..., which means life, day, or whether you are facing the moon, the night, which represents death-it does not make any difference to your buddhahood. Whether your buddha is in darkness or in light, it does not matter. Your self-nature remains the same. "SUN-FACED BUDDHAS, MOON-FACED BUDDHAS." In a very short aphorism, even at the point when he was going to die, he said, "There is going to be...

... stupid. I had committed this stupidity myself, but it is not expected from you. Somebody wants to visit his childhood again-there should be some possibility to go back in time, or to go forward in time if somebody wants to know in advance what kind of old age, what kind of death is going to happen, and when. You have left man stuck in the middle; he can neither go back, nor can he go forward. He has no...

... AND STOOD BEFORE MA TZU AND BENT HIS NECK TO RECEIVE THE STRIKE. He did not hide. He could have, because there were one thousand monks and it would have been very difficult to decide who was the person. But he came out, and if the master wants to cut his head, he is ready. He has come to the master to have a resurrection, to be enlightened, to go beyond death. If this is the way the master chooses...

... no change. Just the sun is setting and the moon will be rising. As far as I am concerned, I am eternal. Whether the sun is in the sky, or the moon is in the sky, I am always here." The master knows no death. He knows eternity. ONE DAY, MA TZU CLIMBED MOUNT SEKIMON, THE MOUNTAIN CLOSE TO HIS TEMPLE AT CHIANG-SI. IN THE FOREST HE DID kinhin, OR WALKING MEDITATION. If you go to Bodhgaya, where...

... DAY OF THE NEXT MONTH, AFTER BATHING, HE QUIETLY SAT DOWN WITH CROSSED LEGS AND PASSED AWAY. The master lives with awareness and dies with awareness. Even a month before, he was aware that death is coming close; his perceptivity, his clarity of perception, is total. So he showed the disciple where his dead body has to be brought, where his samadhi, his grave is going to be. One month before, he told...

... the disciple, and the next month... ON THE FOURTH DAY... AFTER BATHING, HE QUIETLY SAT DOWN WITH CROSSED LEGS AND PASSED AWAY. Death is just a game, moving from one body to another body, or perhaps moving from the body to no body, to the universal oceanic existence. One night a thief entered into Mulla Nasruddin's house. He saw that Mulla Nasruddin was fast asleep and he collected everything that he...

...; Mulla said, "There is no problem, we can share everything. We are partners. Don't miss this opportunity of having a wise man as your partner." But the thief escaped leaving all the things. As far as any master's death is concerned, he is simply changing his house. There is not even a single ripple of sadness, but on the contrary an immense curiosity about the unknown that is opening its...

... doors. This body he has lived in long enough-seventy years, eighty years-it is time to change. The body has become old; it is becoming more and more non-functional. It is time to have a fresh new body. The master is not at all disturbed by the fact that he is going to die. He dies with grace and beauty, he dies in silence and peace-just the way he has lived. He lived in silence, in utter beatitude, he...

... in you, reaches to every fiber and cell of your being, your life will become a dance, a poetry, a music, an eternal beauty, a great grace. Remember this moment, the space you are in. This space has to become your very life, your very death. This blissfulness has made this evening a great beauty, a great truth. Ten thousand buddhas disappearing into the ocean like dewdrops. This is the greatest...

... life-destructive. Ozone turns those life-destructive rays back and allows only life-affirmative rays. Now great holes have been created by the gases that our factories and industries create, and from those holes, death rays from the sun are entering into our atmosphere. This earth has never been so sick; it has never been so much in danger of new diseases. Now the vested interests are not ready to...

... start asking, "Why should we pay for our food?" Then the prices of things will go down. With the prices going down, the farmers will not be interested anymore in producing - what is the point? Afraid of disturbing the economy, they let thirty million people die on the streets and go on drowning the superfluous foodstuff in the ocean. Not only that, exactly thirty million people are dying in...

.... Do you want to die or do you want to live a new life? Die to the past, drop all that has been given as heritage from the past and start fresh, as if you have descended on this earth for the first time. And then start working with nature not as an enemy but as a friend, and ecology will soon be functioning again as an organic unity. The damage can be repaired; it is not difficult to make the earth...

.... A hand that knows the beauty of a roseflower cannot drop a bomb on Hiroshima. A hand that knows the beauty of love is not the hand to keep a gun loaded with death. Just a little contemplation and you will understand what I am saying. I am saying, spread laughter, spread love, spread life-affirmative values, grow more flowers around the earth. Everything that is beautiful, appreciate it, and...

... or there will be no one left alive, not even a single wildflower. Everything will be dead. There are experiments going on in the Soviet Union, and perhaps in America too, with death rays. Rather than dropping a bomb, it is far easier to spread death rays, which simply kill the living people, animals, birds, trees. Only dead things - houses, temples, churches - will remain. It will be really a...

