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... - no, you have not loved anybody. You know it well, but still you avoid it. And you go on thinking that you love. And you go on thinking that you are a great lover. If you were a great lover, you would have already attained. Even if you had loved a single person totally, the God would have been unveiled already, the Truth in its total nakedness would have been realized - because love is death of all...

... - because if you love, then how can pain exist? If you love, then how can suffering exist? If you love, then why so much agony? It is not consistent. If you have loved then you will be ecstatic, but you are not and you go on pretending. In the name of love you have done many other things but not love - because unless you die, you cannot love. Unless the ego disappears, the love cannot come to flower. Then...

... themselves, they are not means to anything else. And if you convert them into means, you miss the point. Enjoy them! It is just like in the morning when you go for a walk, and the sun is rising, and the new day is born, and again life resurrects. Out of the death in the night, everything revives: the trees are coming back, the birds becoming alive, and a fresh breeze is blowing. You go for a morning walk...

... prayer, a love, needs you in your totality. Not even a part of you should be left behind watching and calculating, manipulating. You should be in it - not a fragment of you, but you in your wholeness. That's why prayer becomes holy, because you are wholly in it. To be whole is to be holy and there is no other holiness. Bhattoji died. This is the meaning of the saying: 'Until you die' - disappeared...

... have already fallen?' The Confucian said, 'That is not the point; the individual is not the point. Individuals come and go - the question is the society. But you can die with the deep consolation in your mind that it will not happen again to anybody else.' Confucius is a social reformer. Then came a Christian missionary. He looked in the well. Even before the man said anything, he opened his bag; a...

... remains, you will always miss something; whatsoever you do, you will miss something. Once the self is not there, the bridegroom has arrived. Now whatsoever you do will be a feast, whatsoever you do will be a celebration. Die first as you are so that the Divine can be born in you. Right are the Sufis when they say: 'You cannot achieve anything until you die.' Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

...Until You Die...

..., a great thankfulness. Then it reaches, it succeeds, it is heard. Then it becomes a communion between you and God, it becomes a bridge. But only a prayer that arises out of bliss becomes a bridge. Any other prayer is a wall instead of being a bridge. [Make God the foundation for your life temple, Osho tells Deva Peter] Except for God, everything will be destroyed by death, hence only God can be the...

... true rock The rock represents the eternal, the timeless, the deathless. Once God becomes the foundation of your life you move away from time into timelessness, you move beyond death into immortality. And that's what sannyas is all about: making God the foundation of your life. [God is not the petals but the perfume] God simply represents the totality of the universe. God is not separate from the...

... possibility of all these three dimensions. Love is animal when it is simply biological, sexual; when it is confined to the body, when it has no other depth; when it is only a momentary desire under the grip of biology. You are possessed by the biology; you are not free, you are a slave. Nature tries to use you to perpetuate the species you belong to. It is nature's way of avoiding death. You are bound to...

... die, but your children may live. Before they die nature will force them to produce more children. This is nature's arrangement for immortality. Nature is not interested in individuals, it is interested in species. It has no concern with you or me; its whole concern is with humanity. But the animal love keeps you in a very ugly state. To be a slave is to be ugly, hence those who have never known...

... if I threaten to kill myself, I make you very helpless, because you may not like to take the responsibility of my death on yourself. Gandhi once undertook such a fast unto death to put pressure on Ambedkar, leader of the millions of India's untouchables. And Ambedkar had to yield, not because he agreed that the cause for which Gandhi fasted was right, but because he did not want to let Gandhi die...

... kill you I give you a choice to die with dignity, to tell me you would rather die than yield to my view which is wrong. But when I threaten you with my own death, then I deprive you of the option to die with dignity; I put you in a real dilemma. Either you have to yield and accept that you are in the wrong, or you take the responsibility of my death on you. You are going to suffer guilt in every way...

