. Everybody is born stupid. Fortunate are the few who don't die stupid...

... ago.' You don't say 'death'. That word is too real and hits too hard. 'Left for heavenly abode....' Who are you deceiving? - not the wife who has already left. You are deceiving yourself. You are afraid of death. You are hiding death in a beautiful terminology: 'heavenly abode'. Now there is no fear; in fact, even a little desire to go yourself. The basic problem is death. You have made a code and...

... food for him, and he was just going to take the first bite. He dropped it and rushed towards the door. Then he stopped at the door for a single moment, came back, and started eating. Rukhamani was puzzled. She said: 'What is the matter? You rushed towards the door as if there is some great emergency, as if the house is on fire or something, or somebody is going to die. And then you stopped, and then...

.... Crucify your ego and you will resurrect into a greater infinite life. Question 2: DOES A BUDDHA ALSO NEED SOMETHING AS A COMPLEMENTARY? WHO IS COMPLEMENTARY TO A BUDDHA? Buddha or Buddhahood is not any polarity. It is not opposite to anything. It is beyond the duality. Night is against day. Life is against death. Love is against hate. Buddhahood is not against anything. It is to transcend the duality...

.... When you are neither day nor night, you are a Buddha. When you are neither life nor death, you are a Buddha. When you are neither this nor that, NETI NETI, you are a Buddha. Buddhahood simply means transcendence of duality. So Buddhahood is all and nothing. There is nothing as polar opposite to, and there is no complementary to it. Remember this: you would like to become a Buddha because you would...

... define something by another undefined thing? 'What is matter?' - you say: 'Not mind.' And when it is asked: 'What is mind?' you bring matter in - that it is not matter. Dualities depend on each other. You cannot define love without bringing hate in. What type of love is this which needs hate to be defined? You cannot define life without bringing death in. This life cannot be much of a life. What type...

... of life is this which needs death to define it? There is a life beyond life and death, and there is a love beyond love and hate. That love, that life, is Buddhahood - transcending all the opposites. So don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof; don't choose. The moment you choose, you have fallen into the trap of...

... so many people be liars? Why should so many people live a life of lies? It is arduous. It is TAPASCHARYA. It is austerity. When you start - becoming authentic, you will be in conflict. But that conflict is worth it. It is the price one has to pay to attain to inner life. One has to pay it. You cannot avoid it. If you want a life of infinite bliss, a life which is beyond death, a life which is...

... will have to lose the false to gain the true. You will have to lose darkness to attain to light. You will have to lose death to become really, authentically alive. That is the price one has to pay! But you are so egoistic that you cling. You feel: 'If this love disappears then I will be empty.' And your ego creates a problem: 'Maybe it is false. Let it be false. Something is there. The ego can feed...

... should not even be mentioned; death should not be mentioned either. Sex and death are the two points: one is the beginning, the other is the end. People are kept unaware of both. About sex, it is dirty; about death, it is dangerous and gloomy... don't talk about it. It is always somebody else who dies, don't be worried. But in reality, you are born out of sex, and you are going to die. That which is...

.... And of course, his father was concerned and worried - he did not want him to become a saint. He was his only son, and he wanted him to become a world conqueror. He asked the astrologers how to prevent him from becoming a saint. Those idiots advised that he should be surrounded with pleasure: "Don't let him know that there is misery. Don't let him know that there is sickness, old age, death...

... continuous luxury - he became fed up. And suddenly, when he saw one sick man, it was a shock, because for twenty-nine years he had been kept unaware of sickness, old age, or death. And when he saw these things... how long can you prevent? Even twenty-nine years must have been very difficult for the father to manage him not to see a flower dying, or a pale leaf falling from the tree. In the night, the...

... inside him which will survive even death, or if there is nothing. He is an inquirer." Gautam Buddha was going to inaugurate the annual festival of youth. He told the charioteer, "Take me back home. I am no longer interested in the festival. I have been cheated. For twenty-nine years I have not been allowed to know the truth." That very night he escaped from the house. And because he was...

... born out of sex is going to disappear in death. Sex and death are the two points of the same energy. That which appears in sex, disappears in death. And both have to be understood, because both are the most important points in your life, and both have to be accepted and lived. But religions like Christianity and Jainism are very repressive. Their very repression makes people guilty, sinners. They...