... nightmare. And those death rays are not visible. We know that death rays exist; they are just trying to find out how to spread them, to reach a certain destination and destroy all living beings that come across them. Man has to be freed from these monsters. Our work here, Mutribo, is to teach people consciousness, more awareness, more love, more understanding, more joy, and spread the dance and...

... are unbalanced and there is only one possible cure. You must make love with a woman." "No, no!" cries Pope the Polack, "I can't. All the vows I have taken... I just can't!" "But, your holiness," replies the shrink, "you must or you will die, and this too is a mortal sin." The pope retires for a few days to consider his fate, and then calls the...

... - that I am greatly happy. God is. Though he may delay his decisions for his own reasons which we know not, the prayer is always heard - if not today, then tomorrow." I said, "You are still impatient. The child can die also - what will happen to your love and your trust and your belief in God? With the death of the child, your God will also die. He is born with the child, and with the child...

... beautify it. But all the religions are against life. They say, "Renounce life," and life includes work, life includes love, life includes everything. "Renounce life, because your renunciation of life is going to be, after your death, an entry into paradise." But it is always after death. All these religious people and the politicians are angry with me for the simple reason that I am...

... telling people that life is herenow - not after death - don't wait. And life is in love, life is in being creative, life is in understanding your innermost being. Because only then can you become a constantly overflowing source of beauty, love, and joy. Who cares about life after death? Life is before death, and if you can live totally, there is no death for you. This is the experience of all those who...

... have entered into silence. They have witnessed the greatest miracle: that their innermost core, their consciousness, is eternal. Life can take away the clothes, the bodies, but life cannot destroy you. But only the creator - and a creator out of love - transcends death. WORK IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE. AND IF YOU CANNOT WORK WITH LOVE BUT ONLY WITH DISTASTE, IT IS BETTER THAT YOU SHOULD LEAVE YOUR WORK AND...

... - made him aware, "I have to know myself before death comes." He was just a boy, uneducated - he knew nothing of scriptures, he knew nothing of meditation techniques, but out of his innocence, he simply sat in the hills asking only one question: Who am I? He wanted to know before death came. He was not willing to die without knowing himself. WHO AM I? became his only concern, the ultimate...

... people of this century, Raman Maharishi, had only a simple meditation .... He was uneducated; he left his home when he was seventeen. Somebody, perhaps his mother or father, had died and the shock was so much that for him, the whole world became meaningless. Rather than going to the funeral with the others, he simply escaped into the mountains. The fact - that death is going to take you over any day...

... railway station! You recognize the trees on the way, you recognize the river; it is as if you have seen it in a film, or perhaps in a dream. But you have not seen it in a film; neither have you seen it in a dream. You have seen it in another life. You are full of all the memories of all your past lives. It is just the mercy of existence that it goes on closing each chapter: the moment you die, the...

... past lives, it becomes a proof that there is a future after death, too. The remembrance of past lives also proves that after death you will be here in a different form, with a different name. Also, if it becomes a scientifically proven fact - which I have no doubt it will once science starts moving in that direction and drops the Christian or the Jewish or the Mohammedan idea of only one life...

... with awareness; you have acted enough under the influence of unconsciousness. This wheel of reincarnation is due to unconsciousness. Once you become conscious, you see there is no point: you have achieved success many times, but what is the point? Death comes and erases everything. It is almost like making castles in the sand - a wind comes and the castle is gone. And you start making another castle...

... is it you wish to ask me?" "What are you doing in heaven?" asked little Hymie. "You are not even dead yet!" The poor boy is asking a truth - "Here everybody is thinking you are dead, and you are not dead yet. What are you doing?" But nobody ever dies. Death is the greatest fallacy that man has created. It does not exist, it only appears so. After Paddy had jumped...

... jump from unconsciousness into consciousness. And that is the greatest quantum leap. Buddha is not dead; neither is Jesus nor Zarathustra nor Lao Tzu nor Nanak. Anybody who has lived with full consciousness goes on living without any form. Because there is no form, there is no disease; because there is no form, there is no death; because there is no form, there is no old age. A consciousness without...

... idea that you are material and you are going to remain material; there is nothing more. You are born matter, you will die matter, and nothing will be left; life is only between birth and death, neither before or after. It is a dangerous creed, and half of the world has accepted it. It seems it fulfills some inner necessity of man. Man does not want to be a soul, because to be a soul means a struggle...

... standpoints that Gurdjieff brought a new, original idea, that you are not born with a soul. Remember, unless you create it you will simply die, nothing will be left, you will not survive your bodily death. You can, if you work hard, create the soul. It is not a question of uncovering it - you don't have it right now - it has to be crystallized. But because of his idea - and his idea seems to be significant...

