Chapter 6
Remember, as a wave it is not apart from the ocean, it is one with the ocean.
His mother, Mary, came to see him.
mind is becoming empty
Lao Tzu said, "The first secret is: no one has ever defeated me in my life.
In fact, defeat begins with the very idea of victory.
Kabir said, "But what have you been doing for so long? Its so late!"
What fun can there be in defeating someone who doesnt even want to win?"
Only a happy mind wishes to thank somebody, and who else should one thank? -- because a man can find no reasons for the presence of inner happiness, so he thanks the unknown; it must be because of it.
But in death even you are annihilated as well.
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Man has always tried to forget about death, he has tried not to think about it.
For example, Jesus says, "If a man slaps your right cheek, offer him the left.
Mind has become completely empty
The father says, "I will disappear, but it doesnt matter -- I will leave my son behind.
At sunset, the sun reaches exactly where it was at sunrise -- but at sunrise it is in the east, whereas at sunset it is in the west.
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That is really when a relationship takes place, because then no one exists to disrupt it.
So man is afraid to live alone.
The first condition in looking at a roseflower is that the person looking at it should not think.
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the thoughts are relaxing
And even by the waning hours of afternoon there was no sign of Kamal.
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It is hard to say how much the scriptures affect your belief system and how much your liver does! One cant be sure whether gurus or the liver affect it more! What goes on inside the body has a greater effect.
And remember also, the man who attempts to escape his own death will continue to work towards the killing of others.
One day life will leave you, so feel it by dropping it now.
That means, first we make sure there is no cause for danger from the person, then we fall in love.
You have never wondered however, why there is so much fear of death.
" These are danger signals.
Some of us have turned into ice -- most of us have.
You will have to fall in love with it; you will have to look into its eyes.
If one says, "It is wrong that one man should live in a big house and the other in a shanty," then what is the problem in questioning, "Why should one man have a pretty woman and another man not? The division should be equal.
" Mary stopped, stood there in shock.
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and just as a flower blossoms when the sun rises, similarily the spring of bliss bursts forth looking at the void within.
Meditation means death.
Only a flame has remained burning
the body is relaxing.
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Why are you running away?" Who would look stupid, the one who sat on the man, or the man who kept laughing and whose laughter resounded throughout your life?
The mind will become even calmer.
If you talk to your servant gently, he also tries to behave like a boss.
Thats why thinking is never original.
It is not that after seventy years one dies all of a sudden; death never occurs instantaneously.
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Deep down, this is avoiding death.
If anyone ever came to challenge me he found me already defeated, so he couldnt have any fun defeating me.
It is not that death is something which will happen in the future, so why think about it now? This too is a misapprehension.
" How many times have you heard this before too? How many times have you read it before? Or you may say, "The flower is very fresh" -- but this too, how many times have you heard or read it before? What good are thoughts? How will you be able to enter the being of that roseflower by thinking about it? Thinking can only lead you into whatsoever is in your memory about a rose.
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" What this means is: dont even give him the trouble of turning your other cheek -- you do it for him.
Remember, an ocean can be without a wave but a wave cannot exist without the ocean.
Look intently in that void
He is quite rich, with a great deal of property.
Looking at a flower, if you begin thinking about it you will never know the flower, because the more you move into thinking about it, the further it will be removed from you.
And resting is no less enjoyable than being active.
Remember, therefore, that having a vision is a tapascharya, a deep personal commitment to knowing the truth.
We take all the measures, we take the full social precautions; only then do we accept the individual in marriage.
mind has become empty
The feeling of I is the feeling of a man afraid of death.
mind has become a void
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The body goes on relaxing
the body will be seen lying at a distance
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In the morning the body feels fresh and rejuvenated; it is filled with energy, ready to face another day of activity.
We are in big trouble.
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a great light of bliss will fill that very void.
The sun begins to set the moment it rises.
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the breathing is calming down, is calming down.
The thoughts are relaxing
slowly take a few deep breaths
But neither of them is eager, anxious to know death.
He came to himself, realized what had happened, and immediately apologized.
The colder it gets, the harder it becomes.
When they reached the forest they found Kamal standing in the middle of the thick grass, his eyes closed, swaying like a blade of grass in the breeze.
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Then you were tired, broken, worn out.
What will your state be then? You would want to run away from there! What else could you do? People watching would laugh and say, "Go on, sit on him; sit comfortably.
(A deep silence prevails
A man who thinks about love may perhaps write a thesis on it, but a lover lives it, sees it; its possible he may not be able to write a thesis.
Therefore one moves into meditation only when one is ready for dying, not otherwise.
Thats why our so-called love is very painful, because it is a wave trying to relate with another wave.
A sunset is as much a reality as the sunrise -- the difference is only of direction.
Remain just a watcher
We are all waves risen above the ocean of consciousness.
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Each degree will keep bringing the boiling point closer.
The rising and the setting go together -- the setting, in fact, lies hidden in the rising.
settle in the seeing.
Now, once again, you can sing new songs, something you couldnt do the previous evening.
Let go
But we are very scared of death, although it is nothing more than a deep sleep.
Take fifty men and infect them with chronic diseases, and keep the other fifty in good health.
In a way, sleeping is like dying every day.
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" He said, "I am very scared.
If the body wants to drop, let it drop
And one who has not loved has never known anything.
Now I will give some suggestions, and you feel them along with me.
But we are holding on to it.
goes on dying
He should remove thoughts from his memory; he should become empty, and live in that moment with the flower.
Even in the biggest defeats, you still survive; although defeated, you continue to exist.
And when it falls back into the ocean, it is equally happy in its state of rest.
Either he does not exist, or he has gone mad.
the body is relaxing
So pull the same life deep within
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The assumption is that, when we ourselves are capable of killing people, who can kill us?
A great spectrum of bliss will unfold within that very void
The same law works: keep on becoming cold.
as if a wave may disappear and become the ocean.
If we sit here for an hour, we will be dead one hour.
But this we will come to see only when we have seen death, when we have had the vision of death, when we have encountered death face-to-face -- never before.
Now we will sit for the morning meditation.
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The thoughts are going on calming down
The funny thing is that the other wants to become immortal by uniting with you, and you want to become immortal by uniting with the other.
Who knows how many scriptures have already been lost, and how many get lost everyday.
" What does this mean?
inside, look at this void.