.... In the ultimate, birth and death are one, they both arise from the same source. It is a wave arising in the ocean; you call it birth, and then the wave disappears into the ocean and you call it death. In the relative, you can call it the birth of something and the death of something, but in the absolute, nothing is ever born, and nothing ever dies, everything simply is. This isness is so vast that...

... HERE, I WILL ANSWER WITH TWO PHRASES." He is saying that if you don't go in by yourself, and somebody else has to show you the way, the oneness of inside becomes two, a duality of the mind. Anything said is dual; only the unsaid is non-dual. You say day and it includes night; you say life and it includes death. You say man and it includes woman. You say this - and it includes that. You cannot...

... becomes totally new and fresh, young, alive. He radiates love and compassion and joy. Question 4: Maneesha's question: BELOVED OSHO, PHILIP KAPLEAU WRITES IN HIS BOOK, 'THE THREE PILLARS OF ZEN': "THE DRIVE TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT IS POWERED ON THE ONE HAND BY A PAINFULLY FELT INNER BONDAGE - BOTH A FRUSTRATION WITH LIFE AND A FEAR OF DEATH - AND ON THE OTHER HAND, BY THE CONVICTION THAT THROUGH...

... terms of drive, motives, ambitions, desires. Zen is not a motivation. It is not an effort to reach somewhere. It has no goal, it cannot have a drive. "The drive towards enlightenment is powered on the one hand..." - it is not a drive in the first place, and in the second place, it is nothing to do with bondage, or a frustration with life, or a fear of death. It has nothing to do with fear...

.... Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. The first question: WHY SHOULD SILENCE BE THREATENING? SILENCE IS GREAT DEATH, THE GREATEST THAT one can pass through. The ordinary death is nothing compared to it, because in the ordinary death you still carry the seed of being reborn. The ordinary death is not real death. One dies really in silence - that is utter death. Hence the fear. Zen calls it 'The Great...

... Death'. Why call it death? - because when you are silent, you are not. You ARE only when you are noisy; you ARE only when the mind is full of garbage; you ARE only when mind is mad. In madness you ARE: in health you disappear. Neurosis is very substantially needed for the ego to exist. Once the neurosis is gone, the chattering mind disappeared, you are not. Not that nothing is; something is, but you...

... cannot identify yourself with that something. Something unknown, never known before, never even dreamed about, something utterly unfamiliar, something very disconnected from you, discontinuous with you - hence the fear. In silence you commit suicide. That's what sannyas is all about. In India we have the same word for death and for ultimate meditation - SAMADHI. Samadhi has two meanings: death and the...

... ultimate attainment of super-consciousness. Very significant, indicates two aspects of that ultimate silence. On one hand you die - as you have always been you will never be again. That old man simply evaporates.It is not modified, it is not continuous in any way. It has nothing to do with the new consciousness that arises in you. The new is ABSOLUTELY new. So on one hand you die, on the other hand a new...

... become humbleness. But when the ego disappears, it simply disappears leaving no trace behind - not even of humbleness. Hence the fear. One trembles to take the jump. It is committing suicide. You ask: WHY SHOULD SILENCE BE THREATENING? One: it is a death. Second: all that you know about your mind, all that you know about yourself, all that you are identified with, has been given to you by the society...

... possible; that is not possible in the very nature of things. You have left that home, you cannot go back. You will have to seek your home somewhere further ahead. You will have to create a home and warmth and everything again. The mother will be needed, otherwise the human child will die. Exactly that is the function of the Master; exactly, precisely that is the function of the Master. When you come to...

.... And whenever creative energy is not allowed to have its own say, it turns sour, it becomes bitter, it becomes poisonous. Man has not suffered from eros, no, not at all. Man has suffered from anti-eros. When you are anti-eros, THANATOS - death - becomes your god. Death is worshipped. Money is dead, so is politics, so is ego - all dead things become very, very important. And you worship these dead...

... Osho From Death to Deathlessness: Belief is a barrier, trust is a bridge Main Books Headers Help Your browser does not support iframes. < Prev  Osho From Death to Deathlessness   Next > Belief is a barrier, trust is a bridge From: Osho Date: Fri, 4 August 1985 00:00:00 GMT Book Title: From Death to Deathlessness Chapter #: 3 Location: am in Rajneeshmandir Archive Code: N.A...