... kind of intimate enmity. Time was when even enemies were friends, and now even friends are enemies., And this is very significant in the larger context of life. It is worth knowing that when my enemy dies, something in me dies with him. Not only my enemy dies, with his death I too die in some measure. My being has been bound with the being of my enemy, so with his death a part of me dies at the same...

..., Gandhi thinks fasting is a kind of right means to a right end. And he resorts to fasting - fast unto death every now and then. But I can never accept fasting as a right means, nor will Krishna agree with Gandhi. If a threat to kill another person is wrong, how can a threat to kill oneself be right? If it is wrong of me to make you accept what I say by pointing a gun at you, how can it become right if I...

... make you accept the same thing by turning the gun to point it at myself? A wrong does not cease to be a wrong just by turning the point of a gun. In a sense it would be a greater wrong on my part if I ask you to accept my views with the threat that if you don't I am going to kill myself. If I threaten to kill you, you have an option, a moral opportunity to die and refuse to yield to my pressure. But...

... our dreams and desires, but it is never really achieved. Gandhi could not say at the time of his death that he had attained to his lofty ends of truth and non-violence and celibacy, for which he worked hard throughout his life. He died experimenting with them. If the means were right, then why did he not achieve his ends? What was the difficulty? If the means are right, there should be no difficulty...

... traffic accidents in Delhi during the last ten years. If fifty have died in the current year, forty-five died last year, and forty the year before last, we can predict that next year fifty-five people are going to die in traffic accidents. And this forecast will prove true to a large extent. But we cannot say who these fifty-five people will be individually. We cannot ferret them out and identify them...

... don't have the courage to steal me it is better you had not thought of me." Although times change and old systems die, making way for the new, something of the past remains with us. We forget that what we call a baraat - a wedding procession - today is nothing but a remnant of old times when armed troops were sent with the lover to forcibly bring his beloved from the house of her parents. Even...

... ego intact. Love is the death of the ego, which remains unaffected by ordinary suffering. So the devotee prays for a suffering that can efface him altogether. He prays for love s suffering. That is why Krishna just laughs on hearing Kunta s prayer; he does not say a word. Sometimes a smile, a giggle can say more than words do; words are not that articulate. And if you use words where a smile is...

... Bhishma in the battle, but in the evening they gather together to mourn his death, that they have lost such a valuable man. This is strange. The Mahabharat proclaims that even enemies can fight in a friendly way. But it is just the opposite today: even as friends we are inimical to each other. There was a time when wars were made in a friendly way, and now even friendship is not friendship; it is just a...

... time. Not only I lose something with the death of my friend, I also lose when my enemy dies. After all, even my enemy is as much part of my life as a friend is. So it is not good to be very inimical to our enemies, because in some deeper sense even enemies are friends. In the same way, friends are also enemies. Why is it so? As I have been explaining to you these few days, the polarities into which...

.... Hearing the same thing you forget that it is subject to doubt, that it needs to be thought over. Hearing that there is a soul brings you great satisfaction. You know pretty well that the body will die; it gives you much courage when you are told the soul won't die. You find great solace hearing, "The soul will never die; that fire can't burn in, the weapons can't pierce it, death can't cause any...

... meaning is: in this world, only consciousness is yours. The word atman means: that which is your own. Regardless of how much the rest may appear to you as your own, it is alien. All of that which you otherwise claim as yours - friends, loved ones, family, wealth, fame, high position, a great empire - it is all a deception. Because one day death will snatch it all away from you. So death is the criterion...

... for determining who is your own and who is the stranger. That which death can separate you from, know that it didn't belong to you, and that which it can't, was indeed your own. So atman means: one's own. But the moment we think in therms of "mine", the other comes in. "Mine" in itself means, "Someone else who belongs to me." It never occurs to you that except your own...

... heard someone was drowning. I could have easily ignored his screams and walked away but instead I immediately jumped into the lake and saved the man at the risk of my own life." The emperor said, "You did the right thing but if you had walked away without rescuing the man, wouldn't that man's death have followed you the rest of your life? Outwardly you could have ignored, but inside you his...

