Man Is Not Predictable

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From:The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 07

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Osho,
When the moment comes the leaf lets go its tender hold and greets its dying with inner grace. Is it then that the way is open for life to embrace its own e'er the leaf touches down?
Man Is Not Predictable
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Osho,
When the moment comes the leaf lets go its tender hold and greets its dying with inner grace. Is it then that the way is open for life to embrace its own e'er the leaf touches down?

Osho continues:
"Yes to joy and yes to sadness too, because joy cannot exist without sadness. Joy is possible only if sadness creates the background. They are joined together so intrinsically that they are inseparable. And man's whole effort is to separate them. Man goes on trying to do the impossible – he wants to live without death. Now that is utter stupidity! Life implies death; death is at the very core of life. The only way to deny death is to deny life too.

"So the people who have tried to deny death have died; before death has come they are no longer there. They have not lived at all. In denying death they had to deny life too, because the more you live the more you become available to death. When life is at the peak, death is the closest. Avoid death and you will have to avoid the peaks of life. You will have to live in a lukewarm way, neither dead nor alive, which is far worse than death itself.

"And so is the case with all the polar opposites: destroy one and the other is automatically destroyed. You cannot save the other; they are like two aspects of the same coin.

"Seeing it, a great understanding arises. One relaxes. One says yes, to life, to death, to darkness, to light, to sadness, to joy, to all that is without any choice. That choiceless understanding is enlightenment, is buddhahood.

"You say, 'When that moment comes the leaf lets go its tender hold and greets its dying with inner grace.'

"That's how you have to learn to die. The way of the leaf is the way of the sannyasin too. And your hold has to be tender; otherwise it will be difficult to let go. Your hold has to be almost not a hold at all. Your hold cannot be a clinging. Only those people cling who don't understand this polar game of existence, and their clinging destroys all. They have to die, but their death becomes graceless. They have to die, as everybody else, but their death becomes agony.

"The word agony comes from agon agon means struggle. Agony means struggle. They die fighting."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 85 mins
File Size 19.72 MB
Type Individual Talks
Edition/ Version 2