... to live and die. It is only pure entertainment. You have just to laugh and enjoy. My real work is going on underground. Whatever I am doing is just creating a situation so your head is engaged. And my real approach, my target, is your heart, not your skull. And it is the best way I have found to sort out people. Those who approach me rationally will soon find the way towards Santa Fe. Santa Fe is...

... sex. And one thing you must remember: men have died in all kinds of actions - people have died praying - but nobody has ever died while making love. In the whole history of man... not a single exception. Strange. People die in all kinds of situations - because there are so many people, and so many people have been before, and before them, it seems to be logical that somebody will die while making...

... love. Somebody will die just walking on the street, somebody will die doing something good: painting, music, poetry - or serving the poor. But biology has its own ways. It has made it intrinsically impossible for a man to die while he is making love. Although all the religions have been teaching just the opposite, that if you make love you will die sooner, it is not medically true. The people who...

...From Death to Deathlessness...

... back alive, because in those days the method of crucifixion, the Jewish method, was so old-fashioned that it used to take at least twenty-four hours to forty-eight hours for a person to die - and he was taken down from the cross after six hours, and he was a young man, only thirty-three. Perhaps he was not dead. It was a very slow process of death - very torturous because it was very slow. We are...

..., the Mandukya Upanishad, is one of the most fundamental, because in a very essential way it describes the innermost core and also the ultimate reach of human consciousness The ordinary mind is dual; it thinks in terms of twoness: light and dark, day and night, summer and winter, life and death, good and bad, moral and immoral, extrovert and introvert, the real and the unreal, the momentary and the...

... come to see the merger of the within and the without, when one has come to see the oneness of life and death, when there is no division left, that state is awakening. Before that everybody is a little bit schizophrenic because the divided mind divides you. Then you are divided into the lower and the higher, then you are divided into the conscious and the unconscious, the body and the soul, and so on...

... he even reached the airport and came back home. Finally he had to look for the real cause why so many times he had been canceling it, and he had to take note of it: that he was afraid of seeing dead bodies, four thousand years old. Maybe he was still a little far away from the truth, but he had been looking in the right direction. He was afraid of death; those dead bodies would remind him of his...

... own death. These two things are in some way connected. Going to a man like Ramana is passing through the death of the ego, because the only way to go to the awakened is to go in deep surrender and trust. It is a death, far deeper than the physical death. He avoided Ramana, and still he went on saying things about the East which are not true, because he had never experienced the Eastern depth of...

... is certainly a miracle! I don't call it a miracle when Jesus walks on water - even if he does, so what? - but I call it a miracle that he escaped from the Jewish conditioning. That is a miracle, a true miracle. I don't call it a miracle if he makes Lazarus come back from death - maybe he was just in a coma, perhaps he was not really dead. I don't call it a miracle that Jesus after crucifixion comes...

....... When all the blood has gone out of the body and nothing is left behind, then only will you die. So I don't call resurrection a great miracle, but getting out of the Jewish tradition, getting out of the Jewish conditioning is certainly a miracle. Buddha getting out of the Hindu fold, the Hindu mob psychology, was doing a tremendous act, a great rebellion - effacing the whole mind. That's what he did...

... side is desert and death; inside you may try to hide, you may survive - not all animals are going to die. But thinking of yourself as a hunted animal will take all the air out of the balloon of the Christian paradise. It is all hot air. Very foolishly they have chosen the word paradise. But ninety-nine percent of those people were scholars only trained in words, knowing nothing of reality, knowing...

... perfectly conceive that millions must have died - knocking on this door - died again, and died again"... because you cannot really die, you are eternal. So you will have to die again and knock, and die and knock.... He cannot believe how much time has passed and he has been knocking and knocking and knocking. He starts feeling that he is becoming again old and death is coming, and he is still...

... praying.... Now he becomes a little angry. His whole life he has been praying, but no answer.... "One can understand that everything will happen after death. Now death has happened, and I am faced with this closed door. There is not even anybody here I can inquire from to get any information. At least there must be an inquiry office. People must be coming here and knocking on this door. "I can...

.... He was perspiring, trembling, and it was a cold night. And he had met only the guard; he had been only up to the gate, outside! This is a vast universe. Our sun is a very young boy, but already declining. There are many ancient people in the sky; this sun has been born after them and will die before them. Even the sun, which has a really inexhaustible, almost inexhaustible source of energy, is...