... there. He does not allow me to live peacefully, of course, but he didn't let me die either.'" The emperor said, "You are better than the other two; but what you did was no altruism either. Why? Because you are filled with ego, as if you have accomplished something great. The glimmer in your eyes. Your whole demeanor is boastful and self-serving. And any act that creates the ego can no longer...

... will meet death and gain nothing from your son. And your son will continue to follow the same stupidity - he will keep expectations from his son. No, this won't help. Look at your own self - neither at someone who will follow you, nor at anyone who preceded you. No one is yours. No son can ever fulfill you. No relationship can ever be a substitute for your soul. You alone are your own friend. A...

... wife's death. The words he uttered hearing the news are worth noting. He said, "Good riddance!" His disciples interpreted these words to mean non-attachment. But if you will give a little thought, it would be clear this is not non-attachment. Because the very idea of getting rid of wife shows she was still being seen as a botheration even after twenty years. The arithmetic is quite clear. The...

... wife left behind twenty years ago must have been following like a shadow. She must have been haunting him all the time - weighing upon him. Even after twenty years he had not been able to free himself from her thought. His mind must have been debating all along whether what he did was right or wrong. The words, "Good riddance" at the instance of wife's death say nothing about the wife, they...

... to be understood as well. The fact that at the death of his wife the first thing which occurred to him was "good riddance" shows that knowingly or unknowingly, the desire for her death must have been lurking somewhere in the unconscious. This requires to take a deeper look at it. At some level he must have wished that she be dead, finished forever; but this shows violence. Every word that...

... we utter doesn't just come from out of the blue, without a reason. Every word comes from our innermost parts. And in such moments when the news of wife's death has just arrived, you don't react through the everyday normal attentive state. After an hour or so you become aware of it and then you begin to rationalize what you said, you patch it up. But that would all be a falsehood. In that very...

... Himalayas by no. The wife is not the source of your troubles. Because even in the Himalayas you'll find a wife for you. The trouble is within you. You can't live alone. You need the other. You are scared when left to yourself, but when someone else is around, you feel safe and confident. Why? The presence of the other makes one feel assured that in the time of need there will be someone, in life or death...

... tapascharya, the real spiritual practice. It does not mean standing under the hot sun. Except man, all other animals and birds live under the sun - none of them is on the way to moksha. Also, spiritual practice does not mean abstaining from food, going on fast; as it is, half of the world is starving to death. Fasting does not lead anyone to moksha. Nothing will come out of tormenting, torturing the body...

... - it is self-destruction and the greatest sin ever. Only stupid people enter into such sins. Those who possess even a little bit of awareness would not do such foolish things. If forcing the other to starve is wrong, how can starving oneself to death be right? If torturing the other is violent, how can self-torturing be a non-violent act? Violence is in the very act of torture - it makes no...

... your death all your desires will come together and become a seed. That very seed will consequently be the new life in the womb. You start fresh from where you left off. Whatsoever you are is of your own making. Don't blame others. As a matter of fact, there is no one whom you can blame. Basically it is the cumulative effect of your own actions. Whatsoever you are - beautiful or ugly, happy or unhappy...

... this fear - because this fear perpetuates itself; it becomes bigger and bigger and it drowns you in its mud. THE DEATH OF SOUL IS THE DESTRUCTION OF LIFE; BUT DEATH OF LIFE IS THE SOUL'S SALVATION. Don't be afraid to die as an ego - because the moment you die as an ego, you are reborn. Let the ego be crucified, and you will have resurrection. The death of the self is the salvation of the soul. That's...

... SOMEONE WHOSE GUIDE IS LOVE, BELIEF AND DISBELIEF ARE EQUALLY A VEIL, CONCEALING THE DOORWAY OF THE FRIEND; HIS VERY BEING IS A VEIL WHICH HIDES GOD'S ESSENCE. UNTIL YOU THROW YOUR SWORD AWAY, YOU'LL NOT BECOME A SHIELD UNTIL YOU LAY YOUR CROWN ASIDE, YOU'LL NOT BE FIT TO LEAD. THE DEATH OF SOUL IS THE DESTRUCTION OF LIFE; BUT DEATH OF LIFE IS THE SOU'S SALVATION. NEVER STAND STILL ON THE PATH: BECOME...

