Life, Death, and Love

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From:Ancient Music in the Pines

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Osho,
Can you talk about facing the death of each moment and letting go?

"Death is already happening. Whether you face it or not, whether you look at it or not, it is..."
Life, Death, and Love
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Osho,
Can you talk about facing the death of each moment and letting go?

"Death is already happening. Whether you face it or not, whether you look at it or not, it is..."

Osho continues:
"Life and death are two aspects of existence, simultaneously happening together.

"Ordinarily, you have been taught to think of death as being against life. Death is not against life. Life is not possible without death, death is the very ground on which life exists. Death and life are like two wings: the bird cannot fly with one wing, and the being cannot be without death. So the first thing is a clear understanding of what we mean by death.

"Death is an absolutely necessary process for life to be. It is not the enemy, it is the friend, and it is not there somewhere in the future, it is here, now. It is not going to happen, it has always been happening. Since you have been here it has been with you. With each exhalation it happens – a little death, a small death – but because of fear we have put it in the future.

"The mind always tries to avoid things which it cannot comprehend, and death is one of the most incomprehensible mysteries. There are only three mysteries: life, death and love. And these three are all beyond mind.

"So mind takes life for granted, then there is no need to inquire.That is a way of avoiding: you never think, you never meditate on life; you have simply accepted it, taken it for granted.

"It is a tremendous mystery. You are alive, but don't think that you have known life.

"For death, mind plays another trick: it postpones it – because to accept it here and now would be a constant worry. So the mind puts it somewhere in the future, then there is no hurry: 'When it comes, we will see.' And for love, mind has created substitutes which are not love: sometimes you call your possessiveness your love, sometimes you call your attachment your love, sometimes you call your domination your love. These are ego-games, love has nothing to do with them. In fact, because of these games, love is not possible.

"Between life and death, between the two banks of life and death, flows the river of love. And that is possible only for a person who does not take life for granted, who moves deep into the quality of being alive and becomes existential, authentic."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 95 mins
File Size 26.52 MB
Type Individual Talks