I say to you: look at death -- neither should you avoid it nor be afraid of it, nor run away from it.
In fact, birth constitutes one end of death, and death constitutes the other end.
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Go on relaxing the body completely.
Relationship happens where thought is no more and where darshan, seeing, has begun.
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I was never defeated because I never wished for victory.
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We have slipped withinwards
show the courage to die
It will take time, but the journey will continue.
And remember, the warmer a person is the more simple he is.
One who harbors the thought of winning is always the loser.
The whole body becomes useless and the need arises to acquire a new body.
People thought about it a good deal before they called on him.
There is no other reason except that they have found a different kind of son.
It is just like when we heat water.
The ego is like ice, as hard as a rock.
But his very asking, "Why bring in the idea of death?" or "Lets just live and not even think of death" shows in itself that even he cannot escape thinking about death.
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They have created a wave which will remain long after they are gone.
I dont say think about the future, I say watch what is already happening now.
eveything has disappeared.
Beauty was always around -- the flowers bloomed and withered away.
But scriptures also become lost.
The man who is ready to meet death with absolute spontaneity, he alone is ready to live as well.
Jesus went on, "Do you call this woman my mother? I have no mother.
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Leave the body completely relaxed as if there is no life in it.
The others broken ego becomes the strength of our own.
" By killing others we try to be free of our own death, we want to confirm our independence.
Remember, the wave itself is dying, and the other waves nearby are dying too.
This is what we call love.
Two lovers long so much for their love to become immortal -- they sing songs day and night.
Then it doesnt want to become frozen ice.
relax your body
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And if the initial step cant bring him to Calcutta, the last step cannot either.
Be seated making a little space around yourself.
We have called it darshan while they have called it philosophy, and there is a fundamental difference between the two.
I became the grass itself.
He is also striving for the same degree of immortality.
No one ever forced me out of there or pushed me aside; nor did anyone say, Get lost! because that was the last place.
leave the breathing relaxed
You will hear him say, "Communism, etcetera -- its all nonsense!" What happened to this man? What was convenient to him shaped his thinking.
There was no place beyond that.
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As ice, it parts from the ocean, it separates, it becomes solid.
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the thoughts are going on calming down
The flowers bloom and the birds begin to sing.
It is not a question of convenience.
The man who doesnt have a beautiful woman can very well say that women should also be socialized.
Of course, it will shake you up while dying; but even before that, if this idea takes hold of your mind, it will shake you to your very roots.
He said his mother was too afraid to fall asleep.
By the time we are seventy or eighty, the body is worn out.
do not keep even the least grip.
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goes on falling.
Dont take too much trouble, dont bother too much; theres no need to exert yourself -- just come and sit on me.
If you want to know a flower, dont think about it -- look at the flower.
Similarly, someone who wishes to die will also grab on to some belief.
And there is an enormous difference between living and thinking.
Never think too much about convenience.
There is no way to defeat a defeated man.
I was never kicked out from any place, because I always sat near the entrance where people remove their shoes.
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Jesus has spoken some very strong words.
There can never be an original thinker -- only seers are original.
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I simply said no one could defeat me, while you are talking about becoming victorious.
Addressing the crowd, Jesus said, "As long as you have a mother, a father, a brother, you wont be able to come close to me.
The breathing is going on calming down
For eternity poems have been written about love becoming immortal.
It does not show understanding, it merely shows our concern for convenience.
become a void
How can you become immortal? Such a union will double death; it will certainly not turn it into an elixir.
How amazing it is that a fluid like water can become hard like ice and rock.
For ten minutes only go on looking within, do not do anything else, only go on looking.
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The body is relaxing
Thats why we say "a warm welcome.
But they are more afraid of life than of death.
the mind will become even calmer.
the body is relaxing
She fears she wont wake up once she goes to sleep, so she keeps trying to stay up the whole night.
Of course, he may say the water is heating up, but where is it turning into steam? We can delude ourselves up to the ninety-ninth degree that the water is still not turning into steam, but at the hundredth degree it is bound to become steam.
The two things are totally opposite, although they look similar in meaning.
There is one more interesting thing that needs to be understood.
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we have retreated back
So remember, if you see atheism increasing around the world, know well that misery must be on the increase too.
Our separation from God has happened because of one reason alone: we are not liquid, we have become solid.
This wave and the other wave are both dying, and yet they get into a relationship with each other in the hope that by joining with each other they perhaps may save themselves.
the breathing is calming sown
And everything has disappeared
Drop your grip completely
The son goes to the father when he needs money, the father goes to the son when he wants to give him a sermon; otherwise the two dont meet, the meeting never happens.
If you become frightened of the walls that make up the outer limits of a house, and escape, how will you ever enter the inner dwelling? Death is the periphery and life is the temple at the center of it.
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When it rises, it is in a state of activity.
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Because of this fear we have created a life, a society, a family which lives the least but fears death the most.
He is afraid, he is frightened; thats why he is unable to see death at all, nor is he able to love it.
In that acceptance the wave becomes the ocean.
One can never deny death.
slowly, slowly, everything will turn into a void.
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In its loneliness a wave is left totally by itself -- slipping away, falling away, vanishing, close to disappearing, feeling alienated on both sides -- the ocean on one, the rest of the waves on the other.
only a flame near the heart has remained burning.
A cold person becomes hard, unable to flow, closed from all sides.
Only a happy mind rings bells in the temple, kindles lamps and chants prayers.
The moment you know death, you come to realize that it is not.
One who is afraid of death and wants to save himself, readily accepts the belief in the immortality of the soul.
We cant even imagine a person like Jesus, so full of love, can utter such words as, "I have no mother.
You have come for that, havent you? So go ahead.
Thats why the I insists, "Break away from the all.
Jesus says, "When someone comes to defeat you, be defeated readily.
There is a joy in getting up in the morning, but isnt it equally joyful to sleep at night? If a few madmen were to start convincing people not to sleep at night, then getting up in the morning would also stop, because the man who wouldnt sleep wouldnt be able to wake up in the morning either.
the breathing is going on calming down
It says, "I have to survive.
Now why turn into ice? Then it will accept being a wave as long as it has to be, and it will accept being the ocean as long as it has to be.
If it contracts, becomes solid, then it can survive.
If this wave tries to relate with other waves, it will get into trouble.