... happy, you don't want to be unhappy, but unhappiness is part of happiness. See this duality. Love and hate are together, birth and death are together. Go and watch it in your life: everything you will find is part of its opposite. And the problem, the dilemma, is that we want to drop half and we want to keep the other half. This is not possible: you cannot drop one side of a coin and keep the other...

... word. Hopefear is one word, painpleasure is one word, birthdeath is one word. Once you remember that these dualities are not dualities, then something of tremendous importance has been understood. Now if you want to, you can keep both - but who wants to keep hate, and who wants to keep death, and who wants to keep misery? Then drop both. And in that disappearance, the barrier between you and reality...

..., the moment you remain in a choiceless awareness, suddenly a great illumination happens. Then it doesn't matter whether you live or die, because all is one. It does not matter what happens to you, because your deepest core always remains beyond all happenings. You are neither a sinner nor a saint then. Taoists, Sufis, Zen people, they never call their masters saints - never; they call them sages. And...

... insecurity. You have money in the bank, but the bank can go bankrupt - what kind of security is there? You have a strong body, but even the strongest body can become ill: you can have a heart attack, sooner or later death is going to overtake you. You have a beautiful body, it can become ugly any moment - a car accident or anything. You have a beautiful woman who loves you, but tomorrow she may fall in...

... its obsession with security it cripples you, paralyzes you. And to trade aliveness for survival is the fundamental evil. Drop this fear of insecurity. Love insecurity, because insecurity is life. Don't live out of fear, because one who lives out of fear does not really live, he only vegetates. Those who live out of fear live constantly focussed on death. And those who are focussed on death go on...

... missing life, because how can you enjoy life if you are constantly thinking of death? If a man is afraid of adventures, then he will remain closed. He will live almost in a grave. Then he will find that fear is everywhere: all kinds of fears will torment him, he will become paranoid. He will not be able to live at all; he will at the most survive. He only survives, he does not live. You have to drop...

..., but the death is a Sunday; then he dies, but he dies fulfilled. He has no complaints. He lived the way he wanted to live. If I am going to die and God asks me, 'If I send you back, how would you like to live?' I will say, 'The same. I loved it. I enjoyed it. I would like to live the same way.' Just think about you. If you die and God asks you, 'If you are sent back to the world what changes would...

... the enemy then the friend also cannot enter into you. And if you open the door for the friend, there is every risk that the enemy may also enter. One has to think about it deeply; it is one of the greatest problems in life. And only a very few courageous people tackle it rightly, others become cowards and hide and then their whole life is lost. Life is risky; death has no risk. Die, and then there...

..., that they have not experienced any fulfillment, nothing has happened, they have not blossomed. Hence continuous occupation, continuous activity is needed. Many people go on working and working and working and one day they die...because their work is not creative. When is the work creative? The work is creative when you love it, the work is creative when you feel in tune with it, the work is creative...

.... Life is vast. Says Jesus, 'There are many mansions in my God's house.' There are many dimensions in life. There is enough opportunity to choose. If you are not feeling fulfilled in something that you are doing, then don't do it, because this will be a sheer wastage and you will not have earned holidays. A man who has lived according to his being, who has done his own thing, earns death. Then he dies...

... more pots because he has brought a few friends also.' So he took almost twenty pots. But then he never came for two, three days. The king called him, 'What happened? You have not returned.' He said, 'I am sorry. Ten of them died.' Now the king was very mad. He said, 'Have you gone mad? How can pots die?' He said, 'Just think of that other time. If pots can give birth to babies, why can't they die...