... stage. We have to make the masses clearly aware: "You can die any moment - you may not wake up tomorrow morning, so you cannot waste your time in trivia. Do something essential. Do something that can bring you in touch with eternity. So even if the whole globe dies, it doesn't matter. At least for those who have touched the experience of eternity, for them there is no death." And it is...

... because it avoids the pitfalls of both the theists and the atheists - a new problem is created. The problem is that the greater masses cannot be inspired to make arduous effort; only a few intelligent people.... And I say only a few because even intellectuals will say, "If I die and nothing survives, so what? Once I was not; it was not a problem to me. Before birth I was not; it was not a problem...

... for me because if I am not how can there be any problem for me? After death, if I am not - that seems to be the best solution of the whole problem." So only a few intelligent people became interested in Gurdjieff. And he never hammered on society's vested interests, he never hammered on religious superstitions, he never hammered on political social conditions. He was not interested at all. His...

... to be disturbed... there is anger. Gurdjieff knew exactly what happened with Socrates, what happened with Jesus, what happened with Al-Hillaj Mansoor, what happened with Sarmad - and thousands more who tried to liberate humanity. Humanity rewarded them with death. He was a totally different kind of man, a very practical and pragmatic man. He said, "Why bother about these people and waste my...

... take the risk and start cutting the very roots which are preventing people, and create so many conscious beings around, that the masses cannot think that it is just one man trying to be holier-than-thou. There are thousands... and they can see their actions, their behavior, their love, their compassion, their changed life... and the future is dark, death may take over. We have to use this critical...

... asked the first, "Which do you want -- you can choose -- do you want 'chi-chi' or do you want death?" The man thought about it and he said, "Whatever chi-chi is, it cannot be worse than death." So he said, "I want chi-chi." So he was given the treatment they called chi-chi. He was sexually abused, beaten... and as chi-chi started, he started thinking, "It was better...

... to choose death. These people will kill me by chi-chi, and they are unnecessarily humiliating me." And the other two missionaries were watching what was going on. Then the turn came to the second: "What do you want?" Death is such a dangerous thing... he thought, "One can survive chi-chi, but death you cannot survive." He also said, "Chi-chi." So again the whole...

... game began. All the cannibals were beating him and doing all kinds of stupid sexual perversions -- and the poor missionary had come to save them...! Now the turn came of the third, who was the chief missionary. The chief asked, "What do you think -- chi-chi or death?" He said, "It will be a great mercy if you allow me death. Chi-chi I have seen." But the chief said, "This is...

... acceptable and lovable -- but you seem to be a martyr. Who can be perfect in this world? The world itself is not perfect, because perfection means death. If you want to live, you have to remain a little bit imperfect always, so that you can go on perfecting yourself. Evolution is nothing but a constant imperfection. Imperfection gives you space to grow into. And remember one thing: you will never be...

... billions of human beings no man has died by making love, while making love. Nobody has suffered a heart attack while making love. So for man, woman is almost a commodity to be used for good sleep, for no heart attack, for avoiding death as far as he can. But the woman has been almost tortured. First she has had her orgasmic joy taken away, because man finishes too soon, before the woman has even begun...

..., "Although I can find nothing specific, I have seen cases like this before; often it is some pressure on the brain, which usually results in death after six months to a year." The man became very upset, but then he decided that if indeed he only had such a short time to live, he would enjoy life and do everything he ever wanted. The man loved nice clothes, so he went to the best tailor in...

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... even cling to life - and that is the last clinging. He says, 'Okay. That too is okay. If death is your will, then that is my will too. I welcome it. I will be a host to death.' He passed the last barrier, hence, resurrection; he is reborn. Christianity would have been a better religion. if, rather than emphasising the cross, they emphasised more the resurrected christ - because this is just half of...

... the process; the completion is in resurrection. And making too much fuss about the cross, they missed the whole thing, and the cross became the symbol of christianity. I call it 'crossianity!' And to be concerned too much with the cross is a sort of death-worship. To be concerned too much with the cross means a certain morbidity of the mind, a perversion. Death has to be accepted, welcomed even, but...

... death is just a background to life - never the end... is a means, certainly - but never the end. And because they worshipped the cross, churches became very very serious and sad places. Had they worshipped the resurrected christ, they would have danced. Then churches would have become gay, joyful. People would have danced, and sung and loved and hugged each other, because their lord was the...

... - and he has to fight it all alone. But it is a joy to fight for God, it is joy to be killed in the name of God. There can be no better death, and there can be no better life. To live for God and to die for God - that is in essence what sannyas is all about: to live for God and to die for God. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... is no alternative. The heart knows only one, that's why the heart is always unwavering. And I can see that this sannyas is out of your heart. It is going to transform your whole life. The few days that are left, the last phase of your life, may become the most precious part of your life. It is going to become, because if we can die meditatively, lovingly, prayerfully, then we don't die at all; then...