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just die.
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What I am asking is: how will one who hasnt even known death yet know what life is? My point is: death is on the circumference; life is at the center.
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and go deeper within
This is the reason we are afraid of falling in love.
The whole day we are alive; the whole night we are dead.
The servant trembled before him, his son trembled before him, his wife was scared to face him.
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" When Jesus heard him, he said in a loud voice, "If you are giving way to Jesus mother, then dont do it, because Jesus doesnt have a mother.
And the organization of the ocean is a totally different thing.
Then all worry over its disappearance is gone, because then the wave knows it existed before its extinction and it will continue to exist even after it has vanished -- not as the I, but as the boundless ocean.
Actually, it gives us pleasure to destroy somebodys ego because doing so strengthens our own.
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Although it will come to its completion in the future, it is actually taking place every moment.
I was very puzzled to see that inwardly he was very soft, but very hard on the outside.
This is love.
After that there is no way he can ever be a winner, because then he exists no more.
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31 October 1969 am in Meditation Camp at Dwarka, Gujarat, India
Otherwise, these facts eventually lead us nowhere but to death.
Love means an attempt to reconstruct, once again, by putting different parts together, the relationship we have broken off with the whole.
They are not synonymous.
Just as there are laws for the freezing of water, there are laws for the freezing of human consciousness.
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But the moment a wave strives to save itself from the ocean, difficulties arise -- it cuts itself off from the ocean and its death begins.
The wave has declared, "I am the ocean," and now it is not attempting to connect itself with each and every other wave.
These are all conveniences.
We are dying this very moment.
If you think of winning, you will lose.
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No, thought is never original.
If a fear of falling asleep were to overtake somebody, it would make life difficult.
At the first degree the water warms up, but it hasnt turned into steam yet.
The second thing I would like to say to you is: dont think that death is somewhere in the future, death is present every moment.
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So when I say death has to be known, I mean we will have to love death as well.
relax your body
But the man who is afraid of death, who is eluding it -- how can he love death, how can he have its darshan, how can he ever see death? When death appears before him, he turns his back on it.
" If a seed wishes to save itself, it will rot -- what else? And if a seed annihilates itself in the earth, disappears, it will become a tree.
He has to lose everything that gives warmth to his being.
your own breathing will seem to be so far away.
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Thoughts can never be original.
The man who wants to create ego has to become cold as well; he has to lose his warmth.
Thats why they have named their science of thinking philosophy.
First the "I" says, "Break yourself away from the all, isolate yourself; you are different from the whole.
There is an incredible saying of Jesus.
What does this mean? This means that by accepting the facts of life totally concerning insecurity, failure, defeat, and finally death, we conquer them all.
Mind has become a void
Slowly take a deep breath
But the ego of this man we are talking about is already broken.
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Beliefs dont mean anything.
as if a fountain of bliss opens up and bliss abounds all over.
The disciples pleaded, "Even so, please explain to us.
Let go of the body completely, let it fall if it wants to, dont worry about it.
No one should be between you two.
let go completely.
When Lao Tzu was about to die, somebody asked him to reveal a few secrets of his life.
Once we become fluid-like, the separation will no longer exist; but we will only become fluid-like when we agree to see and to live death, when we accept that death exists.
The whole of life would come to a halt.
The West has a science of thinking -- it consists of investigation, logic, analysis.
Soon it was evening, and here I was, completely oblivious that I am Kamal who has come here to cut grass.
The truth of the matter is that there is hardly any home where the father and the son meet each other lovingly.
Please do something and save her from this fear; otherwise I am in great trouble.
There are a few more questions which we will be able to discuss during the night session.
Leave the thoughts also
You can never know death by thinking about it.
Thats why theres nothing like Indian philosophy and nothing like Western darshan.
Those who want to lie down, do so beforehand.
let go
They said, "You never told us this before! We also wish to be victorious.
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If people were to go on becoming happier in Russia, then in the next fifty years theism would revive there and the bells would begin to ring in Russian temples.
let go
This is the only cause of separation: we are not flowing, we have become like blocks; we are not like water, we are like frozen ice.
And how long will it survive in that state? Whatsoever is frozen will undoubtedly melt.
One day Jesus was s藏书网tanding in the market surrounded by a crowd.
Somebody goes and digs ditches
The breath will appear to be far away.
leave your eyes relaxed and close the eyelids
There is a vast difference between convenience and truth.
A complex is created inside the person.
In fact, it is even more enjoyable.
There is no way that one who knows that such is the case can ever deny it.
But still, in that sort of survival the wave is no more and the ice remains -- ice which is a wave, closed, broken away from the ocean.
the breathing is calming down.
Have you ever seen your wife, your son, with whom you have lived for so many years? Have you ever seen them? The things your wife did yesterday flash through your mind -- and a thought comes in between you and her.
It is just as if I have a coin in my hand and I say, "Why bother about the reverse side of the coin? Why not just forget it?" If I give up the reverse side, then I will lose the front side of the coin too, because both make two sides of the same coin.
Relax your body
I said, "As such, you are a very simple man.
You may or may not have noticed that people who are engaged in a creative activity -- a painter, a musician, a poet, a writer -- are not too concerned with having sons, simply because they have found a substitute.
die completely from outside.
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Hitler, Genghis Khan, and other such people, killed millions in order to assure themselves that "No one can kill me, since I kill millions myself.
A man who was an atheist in his youth becomes a theist in his old age.
If I ask you to think about this roseflower, what will you think? You will simply reiterate what you already know about a rose.
look within
These facts will have to be seen, will have to be lived.
Lamps would be lit and prayers would be chanted.
" Thats why a father feels unhappy if he doesnt have a son -- it means he couldnt arrange his immortality.
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feel it, the body is relaxing
Remember, a relationship does not mean there is a third factor binding the two.
Please show us the technique.
Life and death are both aspects of the same phenomenon.
A writer doesnt care much about having a son, about having an offspring.
move further back from them.
Only one who is afraid of death has ego, because ego means a constricted personality, a solid knot.
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The mind will become even calmer
Then open the eyes slowly
Mind is becoming empty
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move back from them too
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The other day it was convenient for him to think that the property be divided; now it is inconvenient to think that property be divided.
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There are laws under which water turns into ice, and there are also laws which cause the formation of the ego.
The son is also afraid; he sneaks by his father.