... that tomorrow you will be wiser than today? Do you think that tomorrow you will be livelier than today? Do you think that tomorrow you will be younger than today, fresher than today? Tomorrow you will be older, your courage will be less; tomorrow you will be more experienced, your cunningness will be more; tomorrow death will come closer -- you will start wavering and being more afraid. Never...

... it is not life. Life is always in the wild. Life is there outside. The English word 'ecstasy' is very, very significant. It means: to stand out. Ecstasy means to get out -- out of all shells and all protections and all egos and all comforts, all death- like walls. To be ecstatic means to get out, to be free, to be moving, to be a process, to be vulnerable so that winds can come and pass through you...

... hell. Mrs. Cochrane was standing beside the coffin of her dead husband. Their son stood at her elbow. The mourners, one by one, passed in review. 'He's feeling no pain now,' said Mrs. Croy. 'What did he die of?' 'Poor fella,' said Mrs. Cochrane. 'He died of gonorrhoea!' Another woman gazed at the corpse. 'He's well out of it now,' she said. 'He's got a smile of serenity on his face. What did he die...

... from?' 'He died of gonorrhoea!' said the widow. Suddenly, the son pulled the mother aside. 'Mom,' he said, 'that's a terrible thing to say about Pop. He didn't die of gonorrhoea. He died of diarrhoea!' 'I know that!' said Mrs. Cochrane. 'But I'd rather have them thinkin' he died like a sport -- instead of the shit-he was!' To the very end they go on playing games continuously. The ego does not allow...

... have tuberculosis, but that can be cured. Or you may die two or three years earlier. So what? - you never really lived. Just the other day I was looking at a cartoon. A man is asking a woman, 'Do you believe in life after death?' And the woman says, 'This is it!' There is no need to believe in it, this is it. You are living such a dead life, what more can there be after death? It will be just the...

... INTERRUPTION, NEITHER DOES THE ENERGY OF HEAT SUFFER INTERRUPTION DAY OR NIGHT, AND THE SPIRIT AWAKENS TO LIFE. THE AWAKENING OF THE SPIRIT IS ACCOMPLISHED BECAUSE THE HEART HAS FIRST DIED. WHEN A MAN CAN LET HIS HEART DIE, THEN THE PRIMAL SPIRIT WAKES TO LIFE. TO KILL THE HEART DOES NOT MEAN TO LET IT DRY AND WITHER AWAY, BUT IT MEANS THAT IT HAS TO BECOME UNDIVIDED AND GATHERED INTO ONE. a story... The...

... first glimpse of meditative energy. In those moments grammar gives up, language expires. In the attempt to say it, language expires, and by its very death does point at last to what it cannot say. And that has to be, on a profounder level, the relationship with the Master. Then only can Tao jump as a flame from the Master to the disciple. You will have to learn the art of breathing. The sutras. Master...

... wants to wait, to let things happen. But that too can be a danger if it becomes lethargy, if it becomes laziness, if it becomes a kind of death. Remember, passivity can be either positive or negative, just as activity can be either positive or negative. The positive passivity means to be alert, awake, yet waiting. The negative passivity means to be asleep, snoring, and to call it waiting. Your lover...

... INNUMERABLE BREATHS AND HAVE AN EQUAL NUMBER OF FANTASIES. AND THUS THE CLARITY OF THE SPIRIT EBBS AWAY AS WOOD DRIES OUT AND ASHES DIE. Remember, your each breath is not just a breath, it is a thought too, an emotion too, a fantasy too. But this will be understood only if you watch your breathing for a few days. When you are making love, watch your breathing. You will be surprised: your breathing is...

... sannyasins here. They come and report to me, because they become very frightened: when the breathing stops they think they are going to die. Just the other day there was Saguna's question, that he started feeling as if he were going to die. He became frightened. Do not become frightened. If breathing stops, allow it, enjoy it. You are not going to die. In that very stopping of the breath you will know the...

