Nothing is Created – Osho
Were all souls created together, as Paul Brunton theorizes, or were they created at separate stages? Is this difference – the difference in their stages – due to their own choice or is it their...
View ArticleWhere Does Your Body End? – Osho
Does the soul leave the body when you die? Where does it go? This whole way of thinking – that something remains and something leaves – is fallacious. The gross body that we know is just a seed, the...
View ArticleDeath is a Great Revelation – Osho
Sat Prem came to me last night. Vipassana is on her deathbed. He was very worried, shaken, immensely shaken, and rightly so. The moment of death of someone you have loved deeply brings your own death...
View ArticleAn Eternal Flame of Light – Osho
Through my own recent encounter with death, I came across many stories of people from diverse cultures and of different religious backgrounds, who temporarily left their bodies and appeared to...
View ArticleRebel Against Personality – Osho
Does the being, or self, in the person die with the death of the person; or does it live beyond death in another body? The question is a little complicated. First you have to understand that your...
View ArticleA State of Silent Identification – Osho
Please explain. Is life an observer and death observed? No, both are the observed – life and death. Beyond both is the observer. You cannot call that observer ‘life’ because life contains death in it....
View ArticleDeath is the Master – Osho
The Upanishads are unique scriptures on this Earth about the mysteries of life, and the Kathopanishad is unique amongst all the Upanishads. Before we enter into this Upanishad, it will be good to...
View ArticleSomething Belonging to Eternity – Osho
A few months ago my friend and I were visiting his dying father. Lots of people were around, his body was about finished. To most people he was indifferent, but when everyone left he suddenly opened...
View ArticleBardo: Between These Two Dreams – Osho
I’ve always been fascinated by the state of bardo as described in ancient Tibetan scriptures. Could you say something about this? Bardo is a simple method but with great significance. Only people who...
View ArticleOn Knowing the Eternal Law – Osho
Death is destiny. It has to be so because it is the origin – you come from death and you go to death. Life is just a moment between two nothingnesses, just a flight of a bird between two states of...
View ArticleRaja Stop the Wheel – Osho
Death is not the end but only the culmination of one’s whole life, a climax. It is not that you are finished but you are transported to another body. That is what the easterners call “the wheel.” It...
View ArticleA Conscious Death – Osho
Is it possible to die consciously without being enlightened? Nirah, existence follows certain laws – and there are no exceptions. If one wants to die consciously, the only way is to be enlightened....
View ArticleBecoming a Witness – Osho
In order for one to stay awake at the time of death, or in order for one to successfully experience a conscious death in meditation, what preparations should the seeker make in relation to the body...
View ArticleMeditation: An Experience of Death in Life – Osho
There is nothing comparable to the death experience in life, except deep meditation. So those who know meditation, they know something of death—that’s the only way to know before dying. If I am saying...
View ArticleIf You Can See Death, Death Cannot See You – Osho
I have heard one beautiful story. Once there was a great sculptor, a painter, a great artist. His art was so perfect that when he would make a statue of a man, it was difficult to say who was the man...
View ArticleDeath, a Blessing in Disguise – Osho
My friend, Chintan, is just starting six months of heavy chemotherapy. You have already sent him such beautiful messages for his meditation while passing through this. Now, Osho, do you have some jokes...
View ArticleDeath, the Gap and Jumping Out of the Wheel – Osho
In discourse the other night you said that at one’s death there is but a two or three second gap between which the soul travels from one body to the next. Master, you have said that your last life was...
View ArticleDeath is There and yet I am Still Here – Osho
What I wish to say is that it is essential to see death, to understand it, to recognize it. But this is possible only when we die; one can only see it while dying. Then what is the way now? And if one...
View ArticleYour Aloneness Cannot be Destroyed – Osho
Death is always there. You may be unaware of it, but it is always confronting you with immediacy. You cannot be certain of the next moment. But we go on living – and nobody believes that he is going to...
View ArticleDeath is Making Love with God – Osho
Is there a difference between the Shunyavada of Nagarjuna and Avyakritopadesh, the unspoken and the undefinable teaching of Lord Buddha? There is no difference at all. If a difference appears to be...
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