OSHO DEC 11TH 1931- JAN 19TH 1990
OSHO NEVER BORN NEVER DIED! SIMPLY VISITED THIS PLANNET!
Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting
all
your
without
any
conclusions
hindrance,
seeing
aside,
seeing
without
any
curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ. Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 12
The teaching of the Buddhas is: Find time and a place
to
remain
unoccupied.
That's
what
meditation is all about. Find at least one hour every day to sit silently doing nothing, utterly unoccupied, just watching whatsoever passes by inside. In the beginning you will be very sad, looking at things inside you; you will feel only darkness and nothing else, and ugly things and all kinds of black holes appearing. You will feel agony, no ecstasy at all. But if you persist, persevere,
the
day
comes
when
all
these
agonies disappear, and behind the agonies is the ecstasy. Osho, The Book of Wisdom, Chapter 17
OSHO JANUARY 19, 2009
HOW SHOULD A BUDDHA CELEBRATE DEATH?
HOW SHOULD A BUDDHA WELCOME DEATH?
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HOW A BUDDHA SHOULD LEAVE THE WORLD! A FLOWER THAT HAS BLOSSOMED ON DECEMBER 11TH 1931 HAS NOW WITHERED AWAY ON JANUARY 19TH 1990. THUS CAME THUS GONE. IN HIS BIRTH EXISTENCE CELEBRATED IT’S FRUITION. AND IN ITS DISSOLUTION TO EXISTENCE CELEBRATED. THE FLOWER THAT HAS BLOSSOMED ONE DAY DISSOLVED INTO TOTALITY LEAVING ITS BEAUTY, FRAGRANCE, SERENITY, LOVE AND AWARENESS INTO COSMOS. JUST AS A SEED BLOSSOMS ONE DAY INTO MYRIAD FLOWERS! THUS CELEBRATES LIFE. AND THEN ONE DAY DISAPPEARS IN THE UNKNOWN OBLIVION! IN THAT TOO IT GIVES BIRTH TO MYRIADS OF NEW SEEDS. THUS
CONTINUES THE PROCESS OF TRANSFORMATION AND THE BIRTH OF THE NEW MAN.
MANY YEARS AGO WHEN DR AMRITO ASKED OSHO HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO CELEBRATE YOUR DEATH? AN ELIGHTENED OSHO RESPONDED – ‘TAKE ME TO BUDDHA HALL FOR TEM MINUTES! AND FROM THERE TAKE ME STRAIGHT TO THE BURNING GHAT FOR CREMATION!’ INTROSPECT, THESE WORDS. CAN ANY ORDINARY PERSON SAY SUCH WORDS? NO! NOT AT ALL! ONLY A BUDDHA! THE ENLIGHTENED ONE CAN REALLY SAY SO. SUCH IS OSHO! WHAT REALLY OVERWHELMS ME IS THE TREMENDOUS AWARENESS IN THIS STATEMENT. ONE THING IS CERTAIN! NOONE TAKES THE LIVING ONE FOR CREMATION. IF IT BE SO THEN AT WHAT PRECISE MOMENT DID OSHO LEAVE THE FINITE EXISTENCE? OF COURSE HE DID NOT LEAVE BEFORE HE CAME TO THE BUDDHA HALL. ALSO HE DID
NOT LEAVE DURING THE TEM MINUTES WHEN HE WAS IN THE BUDDHA HALL. THEN WHEN DID HE LEAVE. FIRST OSHO GAVE THE LIVING MESSAGE OF A BUDDHA. AND COMING TO
THE END OF THE TEN MINITUE PERIOD HE ALLOWED HIS BEING TO DISSOLVE INTO THE ENTIRE COSMOS, IT IS AT THIS PRECISE MOMENT OSHO LEAVE THE WORLD. THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS FULFILLED. THE FLOWER HAS NOW DISSOLVED INTO THE VASTNESS OF THE EXISTENCE. ONLY AN ENLIGHTENED ONE CAN REALLY LIVE LIFE LIKE THIS. AND WHEN LIFE IS LIVED LIKE THIS THEN DEATH BECOMES A CELEBRATION. Just as he lived, celebrating, singing and dancing each finite moment! So should he die singing, dancing and celebrating as the river of life merges in the vastness of the ocean of existence…Total Acceptance! This is fana or dissolution. Total acceptance… total welcome…with a spirit of deep gratitude… a deep let go…. just total gratefulness for the life…The Whole!
His journey on this earth in this form is now complete...there is no returning …no more lives… Now he is no longer confined to this space …he is beyond the body…he is beyond the mind…he is beyond time… Now he will become available to many more. At this moment, all those around should be in deep silence with the master Everything is for a period…everything has its time… Seasons come…seasons go… The sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening…life keeps on moving… Once I was a child…in my mother’s arm...helpless…then my body grew older.., One day, it would be time for me to be in the arms of existence… We are here but for a time…nothing really is ours to keep…there should be no “this is mine…and that is mine” Whatever is given…welcome it…use it…enjoy it… but always with the remembrance that it is a gift…
We have been given the gift of life through this body... welcome it…use it…enjoy it…give reverence and thanks for this gift… Enjoy this gift of life…celebrate this gift of life…Live life in its totality…but always with the remembrance that this life is a gift… Therefore, we should not be possessive of this body…it was a gift…a gift given to us by the existence and one day this gift …the gift of this body will be no more…I It will be a time to let it go… There is a commonly used statement…” let go and let God”… Nothings last forever….everything passes…the joys...the sorrow.. A lover was once there…now he is gone…an accidental meeting…now it is time for a separation…a time to let go A child was born…now he has died…a time to let go…
Be a witness…be aware…the emotions and feelings in this life do not last forever…in the morning you were happy, now in the evening you have become sad…just be a witness…knowing that all this shall pass… When sadness comes your way…release the tears…no need for fear… Just with the remembrance that this too shall pass… BE AWARE. LIVE YOUR LIFE IN TOTAL CELEBRATION. A LIFE OF CELEBRATION WILL UNFOLD PAGES FROM THE SCRIPTURE OF THE BEING.
Aaem zaiNt> zaiNt> zaiNt> . ONLY THIS MUCH FOR NOW!