Thats why we turn love into security.
Get out of here! You will never understand what I am saying.
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There is a state of activity and there is a state of rest.
Meditation means to move into what is, where we are.
"Once again you are making a mistake.
Thinking about death, what will you do?
An old lady was brought to me by her son.
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Hence it creates an organization, it creates a chain.
a flame of knowing
We will have to see death.
I could die.
The final step will be as instrumental in bringing him to Calcutta as the initial step.
What we call samsara, the world, is the state of activity, and what we call moksha, liberation, is the state of rest.
Only a flame of knowing will go on burning in the void, that "I am knowing"
If I throw away one, both will be thrown away; if I save one, both will be saved.
the mind will go on quietening.
No one can enter into him, nor can he enter into anyone.
the thoughts are relaxing
You may say, "The roseflower is very beautiful," but how many times have you heard this before? How many times have you read this before? Or you may say, "The roseflower is just as beautiful as the face of my beloved.
And one who fears death can never live -- both things cannot exist together.
The water will turn into steam when it heats to a hundred degrees; however, it started moving closer to becoming steam at the first degree, and then at the second, and the third and so on.
" Why? -- because it is possible the man may feel embarrassed taking the shirt away from you.
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We dive within ourselves at night and come out refreshed in the morning.
Every moment is filled with fear of death.
Thinking is nothing but reiterating a thought.
A person who is miserable, troubled, sick and in pain feels he should meet a total death, that nothing should be left behind -- because if any part of him does survive, then it would obviously mean he would survive
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let go
So one kind of love is the one where we attempt to rebuild our lost relationship with the whole by adding parts.
By running away from the periphery, we also run away from life.
The mind has become completely a void.
disappear
So the one who knows will warn you at the very first degree that the water will turn into steam -- although you never see water turning into steam anywhere.
This journey begins with birth.
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Thinking will lead you nowhere.
you have moved further back
Please show us the trick.
Only after we have scrutinized the person and become totally reassured do we ever fall in love.
the thoughts are relaxing.
The ocean, however, can exist without a wave.
Kabir went over, shook him, and asked, "What are you doing here?" Kamal opened his eyes.
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Kabir grew even more worried.
Their paintings will survive, their poetry will survive, their sculptures will survive; they dont care about having a son.
Light always shone -- the sun rose and set.
Death is the biggest defeat of all; thats why we want to kill our enemy -- there is no other reason.
You will always be insulted because you are filled with the desire for recognition.
Let her come.
In the dictionary, in the world of language, it has one meaning -- that a person who has not faced defeat is victorious.
do not keep any grip
Who is my mother?" So Mary stood there in shock.
Once you get the idea that "I am," then how can you be with the rest of the all? If you choose to be with the all, then the I is lost.
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One man is a communist.
Tapascharya means one is not concerned with conveniences; instead, one has to know whatever is, whichever way it is.
It still exists.
So one who wants to create an ego has to become cold, and in order to become cold he has to lose all those things which give warmth.
The West puts great emphasis on thinking.
Jesus has said, "The one who will save himself will perish; and the one who will efface himself -- no one can ever destroy him.
The more he succeeds in killing others, the more alive he will feel.
let go completely
Thats why we invented marriages -- first we marry, first we take all the necessary measures, then we fall in love -- because love is dangerous.
The more we succeed in breaking the others ego, the stronger ours becomes.
go on looking inside
the thoughts are going on calming down
Of course we can dye our white hair, but that does not prove death a lie -- it invariably comes.
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drown in the depths and go on looking
In fact, only those who have attained to love can speak such strong words; people weak in love cannot utter them.
People began to make way for her.
What else would you do? What else can you do with thinking? Could even one single unheard-of and original viewpoint about a rose ever appear in your thoughts? How can it?
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There is a difference between thinking and seeing -- and the difference is significant.
But since we continue to remain egos, a great difficulty is created.
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But the man who has a beautiful woman will certainly protest.
I said no one could ever defeat me, and you are saying you too want to be victorious.
And one who wants to save himself from death can never be nonviolent.
the body is relaxing
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Eluding death is eluding life as well.
If the wave wants to survive as a wave, it cannot; it is bound to die.
Thoughts are always stale.
The breeze was not moving the grass, the breeze was moving me -- the cutter and that which was to be cut had both disappeared.
Unless, of course, it becomes ice.
we have slipped completely inside
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No scripture lasts forever, although of course it lasts a little longer.
We can put it this way: only the ego dies, not the soul.
Thats why no one wants to live without love and be miserable.
She isnt recovering from her illness because she stays up all night, afraid she may not wake up alive.
Hence, prayer is absolute love.
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Go on feeling
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In fact, no one could pick a fight with me.
we are knowing
We are going on slipping inside, there where life is.
You will have to see it.
In Russia people read Marx, while in India you read Mahavira -- this makes no difference.
Now it will fall into the struggle to protect itself from death.
You will think according to your convenience; your convenience determines your thinking.
All mans efforts and plans towards falsifying death seem to be succeeding, but they never are successful -- because death is there.
I am not asking you to think, even.
It does not mean that we are attempting to integrate the fragments; it means we have stopped breaking ourselves away from the whole.
However, if a wave were to assert itself as a wave, it would be filled with ego, and then it would want to break itself away from the ocean.
One can never run away from a fact.
the body has remained just like a shell
When you wake up in the morning you feel happy, because only a part of your body changes in sleep -- but death, on the other hand, brings about a complete change.
Belonging to it does not mean the wave joins itself with the ocean; rather, it means the wave knows that "I am not at all different from the ocean.
The thoughgts are also dropping
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Deep down, a violent man is an escapist from death.
Death is happening every moment; we are dying every day.
One who comes to know death will, by and by, uncover it and begin to understand life as well.
It is dangerous to form a relationship, because if you form a relationship with somebody then sooner or later he starts asking for money.
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Thats why man likes to live in a crowd; he feels afraid if he is left alone.
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You are only knowing
Let go
I was a guest at a friends house for a few days.
A waterfall may emerge and only bliss flows all around, which spreads all over you, in your every fiber, in your each particle.
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This is like dying in parts, dying a bit every day.
The ego is like frozen ice and love is like water, fluid, flowing.
And remember
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, if you still have a mother, then you wont be able to come near me.The day nothing exists to bind, when only two remain, when nothing remains in between, that day what actually remains is only one; then there are not two.