.... Attributes have been given to enlightenment: that there is experience of truth, experience of authenticity, experience of love, experience of compassion, experience of eternity, experience of freedom from space-time bondage, experience of freedom from life-death bondage - in short, experience of freedom from all kinds of dualities. These are all big words, and they have puzzled humanity for centuries; and...

... conclusion means a full stop has come, the last page has arrived. A conclusion means a death, and life is always on and on and on. There is no beginning and no end. I cannot give you a conclusive answer to your question, What is the most significant thing about enlightenment? But this much I can certainly say, that enlightenment is the most insignificant phenomenon in existence. That's why people are not...

... from, because I had not read it yet. But when I repeated it just the shock of those strange words made my grandfather silent. He died in that silence. To live in silence is beautiful, but to die in silence is far more beautiful, because death is like an Everest, the highest peak in the Himalayas. Although nobody taught me, I learned much in that moment of his silence. I saw myself repeating something...

... to function through them. Right now I can see that my lips are dry; now, that much can be done by anything from the outside. I am speaking, but the dry lips are creating trouble. I will manage, but they are a hindrance. Devageet, you can help - do your trick. That will be a good break from this introductory note and then I can start. Thank you.... Now the story. Death is not the end but only the...

... culmination of one's whole life, a climax. It is not that you are finished but you are transported to another body. That is what the easterners call "the wheel." It goes on turning and turning. Yes, it can be stopped, but the way to stop it is not when you are dying. That is one of the lessons, the greatest lesson I learned from my grandfather's death. He was crying, with tears in his eyes, and...

... death I have remembered one of my own deaths." That life and death happened in Tibet. That is the only country which knows, very scientifically, how to stop the wheel. Then I started chanting something. Neither my grandmother could understand, nor my dying grandfather, nor my servant Bhoora, who was listening intently from the outside. And what is more, neither could I understand a single word of...

... a witness. Let it happen, don't interfere. Remember, remember, remember that you are only a witness; that is your true nature. If you can die remembering, the wheel is stopped." I repeated the bardo thodal for my dying grandfather without even knowing what I was doing. It was strange - not only that I repeated it, but also that he became utterly silent listening to it. Perhaps Tibetan was...

... such a strange thing to hear. He may never have heard a single word in Tibetan before; he may not even have known that there was a country called Tibet. Even in his death he became utterly attentive and silent. The bardo worked although he could not understand it. Sometimes things you don't understand work; they work just because you don't understand. No great surgeon can operate on his own child...

... saying it. I have heard many great speakers, and he was just a poor man, but his words were pure honey, so sweet and nourishing, and so pregnant with meaning. "But," he told me, "you are not to tell anybody that I have been speaking to you, until I die, because many people think I am deaf. It is good for me that they think so. Many think that I am mad - that is even better as far as I am...

... thing again. He said some nonsense, "YUDDLE FUDDLE SHUDDLE...." The police said, "This man is mad. What are we going to write in our reports: 'YUDDLE FUDDLE SHUDDLE'? What does it mean? Can anyone make any sense out of it?" So he remained there until he was stolen back again by a crowd from the original town. That was my town where I was living soon after the death of my...

... went there in search for his lost tribe. Jesus also went there after his so-called crucifixion. I'm calling it so-called because it did not really happen, he remained alive. After six hours on the cross Jesus was not dead. The way Jews used to crucify people was such a crude method that it took almost thirty-six hours for a person to die. It was arranged by a very rich disciple of Jesus that the...

... resurrection. I have asked them, "If he was resurrected, then when did he die? You have to prove that." If after the crucifixion he was resurrected, then he must either have died or he must still be around. -- They don't have any description of his death. I was condemned because I was simply saying what is absolutely logical, scientific, rational. The people you are talking about were not...

... mentioned belong to the first category. And that is the difference between a mystic and a politician. It hurts, because from the very childhood you have been brought up with a certain way of thinking. Jesus is crucified -- just think -- a man who brings people alive after four days of death! And killed by his own people... because he was a Jew, remember, he never was a Christian, he never heard the word...