... true form of reality, you will know life eternal, you will know something that knows no death. ALL AT ONCE IT BECOMES SO QUIET THAT IT STOPS. THEN THE TRUE BREATHING IS MANIFESTED AND THE FORM OF THE HEART COMES TO CONSCIOUSNESS. If you can allow... That's why I told Saguna, 'Saguna, you fool, you missed! Don't miss it again when it happens.' If the breathing stops, THEN THE TRUE BREATHING IS...

... SPIRIT IS ACCOMPLISHED BECAUSE THE HEART HAS FIRST DIED. That's why I said that if in meditation you suddenly feel your heart is dying, don't think it is a heart- attack. When the breathing stops, you will feel as if the heart is dying. It is not dying, it is giving birth to your real heart. WHEN A MAN CAN LET HIS HEART DIE, THEN THE PRIMAL SPIRIT WAKES TO LIFE. TO KILL THE HEART DOES NOT MEAN TO LET...

... IT DRY AND WITHER AWAY, BUT IT MEANS THAT IT HAS BECOME UNDIVIDED AND GATHERED INTO ONE. This is the secret of the Golden Flower: if the heart can die, the flower will bloom. Die as you are, so you can be reborn. Jesus says, 'Unless a man is born again, he will not enter into my kingdom of God.' Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... no ill person ever comes across him, that he never sees a sannyasin, the ochre-robed, that he never comes across the phenomenon of death. These four things are prohibited. Even if leaves are falling they should be removed before he sees the old dying leaf. Flowers should be removed from his garden before he becomes aware that flowers fade and die. And he should be surrounded by beautiful women, the...

... too?' And the god, through the charioteer, said - forced the charioteer to say, 'Yes, everybody is going to become old.' And then the dead man was seen. 'And what has happened to him?' Buddha asked. And the god, through the charioteer, said, 'Everybody has to come to this state. Illness, old age, then death.' 'Am I also going to die? And what about my beautiful woman, Yashodhara, and my child, Rahul...

..., who was born just a few days ago?' And the god said, 'All are going to die without any exception.' And then Buddha saw the ochre-robed sannyasin. And he said, 'Why is he wearing ochre, orange?' And the god said, 'This man has also seen illness, old age and death happening. Now he is trying to find the source of immortality. He has become aware that this life is contaminated with death. He has seen...

... not practising, he was not a practising meditator, he was philosophizing. In philosophy East and West cannot meet - it is impossible. In philosophy you cannot make positive and negative meet. But in actuality they do meet. In actuality the positive never exists without the negative. In actuality death is nothing but the culmination of life. In actuality silence and sound are two aspects of the same...

...-like: it chews. It is a pair of scissors: it cuts. Mind always makes things divided. Mind is a kind of prism. Pass a ray of white light through it and immediately it is divided into seven colours. Pass anything through the mind and it becomes dual. Life and death are not life-and-death, the reality is lifedeath. It should be one word, not two; not even a hyphen in between. Lifedeath is one phenomenon...

.... Lovehate is one phenomenon. Darknesslight is one phenomenon. Negativepositive is one phenomenon. But pass this one phenomenon through the mind and the one is divided immediately in two. Lifedeath becomes life and death - not only divided but death becomes antagonistic to life. They are enemies. Now you can go on trying to make these two meet, and they will never meet. Kipling is right - that 'East is...

.... Nations are just hangovers, just hangovers from the past - old habits that die hard. And because old habits die hard, man is suffering unnecessarily. Now science and technology have made it possible that no human being should have to remain in a kind of semi-starvation. But the old boundaries of the nations are preventing it. If people are poor in the world now it is not because methods are not...

... WEARING OUT AND RENEWAL ON THE WISE ONES OF OLD SOCRATES WAS DYING. A disciple asked, "Why are you not afraid of death?" Death was certain, within minutes he would die. The poison to kill him was being prepared. But Socrates said, "How can I be afraid of something which is unknown? I will have to see. When I die, only then can I see. Two possibilities are there. One is that I will die...

