Prana, Breath: The Bridge from Body to Soul

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The Buddha asked a monk: 'How do you measure the length of a man's life?'
The monk answered, 'By days.'
"Very simple question, and a very simple answer. But much is implied in the question. And..."
The Buddha asked a monk: 'How do you measure the length of a man's life?'
The monk answered, 'By days.'
"Very simple question, and a very simple answer. But much is implied in the question. And..."

Osho continues:
"'By days' means by time; by days, means by the fleeting; by days, means by the flux, the changing. He measures life by the momentary, not by the eternal, not by the timeless.

"Life exists in time, but life does not belong to time. It penetrates time, and one day it disappears from time. It is just like when a ray of sun penetrates water, and when it penetrates the water its angle changes. That's why if you put a straight stick into water it will look curved. It will not look straight because the angle of light changes. And when the ray of light enters into the medium of water, it does not belong there, it has come from beyond. It will go back, it will be reflected back – because everything returns to its source, has to return to its source. Only then is the circle complete, and there is contentment.

"When Buddha asked: 'How do you measure the length of a man's life?' and the monk replied, 'By days,' he showed his understanding. He does not know anything beyond time; he thinks life is just that which consists of time: being born, getting married, living, then old age, then death. Days go on flicking by, just like numbers on a gasoline pump.

"But this is not life; this is just the very periphery. Have you observed that if you look inside, time exists not? If you look outside there is time, but if you look inside there is no time. Have you not felt it sometimes, sitting silently with closed eyes, that inside you have not aged at all? Inside you remain the same as when you were a child, or as when you were young. Inside nothing has changed: the face is wrinkled by age, the hairs have gone gray, death is approaching – this is all from the outside. If you look in the mirror then of course there are signs that much time has passed, that very little is left, that sooner or later you will be gone. But look within: there has never been any time there. You are exactly the same as you ever were when you were running in a garden or on the sea-beach and collecting colored stones and seashells."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 98 mins
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Type Individual Talks