When you go to bed at night, tired and weary, your body is in one state, and when you wake up in the morning it is in a different state.
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That which binds also breaks.
How can this be possible? With the one I keep, the other side will automatically be saved.
We keep on adding to it.
The very first step he takes will be as much to reach Calcutta as his last step.
of seeing.
And there is another kind of love where we have stopped our attempts to break away from the whole.
" What I am saying is that our theism and our atheism, our beliefs -- all of them are the products of conveniences that suit our conditions.
One who sleeps right will wake up right.
Close your eyes
Actually, thinking is a tactful means of falsifying facts.
do not keep any hold over it
As soon as you come to know it a transformation happens in your life -- because death is not.
How can a wave survive as a wave? It will die.
Everything will be lost.
the body is relaxing
am seeing
Love means warmth; a cold love carries no meaning.
the body is going on relaxing
So I am not saying you should think about death.
leave your eyes relaxed and close the eyelids.
Death is the gateway to knowing life.
How many fathers have done this?
When I say "triumph over death," I mean that as soon as a person accepts death he laughs, because he comes to know there is no death.
the breathing has relaxed.
the consciousness has remained lit like a flame.
The man who penetrates death, who is not afraid of death, who does not run away from it, who begins to live it -- his I disappears, his ego disappears.
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Why should some men have a monopoly over beautiful women? Women should belong to all.
For example, a man sets out from Dwarka for Calcutta.
How can you remain connected?" So the "I" snaps itself away; but then it gets into trouble -- because, as soon as the "I" separates from the all, it becomes miserable; its end approaches.
A relationship does not mean we are joined with somebody, a relationship means that now nothing exists between you and the other person, there is no one in between -- not even to join you.
It was morning when he left, but when the sun was overhead and Kamal had not yet returned, Kabir became worried.
Love is Dangerous
Then, for whatever time it has, it dances in the sky, rejoices under the rays of the sun, is happy.
We are seeing
goes on dying.
Death lies hidden in birth.
This needs to be understood a little.
let go
I say to you, therefore, that in the next fifty years there is a great possibility that Russia will become theistic and India will become even more atheistic.
Thats it! The matter is over! Then everything is accepted.
Leave it relaxed
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He will of course be gone, but he wants to create another wave which will continue further on, which will at least identify the wave it came from.
One might feel afraid to go to bed, arguing, "It is such a joy to wake up in the morning, it is better not to fall asleep or else it will spoil the whole charm of waking up.
And the same is the case when it heats up two degrees.
So a solid wall of coldness had to be erected all around -- that would scare the wife, that would scare the son.
As a wave it was one with the ocean; however, if it becomes a chunk of ice it will survive, of course, but then it will be cut off from the ocean.
It will be a mess; everything will become ugly and distorted.
And this carries a totally different meaning.
the breathing is calming down
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Water has to cool in order to become ice, it has to lose its heat, it has to turn cold.
Death will not happen in the future -- death is already happening every moment.
your own body will be seen so far away
One who turned away from the very first step, how will he ever reach the deep waters of the well?
There are people on this earth who propound, "Today property, tomorrow women.
When I stayed with him and came to know him closely, I asked him what all this was about.
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Everyone is seeking love: somebody wants to receive your love, somebody wants to give you love.
I am not asking you to think about death, because such thinking will mislead you.
The reason all of us, who are going to die, are so eager to love is that love is the obvious means to connect.
This is the reason one who is to die wants to love.
Love is fluid, a man might find his way into anyone.
slowly take a few deep breaths.
We shrink with fear of death.
Thats why the sun is the symbol of life, the sun is the symbol of warmth.
One who is miserable, living in pain, will readily believe that death takes everything away -- including the soul -- that death leaves nothing behind.
If you see an increasing number of people believing in God, you should know that more and more people are becoming happy.
This sort of acceptance feels comfortable, thats all.
Darshan, seeing, can be original.
the body is relaxing.
He said, "She has been ill lately, and she feels she may die in her sleep, so she is afraid of falling asleep.
Then he lives this truth.
Love is never cold, it contains warmth.
The body has relaxed
And just looking at it continuously, I dont know when, but I also became a blade of grass.
The experience of ignorance is death; the experience of awareness is immortality.
The works of Mahavira and Marx cannot make the least difference.
These are all endeavors of the ego; these are attempts by one who has broken himself away from it, to unite once again with the whole.
Now just give him a car, a big bungalow and a beautiful girl to marry, and in fifteen days you will see a totally different man.
To be a wave means to face extinction -- prolonging makes no difference.
There was so much joy in being the grass, joy that, being Kamal, I never had before.
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Darshan means to see; darshan does not mean thinking.
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Remember, never believe that what seems pleasing to you is necessarily true, because what feels pleasing does not depend on what is true, it depends on what you think of as convenient.
But have we ever wondered what the meaning of love is?
LET US LIVE IN THE PRESENT.
Question 1
For example, you go out to defeat a man, and before you knock him down he lays himself down on the ground; and before you sit on him he invites you and lets you sit on him.
We have to know what death is, see it as it is.
In fact, there is virtually no difference between what we call living, and dying.
Why should I disappear?" then the seed is bound to rot.
A thought is always about convenience.
One who will lose himself shall find, and one who will save himself shall be lost.
everthing elso has become a void
Death is such an enormous fact it cannot be ignored; although throughout our lives we try not to think of death -- not because death is not worth thinking about, but because the very thought of it is terrifying.
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For example, a wave rises in an ocean.
if it falls it falls.
Then he accepts everything.
A vision has nothing to do with convenience.
If a desire to freeze arises in us, the consciousness, otherwise so simple and fluid, freezes and becomes an ego.
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Your conveniences and inconveniences make no difference.
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Different people do different jobs -- people sweat the whole day.
Then you will know the flower from its interiority.
How can two people who are going to die desire immortality together? A union of two such people only makes death twice as real and nothing else.
Lao Tzu answered, "You made a mistake.
Go on loosening it, feel that the body is relaxing
And one who ignores death also ignores life.
for ten minutes just remain looking.
The only difference is that we can fail to know it.
the body is relaxing
Where I stood, no one ever came to throw me out.
It is not that happiness is caused by believing in God; a miserable mind inevitably becomes atheistic.