... completely, no trace of me will be left. So there will be nobody left to know it, nobody to suffer it. So there is no question about my being worried about it - if this first alternative is going to happen. And the second possibility is that I may continue, only the body will die but the soul will remain. Then too I don't see any point in being worried. If I am to continue, then death is irrelevant. And...

... will have to die. Your ego will be shattered completely - because only then can you enter into the temple, into the innermost shrine of the Master's being. A Master is a wise man but his understanding is so profound that you cannot understand it. You can only live it. A Master knows, but he knows in such depth - where opposites meet, where life and death become synonymous, where existence and...

... useful than an old man. An old man has lost his energy, his body is crippled, he is ill, he is going to die any day. He is not useful - he is just a burden. All respect for old people has disappeared. It is a corollary: when you don't respect the past you cannot respect your father, your grandfather, and you don't remember even the name of your great-grandfather. It is as if he never existed. You start...

..., now it is summer, now it is raining, now the rains have disappeared. Trees come and die, generations come and go and the drama of life goes on moving, but the sky remains as it is, eternally the same, eternally new, ever fresh and always old. Wisdom is like the sky. Of course knowledge can be taught in the universities, colleges, schools. Wisdom can never be taught. Nowhere can it be taught. Wisdom...

... afraid. For example, in a dark night, you have lost your way in a forest; you move cautiously. At every step there is danger, death. In that cautiousness a certain alertness comes to you - you may have felt it. Whenever there is danger a certain alertness comes to you, whenever there is danger you become a little more alert - not exactly alert, simply cautious. But to be cautious one has to be a little...

... the night you sleep. If you continuously work for twenty-four hours a day it will be death; if you continuously sleep for twenty-four hours a day, that will also be death. In the day work hard - and in working hard you are gaining the capacity to sleep. In the night sleep completely - in sleeping completely you are regaining, refreshing, rejuvenating your energies to work hard. Move into a rhythm...

... anger disappears. And how can you be afraid when you are aware? In awareness it is known that you will never die because you were never born, that birth and death are just on the surface, at the deepest core of your being you are deathless. Then fear disappears. Yachana, you became worried when I said that I am not concerned with your psychological growth - because what is psychological growth...

... is aware? From where does anger come? Anger is a wound in the ego. When your ego is hurt, you become angry. But the man of awareness knows there is no ego at all - now, how can wounds happen to something which is found no more? You escape from a rope in the night thinking it is a snake; you run, you are frightened to death. And then somebody laughs, takes hold of you - tells you, "It is not a...

..., you will only be playing games - psychological games. physiological games. Yoga got lost in physiological games. Your so-called yogis are only doing physiological exercises. They have their own benefits, I cannot deny it. They will make you healthier, but that health remains of the body. And the body will be gone when death comes, and with the body all your yoga postures too! And the whole effort...

... the age of eighty-two, eighty-three, eighty-four! The sleep seems to be so deep. When are they going to awaken? When will they think of the inner world? And death will take all that you have accumulated - your power, your money, your prestige. Nothing will be left. not even a trace. Your whole life will be nullified. Death will come and destroy all that you have made; death will come and prove that...

... all your palaces were nothing but palaces made of playing cards. Maturity is to know something in you which is deathless, to know something in you which will  transcend death - that is meditation. Mind knows the world: meditation knows God. Mind is a way to understand the object: meditation is a way to understand the subject. Mind is a concern with the contents, and meditation is a concern with...

... the container - the consciousness. Mind becomes obsessed with the clouds, and meditation searches for the sky. Clouds come and go: sky remains, abides. Search for the inner sky. And if you have found it, then you will never die. The body will die, the mind will die, but you will never die. And to know it is to know life. What you call life is not real life because it is going to die. Only a...

... cave, air-conditioned - but I go on living there, year in, year out. Buddha's father could not believe it. He touched his feet and he said, "Why have you come? What has happened?" And he said, "I don't have much time, because my death is approaching. That's why I had to run. Where is your child? I have come to see him." And Buddha was just ONE day old. The moment Buddha was born...