... scientific fact: that the Jewish crucifixion takes at least forty-eight hours for a person to die because he is not hung by the neck, he is nailed to the cross by the hands and the feet, so drop by drop the blood goes out. It takes a healthy man forty-eight hours to die, and Jesus was only thirty-three -- perfectly healthy. He could not have died in six hours, nobody has ever died that way in six hours...

... myself. I have not paid a single rupee for my body and one day I will die and nobody will pay a single rupee for it. Half a million dollars is a perfectly good price. But why give it to somebody else and put him into trouble? I am ready to die, just give half a million dollars to my work; and it is negotiable!. Q: WHEN YOU WERE IN DELHI AND KULU LAST TIME THERE WERE REPORTS THAT THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT...

..., should be allowed to reach me. Those were the two conditions. I cannot accept it; I never accept any conditions. I am a free man and I would like to die a free man. Even if it is by a bullet, it doesn't matter. But I cannot become a slave of such conditions. What is the point of living if I am living under such conditions that I should remain in India and no foreign disciples should be allowed to reach...

... me? That is almost killing me; that will be a living death. They were going to take my passport because I wanted to move around all the Christian countries. That's why I left India before -- to make them aware that they can kill me, but they cannot kill my spirit. Now I am in India again and I will fight the Indian government if any conditions are imposed on me. Foreign devotees will be coming to...

... now China has been ahead. We will be the poorest country in the world. Fifty percent of the population will be dying all around. Just think... if fifty percent of the people are going to die around you. In this room... one hundred people are present, if fifty people die... what about the fifty who will be living with fifty ghosts?... their life will not be much of a life. You don't have a government...

... silence -- fully alert and conscious -- remains. The same happens when you die. If you have been meditating, then death is not a new experience. You will be surprised that in your meditation you have been dying every day, and you have been coming back to life every day. Such a person dies very consciously, so he knows what death is -- and such a person remains conscious in the mother's womb. He is also...

... known, but has been dormant in your unconscious. Life has a mechanism that whenever a person dies, unless he is enlightened, he becomes almost unconscious; he goes into a coma before death, actual death, happens. So he knows nothing about the death, and he remains in a state of coma till he is born again. All those nine months in the mother's womb are a state of coma; the child is fast asleep twenty...

...-four hours a day for nine months. It rarely happens that somebody dies consciously. It happens only to great meditators, who know well the path death will be coming on because in their meditations they have traveled on the path again and again -- it is the same path. As they go deep in their meditation the body is left far away, mind is left far away, the heart is left far away; only a beautiful...

... agreed -- that life is a continuity; death comes millions of times. Death is only a change of the body, a change of the house, and this process goes on -- unless you become totally enlightened. Then there is no need to enter another womb, because life was just a school, a training; you have completed it. Your enlightenment is the culmination of your education about existence. Now you need not enter...

... be consciousness, then there is no problem of forgetting it. Then these experiences will go with you. And in your future life you will be growing further ahead, from consciousness to superconsciousness; you will be going beyond these experiences. But if you remain satisfied with your glimpses, there is every danger they will be erased. Death is such a shock and such a surgery and such a long coma...

... hurry to finish it, because if anything remains clinging it will enforce you again. So go very slowly; there is no hurry, and there is no harm. It does not matter -- at the most you may die two years earlier. But anyway, what were you going to do in those two years -- just smoke... more! So there is no harm anyway; the world is too populated, and if people go on disappearing a little earlier, making...

... competition, drop all ambition... it is futile. And life is not a struggle. Darwin is absolutely wrong to say that it is a violent struggle... that only the fittest survive. Even if you die loving people, even if you die loving existence, it is good. In your death there will be immortality. Even if you survive, hating, fighting, struggling, your life will be worse than death. God is revealed only through...

... about love, all about life. He will live a neurotic life of greed, and will accumulate money and will die accumulating it. Now the symbolic drove him crazy. I am giving you this name so that you can remember it. This is one of the basic problems of humanity. The world 'god' has become more important than god himself. The word god is not god. The statue in the temple is not god, neither is the temple a...

.... It has nothing to do with money or kingdom. It has nothing to do with power over people. And if somebody waits to enjoy life only when he has so much money, and so much power, and such a big kingdom, then he is never going to enjoy. He will die a beggar. [Osho told the story of alexander the great, meeting the mystic, Diogenes. Alexander felt envious of Diogenes' obvious contentment with life, but...