Osho on Death Dying

Osho – You cling to life because your life is unfulfilled

Osho on Clinging to Life

Osho – if you want to abide always and always, you have not lived the moment. One who has lived his life truly, authentically, one who has enjoyed it, is always ready to die, is always ready to leave. One who has not enjoyed and celebrated, one who has not lived the moment, the life, [...]

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Osho on energy phenomena in death – Sai Baba’s tomb is not dead. It is still alive

Osho on Sai Baba's tomb

Zen Sutra – “At the death of a parishioner, Master Dogo, accompanied by his disciple zengen, visited the bereaved family. Without taking time to express a word of sympathy, Zengen went up to the coffin, rapped on it, and asked Dogo: ‘is he really dead?’ Osho on above sutra – The first thing: when death [...]

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Osho – Death has to be understood, because death is the goal of life

Osho on Understanding Death

Question – Yesterday you said that the understanding of death is the basis of eastern psychology, and the understanding of sex is the basis of western psychology. will you please say something more about it? Osho – Death is the greatest thing that is going to happen in life; death is the climax. Death has [...]

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Osho on Empathy – It is possible to live through somebody’s heart

Osho on Empathy

Question – Beloved Master, I am puzzled as to why i have identified myself with this particular body and ego. and if my essence is in the universal consciousness, what keeps me from seeing through the eyes of other beings? Osho – An old businessman was dying…. It was evening time, the sun was setting [...]

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Osho – Neither terror of death nor the process of death make man unconscious

Osho on Death

Question – Beloved Osho, It is stated that man becomes unconscious at the time of death. Why is this so? Is it due to the terror of death or the process of death? Osho – Neither terror of death nor the process of death make man unconscious. He has been learning unconsciousness his whole life. [...]

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Osho – If you catch hold of him while he is still under the shock of the heart attack

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[A sannyasin has to leave because his father has a serious heart attack.] Osho – Mm… go, and when he is able to do something, show him the nadabrahma, the humming meditation. You can do it first sitting by his side and he can watch. Then you do it and he can participate with you. [...]

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Osho on helplessness – It is good to feel helpless, Prayer arises out of helplessness

Osho on helplessness

[A sannyasin said that Ma Vipassana who is seriously ill is his friend; he would like to do something but feels helpless.] Osho – It is good to feel helpless… prayer arises out of helplessness. And that helplessness will help your ego to drop. If you can do something in every situation then the ego [...]

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Osho – Tell him to invite death; tell him to think of death not as a foe but as a friend

Osho - Tell him to invite death

[A sannyasin wants to go home because his father is dying of a brain tumor but is still conscious.] Osho – Then it is good – you go. And help him to die meditatively. Meditation is a bridge between life and death. It is of immense value while one is alive and it is also [...]

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Osho – Death will reveal to you more than life has given. Your death can become your satori

Osho - Your death can become your satori

[A sannyasin with terminal cancer and a few weeks to live is returning to the west. Osho blesses him.] Osho – Don’t be worried… don t be worried. I am coming with you; don’t be worried at all. You have taken it really as it should be taken. I have been very happy. Just accept [...]

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Osho – If you can help her to die silently, meditatively, you have served her

Osho on dying meditatively

[A sannyasin has to return to the west because her mother is dying of a life-long illness.] Osho – So it is a good release for her, mm? She should not be prevented, she should be helped to leave the body. Because life in each and every case is not a blessing. It is a [...]

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Osho on reverence and respect for Parents, Relationship between parents and children

Osho on reverence and respect for Parents

[A sannyasin’s father has died after a long illness and she says: I have to go somehow more to be with my mother, to finish something there. There is something there that feels so... unfinished emotionally with her, and now seems the time.] Osho – It is always so with parents… very difficult to finish. [...]

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Osho – Whatsoever happens in time is going to die. In time, the eternal is not possible

Osho on time and death

Osho – Deva means divine, and akal means two things: one is timelessness and another is deathlessness. One word has both the meanings because in the eastern mind – particularly in the indian consciousness – time and death are synonymous. Whatsoever happens in time is going to die. In time, the eternal is not possible. [...]

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Osho on Death – What is Death, and What exists after Death?

Osho on what exists after death

Question – What is Death, and what exists after death? Osho – If you think about what is, you will pervert i t. If you think about it, then you will impose your own conceptions on it. ’What is’ can be revealed only when there is no conception, no thought, no theory in you; when [...]

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Osho – If we don’t achieve total consciousness in this life

osho on achieving consciousness in this life

Question – Beloved Osho, When you said that if we don’t achieve total consciousness in this life, we will have to start from the very beginning again, and go through the whole evolution of mankind one more time, I was very touched. Is it possible that we will totally lose these few glimpses of light, [...]

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Osho – when death becomes a bliss, it is a samadhi

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Watch a dead person — every person looks beautiful, silent. Not that he died in silence, not that he died beautifully — rarely does a person die beautifully. Ninety-nine percent of people struggle very badly — fight, great stress arises. Just think! — a small ant crawling on your body, a small thorn in your [...]

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Osho – It rarely happens that a person dies with God on his mind

Osho on Dying

Osho – BAULS say that there is only one way to come out of the stupor man lives in, and that is remembrance of God: NAM-SMARAN, remembrance of His name. That has always been part of the basic techniques on the path of love — to remember Him. And when a devotee, with deep reverence, [...]

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Beloved Osho, When i die, does my individuality remain?

Osho on Death

Question – Beloved Osho, When i die, does my individuality remain? Osho – Yes, your individuality remains, but your personality disappears — and you have to understand the difference between the two. The personality is something that is given by the society, by the religion, by education, by your profession. You have got a certain [...]

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Osho – If even death cannot wake you up, then what is going to wake you up

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Osho – You have lost the night; you could not wake up in the night. But it can be forgiven: it was night and you slept. But you cannot be forgiven when death is coming closer — now it is time to wake up! And if even death cannot wake you up, then what is [...]

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Osho – My Sannyasins celebrate death because they celebrate life

Question – Beloved Osho, I have heard that your Sannyasins Celebrate Death. Osho – Paul, you have heard rightly! My sannyasins celebrate everything. Celebration is the foundation of my sannyas — not renunciation but rejoicing; rejoicing in all the beauties, all the joys, all that life offers, because this whole life is a gift of [...]

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Osho on Gertrude Stein Death, Gertrude Stein died enlightened

Osho – I have told you many times, but I love the incident so much, because in the contemporary world, and particularly in the West, nothing like it has ever happened …. In the East it has been happening to the Sufis, to the Zen monks, to the masters of meditation, but in the West [...]

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Osho – Death is the crescendo, the highest peak that life can attain

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Osho – Death is the crescendo, the highest peak that life can attain. In the moment of death much is possible. If you have been preparing and preparing, meditating and waiting, then at the moment of death enlightenment is very easily possible – because death and enlightenment are similar. A master, one who is enlightened, [...]

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Osho – If you remember death, life cannot deceive you anymore

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Osho – Remember death, never forget it for a single moment! Because of this insistence, many people have thought Buddha is death-obsessed; he is not. You may be life-obsessed but he is not death-obsessed. He is simply bringing everything to a balance. He says, as much as you are involved in life you have to [...]

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