But if a man has already effaced himself, what fun can there be in destroying such a person? Our ego wouldnt get any kick out of it.
A sick and miserable man may find it gratifying to think that everything ends in death.
One day life will leave you totally; even if you want to keep it, it wont stay.
What else can it be? And both are melting, sinking, fading away; thats why they are frightened, worried.
In fact, the truth is that beliefs change with headaches.
mind has become empty.
Leave the breathing also relaxed.
We try our best to falsify death; we have invented a thousand ways to falsify it.
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A vision is something else.
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Sometimes we say that such-and-such a person is very cold -- there is no warmth in him; he becomes hard like a rock.
" And Lao Tzu said further, "And no one has ever been able to insult me.
We have managed our entire system of life in such a way that death should not become visible.
mind is becoming empty
The body is relaxing
What she said at the dinner table comes back to you -- and the thought stands between you.
But we are scared of death and so our whole life has become totally crippled.
only a flame of knowing has remained inside
The thought is gratifying to this man not because it is right.
Only then, the unknown seated within the rose will begin to enter your being.
Hence, it is meaningless to try to save yourself from death, or to postpone it by saying that death is in the future.
It is dangerous to fall in love with a stranger; he may sneak off at night with all your valuables! So first we make absolutely certain who the man is, what he does, where his parents are from, how his character is, what his qualities are.
drown
There are people who think this way.
let go completely
" It has created nations; it has created Hindu-Mohammedan sects -- waves creating their own organizations.
A seer penetrates within because there remains no wall between him and the object before him -- the wall crumbles, disappears.
One wants a wife, a husband, a son, a mother, a brother, a friend, a society, an organization, a nation.
The fear of death is responsible for creating the ugliness and the distortion.
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" Hence I say to you: enter into death willingly so that you may reach life.
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the thoughts have calmed down.
It is like a restless wave which crashes against the wind and wrestles with it, and then it falls back into the ocean and disappears.
" But we know this is ridiculous: sleeping is the other side of waking up.
Life seems more painful to them than death; hence they want to f99lib.netinish it.
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And for the man who does not find love it becomes a problem.
Only go on looking wakefully
What seems to be the matter? The question is that if a wave is attempting to unite with another wave, it wont be able to come close to the ocean.
This does not mean, however, that he is carefree; it simply means he has found a long-lasting wave; he stops worrying about smaller waves.
he, the miserable, sick individual.
go deeper within.
Now, slowly take a few deep breaths.
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As soon as the wave comes to believe it is separate from the ocean, it begins to die, its death comes nearer.
If he makes you lose one round, lose two instead.
Mercy and sympathy bring warmth; cruelty and ruthlessness bring cold.
the body has completely relaxed.
after few minutes, Osho starts giving suggestions again.
Those who take philosophy and darshan to be synonymous know nothing.
Question 2
Only the bliss prevails all over, all around.
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That is called prayer.
Hearing this, the disciples became very excited.
Thinking means to repeat, in the mind, what we already know.
This phenomenon of death will have to be seen, this phenomenon of death will have to be lived, this phenomenon of death, that "I am dying, I am dying," will have to be accepted.
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Now the division of property would mean dividing his car, dividing his bungalow.
So convenience shapes our thinking; our thoughts are formed out of convenience.
Nothing youve ever experienced should be in between.
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What I am saying is: here is death, right now within you, and you have to see it.
The East has experienced that there are certain facts which can never be known by thinking about them.
He will go on freezing, because that fear that he may die, that he may disappear, will make him contract -- and his ego will remain, growing harder, stronger.
The very idea that "I will die" sends chills up our spines.
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He makes a lot of noise -- there should be a revolution, the poor should be poor no longer, property must be divided, and so on.
Do not prevent it
Retreat back even from the breathing, call your energy back from there too.
And as soon as a man looks into deaths eyes, begins to watch it, penetrate into it, he feels astounded.
Lao Tzu went on to say, "But you are asking something else.
So if you look upon yourself as a wave you will want to avoid death -- you will remain afraid, scared.
If you remain courteous and loving to your wife, the expenditures shoot up.
He knows it, he sees it, and he accepts it.
You may perhaps say he took six months to arrive at Calcutta, but the fact is that it is only because he had started to arrive six months ago that he could arrive six months later.
How will you escape from it? Where will you escape? Even running away from it, you are ultimately going to run into it.
become a void completely.
Actually, they have found a son that will last even longer than yours, because even when your son has disappeared, the writers book will still remain.
We are a frightened people; we want to make everything secure first.
As long as it was one with the ocean, there was no death at all -- because the ocean never dies.
For example, love gives warmth, hatred brings coldness.
Even when they came to his door they hesitated to ring the bell, wondering whether they should go in or not.
No one could insult me because I never desired honor.
He shuts his eyes; he never lets death appear before him, face-to-face.
One who does not live rightly will not die rightly.
Thats why I say death will have to be lived, it will have to be known, it will have to be seen.
slowly, slowly you would have slipped into depths
The reason for this violence is not that it is caused because people dont drink unstrained water or they eat after sunset, no, it is nothing of that sort.
Killing others, he believes no one can kill him, because now he himself has the power to kill.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THEM? ARE THESE PEOPLE NOT AFRAID OF DEATH?
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Then one comes to know that birth is there and so is death.
And if someone asks a lover to say something about love, he may close his eyes, tears may start rolling down his cheeks, and he might say, "Please dont ask.
One who wants to escape from death will inevitably grab hold of some belief.
I was never asked to move from a place because I always stood at the end, where no one could push me further back.
Birth is on one side, death is on the other.
Let go completely
let go totally
So the friend asks: "Why should we think about death? Why not forget it? Why not just live?" I would like to say to him that, forgetting death, no one has ever lived, nor can anyone ever live.
The body has become lifeless
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mind is becoming empty.
Yet when a few waves gather together they feel more reassured -- some sort of organization is created; a crowd is created.
If you dont remain stiff with your son, his pocket money goes on increasing.
Whatever it was before in the ocean, it is now still the same, but it is at rest.
the breathing is calming down.
Actually, life is sustained by warmth; death is cold, below zero.
Philosophy means conceptual thinking.
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What we call the birthday is actually the first day of death.
It isnt possible to save one side of the coin and throw the other side on the street.
In fact, only the ego can die; only the ego has a death -- because it is false.
Thats why I say: look at death.
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During this one hour we will be dying too.
Remember this: no fact can ever be known by thinking.
How were you never defeated?"
But the truth is, it is already disappearing.
Drop it completely, drop all your control
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Both comprise bliss.
There, the two streams disappear and merge into each other.
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Disappear completely from outside
In that case, it will not even remain a seed, let alone grow into a tree.
as if it is dead, as if the body has become completely lifeless.
The breathing is calming down
Then the wave becomes the ocean; its fear of extinction disappears.
the body is relaxing
keep watching the breath.
We can run an experiment.
Slowly take a few deep breaths
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When the stomach is upset one feels like becoming an atheist, and when the stomach is okay one feels like believing in God! How can a man possibly believe that there is a God when he has a headache? If God exists and so does the headache, how can you connect the two?
This means that when he took his first step towards Calcutta, he began to reach Calcutta.
No matter what a man may have set out to know, he has only known it through love.
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Thats why scientists, painters, sculptors, writers and poets are not overly concerned with having sons.
and get up very slowly and gently.
It is only a question of time, but melting is bound to happen.
You cannot conceive of a wave without the ocean -- the ocean will be present in the wave.
only seeing.
One who does not die in a right manner will not live rightly.
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That which is ascending on one side is declining on the other.
But I was puzzled about one thing: he would never speak kindly to anyone; otherwise he was a good man.
The urge to kill an enemy comes from our desire to inflict on him the ultimate defeat.
I asked him, "How did this happen?"
So he will say, "Money will be lost, wealth will be lost, but my work, my scripture will survive" -- and that is precisely what he wants.
Be seated with a little distance from each other.
The wave will melt and it will make a big hue and cry, because as soon as it melts it will disappear.
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Thinking is never original -- although we ordinarily say that such-and-such a persons thoughts are highly original.
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Sooner or later such questions will surely come up.
Every day it approaches nearer -- whether you think about it or not, whether you escape from it or not.
And thats the reason there is no relationship between husband and wife, between father and son, between mother and son.
With acceptance comes transformation.
He obviously does not want to save any part of himself, because if he does he will be saving nothing but his misery and pain.
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A FRIEND HAS ASKED: WHY SHOULD WE THINK OF DEATH AT ALL? WE HAVE LIFE, LET US LIVE IT.
The body is lying down, almost dead, away
In fact, in the world of waves, no matter to what extent a wave may prolong itself, ultimately it is bound to be lost.
Thinking and seeing are two altogether different processes.
Where will you run from it? Where will you go?
So the fact of death has to be seen, not thought about.
Look within wakefully.
Finding no hindrance in between, it will enter, and then you wont feel you want to know the rose, you will feel you are one with the rose.
The East cared for something else.
The man who is afraid of death will run away from it.
" And Jesus says, "If a man snatches your coat, also give him your shirt immediately.
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In the final analysis, death is our total defeat.
let go completely from outside
The death of the seed becomes life for the tree.
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This friend has asked, "Why think of death?" I dont say to think.
open the eyes slowly
When it rises in the morning, death departs; everything becomes warm and hot.
So for the sake of the ego, one has to give up love and cling to hatred.
A FRIEND HAS ASKED: SOME PEOPLE COMMIT SUICIDE.
And sit at a little distance from each other so that no one falls over you if someone lies down, or falls over.
A seer penetrates inside an object, while a thinker hovers around it on the outside -- and therefore a thinker has no achievement of his own; only a seer enjoys achievement.
They are the indications that death has started approaching, that it is sure to come.
But if the wave, by falling back into the ocean, were to make itself cease to exist as separate, if it were to come to know that it is in fact the ocean, then there wouldnt be any question of the waves disappearing.
let go completely
And then, once again, the "I" says, "Relate with the all" -- such is the tortuous way of the "I".
WHY DO WE BRING IN THE THOUGHT OF DEATH?
The day one realizes this, not only does the sting of death depart, the thought of not dying disappears as well.
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He will say, "How can this be possible? What nonsense are you talking about? This is all wrong!"
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You want me to tell you the technique of winning.
The fundamental reason for violence is that man kills others to forget about his own death.
What I call the I is dying all the time.
There is no harmony anywhere between the two.
When the head has no pain we follow one set of beliefs; with a headache these beliefs are replaced by another set.
I was very ha九-九-藏-书-网ppy to be at the end; it saved me from all sorts of trouble.
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Actually, both are aspects of the same thing.
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" The wave says, "Ill disappear, but Ill leave a little wave -- it will survive after me, the chain will continue, my name shall remain.
For all the rest, as if death has happened
One who lives properly will die properly.
Kamal went as he was told.
The father is afraid, and he has surrounded himself with a solid wall.
So whenever somebody went to challenge this man, he would immediately lie down on the ground and say, "Come on, sit on me.
One who dies properly will take the right steps in his future life.
And what is future? It is the sum total of all of our presents.
The ocean has always been; it is only the wave which has taken form and then disintegrated.
When they are an integral part of the ocean, all waves exist in peace and rest.
Only the outer sheath is formed and unformed.
Death is the ultimate defeat; after that there is no possibility for the enemy to win, ever.
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let go of the wave, be one with the ocean.
" When it disappears as a wave, it still exists -- in a state of rest.
No one ever wanted to be in that spot.
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And when the ego disappears only life remains.
A vision is always of truth; a thought is always of convenience.
But even when its at ninety-nine degrees the water does not turn into steam; that will only happen when it reaches one hundred.
And the man who hasnt been able to love death yet, how will he ever love life? -- because death is a very superficial event and life is a far deeper phenomenon.
look within
You will move ahead in your thoughts while the flower will remain lying there.
the body has relaxed
Death is the final defeat, and we all want to run away from it.
the breathing is going on calming down
What can I say about love?" One who has thought about love will explain it for hours, but he may not even know one iota of love.
Putting an end to their lives does not mean they find any joy in death, but since life appears worse than death to them, they prefer death.
I would like to say one more thing that may not have occurred to you before.
And just by looking at it you will find that what seemed like death from this end, as you enter into it a little, the same thing turns out to be life.
It will have to die.
If the seed were to protect itself by saying, "I am scared.
ask the life to retreat within, and leave the body relaxed.
So when I say "Know death," recognize the facts -- I am not asking you to think.
"Please tell us its secret also, because we do not like to be insulted either," a disciple said.
Then his life has a liquidity that enables him to flow into others and allows others to flow into him.
Now, for ten minutes just remain awake within, remain conscious within.
Hence he is not interested in having a family; he has created a different kind of family.
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With each step Calcutta drew nearer and nearer.
And the fact is that both of you are going to die.
Also, if someone feels like lying down during the experiment he should do so.
" And so I say that a religious man does not belong to any organization -- he neither holds to a family, nor does he own a friend, a father or a brother.
There is great danger in being fluid, there is insecurity in it.
we have remained only a watcher.
It may take seventy years for us to die completely, nevertheless this one hour will be a part of it.
Let go
The change is not total, it is a partial transformation.
It is not a sudden event; it is a growth that begins with birth.
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Waves, in fact, unite with each other and create an organization mainly to save themselves from the ocean.
A poor wave will melt a little sooner, while a rich wave will take a little longer -- what else? The sunrays will take a little longer to melt a big wave, while a smaller wave will melt sooner.
Seeing leads you into love; seeing is the source of love.
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Let the first fifty live in misery and let the other fifty live happy lives.
The day property is distributed, the question of sharing women is bound to arise.
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He has asked the right thing.
Birth and death are two aspects of the same life.
If we dont even know the circumference, how will we ever know the center? And if we run away from the circumference, we will never reach closer to the center.
He says, "The whole mess is because of that unknown one, because of God.
" A welcome is always warm; a cold welcome has no meaning.
I dont want to disappear.
come back from meditation.
Mind is becoming empty
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What we call living is just another name for dying gradually.
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You believe in its existence only as long as you have not known it.
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And with that, this body goes through a complete change.
But all these efforts to unite are invitations to death -- because the one with whom you are forming a union is as much surrounded by death, as much surrounded by the ego
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And Jesus says, "If someone asks you to carry his load for a mile, at the end of the mile ask him if he would like you to carry it further.
Let go totally.
the thoughts are going on relaxing.
Thats why we change our beliefs many times.
" And there is nothing wrong in it, because all along you have been treating women as your property anyway.
All our thoughts either foster our convenience or remove our inconvenience.
the consciousness has slipped withinwards
And that which shone with the rising and setting of the sun was forever present, before sunrise and after sunset.
Thus it is happy in life, it is happy in death -- because it knows that "that which is" is never born nor does it ever die.
Jesus also says, "Blessed are those who are ready to stand in the last row.
Has it ever occurred to you that the hundredth degree is also a degree, just as the first degree is also a degree? The journey from the ninety-ninth degree to the hundredth degree is the same as from the first to the second degree; there is no difference.
The more a person is afraid, the more he worries about his security, the more solid he becomes.
An unhappy mind wants to express its anger.
Once Kabir asked his son Kamal to go to the forest and bring some hay for their cattle.
Look at it.
On its own a wave feels more frightened that it may disappear, that it may really disappear.
Anyone in fear has to shrink inside, and whatever shrinks turns into a knot.
slowly, slowly
Only he who declares, "I accept death, for death is one of the facts of life -- it is a reality," can be a nonviolent person.
There is no meeting point between a father and a son.
So its all right for the former wave to disappear -- it leaves another one behind.
How can we falsify it? No matter how much we go on falsifying it, it makes no difference -- it is approaching, non-stop.
The wave has created its own organization.
Kamal answered, "I am sorry, but when I came here, instead of cutting the grass I began to look at it.
One who has fear of death shrinks within.
What has the flower to do with what you are thinking? A flower is a fact.
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In it, the wave has contracted; it has become frozen.
Even underneath the dyed color the hair is still white.
And the fact of the matter is that all these organizations are going to disappear -- the ocean below is the only organization.
the body is relaxing.
Inside
Somebody from the crowd shouted, "Make way, make room for Jesus mother.
You recall how she quarreled when you were about to leave for the office in the morning -- and again the thought is present between you.
On the outside, death has happened.
Soon it was evening and the sun was about to set, so finally, accompanied by a few of his devotees, Kabir set out in search of Kamal.
That which is, is; only forms keep changing.
" This is being very harsh.
Hence, the reason for all the violence in the world is totally different from what people ordinarily take it to be.
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you have moved further back.
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We have named the same science darshan.
We are all filled with desire to freeze, and so we employ many kinds of means to see how we can become frozen, solidified.
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Lao Tzu said, "No one could defeat me because I always remained defeated.
The breathing is going on calming down
the breathing is calming down
Then death takes over.
You heard something different.
Let the roseflower be on one side and you be on the other, and let there be no one between you -- nothing youve ever heard, nothing youve ever read, nothing youve ever known.
To his great amazement, he realizes, "What a great mystery lies hidden in death! What I knew as death and kept running away from, actually conceals within itself the source of supreme life.
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Then whether it disappears or remains, it still exists -- because it knows that "I am not a wave, I am the ocean.
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Look intently into this void
we have slipped conpletely inside
You have always thought, you have never seen.
The joy is in defeating one who desires to be victorious.
" And how interesting it is, that breaking away from the whole makes you miserable.
let that spring burst forth
You will find that atheism will increase in the former group and theism will increase in the latter group.
No matter where you escape, no matter which direction you take, eventually you are going to end up there.
As long as there is something in between to bind the two, the disrupter is also present.
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One who wakes up right will sleep right.
People would begin to thank God.
Once we have seen and recognized that death exists, why should there be any fear? When death is surely there, when the wave knows for certain she is bound to disappear; if the wave has found out that birth itself contains death, if the wave has come to know that its disintegration began the very moment it was created, the matter is finished.
I was the lord of my own place; I have always been the lord of my own place.
They are afraid of death too.
Those who are lying down or have fallen down, take a deep breath slowly
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And when the person finds no cause for being unhappy, then who should he be angry at? He obviously becomes filled with bitterness towards the unknown.
Do you know that the body undergoes change overnight and comes out different every morning? The change is so minimal you dont notice it.
Its good you came, because I didnt know what was happening.
am seeing.
Warmth is the symbol of life, cold is the symbol of death.
Whatsoever is, that has to be known.
The more we secure ourselves, the harder and colder the wall of ice is all around us, and it shrinks our entire being.
We get up every morning and go to work.