A Conscious Death
Talk #9 from Nirvana: The Last Nightmare
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"Life is an opportunity. You can use it, you can misuse it, or you can simply waste it. It depends totally on you. Except you, nobody is going to be responsible. Responsibility is of the..."
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"Life is an opportunity. You can use it, you can misuse it, or you can simply waste it. It depends totally on you. Except you, nobody is going to be responsible. Responsibility is of the..."
Osho continues:
"It is simply there, a given fact. When existence becomes life… The moment you start existing in a conscious way, immediately existence becomes life.
"Existence lived consciously is life.
"Life is a great challenge, an adventure into the unknown, an adventure into oneself, an adventure into that which is. If you live an unconscious life, if you simply exist, you will always remain afraid of death. Death will always be just somewhere near the corner, hanging around you. Only life goes beyond death.
"Existence comes, disappears. It is given to you, taken away. It is a wave in the ocean – arises, falls back, disappears.
"But life is eternal. Once you have it, you have it forever. Life knows no death. Life is not afraid of death. Once you know what life is, death disappears. If you are still afraid of death, know well you have not known life yet.
"Death exists only in ignorance – in the ignorance of what life is. One goes on living. One goes on moving from one moment to another, from one action to another, completely unaware what one is doing, why one is doing, why one is drifting from this point to that point.
"If you become a little meditative, many times in a day you will catch hold of yourself completely drifting, unconscious.
"The whole effort of religion is to make you aware of your existence.
"Existence plus awareness is life eternal – what Jesus calls life in abundance, what Jesus calls 'the kingdom of God.'
"That 'kingdom of God' is within you. You have already the seed within you. You just have to allow it to sprout. You have to allow it to come in the sunlit world of the sky, to become free, to move in freedom, to move higher and higher, to touch the very infinity. It is possible to soar high – but the basic thing is awareness.
"Shortly before Carl Jung died, he said in an interview, 'We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger and we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man.'
"One fallacy continues and that fallacy is that because you are, you think you know who you are."
"Existence lived consciously is life.
"Life is a great challenge, an adventure into the unknown, an adventure into oneself, an adventure into that which is. If you live an unconscious life, if you simply exist, you will always remain afraid of death. Death will always be just somewhere near the corner, hanging around you. Only life goes beyond death.
"Existence comes, disappears. It is given to you, taken away. It is a wave in the ocean – arises, falls back, disappears.
"But life is eternal. Once you have it, you have it forever. Life knows no death. Life is not afraid of death. Once you know what life is, death disappears. If you are still afraid of death, know well you have not known life yet.
"Death exists only in ignorance – in the ignorance of what life is. One goes on living. One goes on moving from one moment to another, from one action to another, completely unaware what one is doing, why one is doing, why one is drifting from this point to that point.
"If you become a little meditative, many times in a day you will catch hold of yourself completely drifting, unconscious.
"The whole effort of religion is to make you aware of your existence.
"Existence plus awareness is life eternal – what Jesus calls life in abundance, what Jesus calls 'the kingdom of God.'
"That 'kingdom of God' is within you. You have already the seed within you. You just have to allow it to sprout. You have to allow it to come in the sunlit world of the sky, to become free, to move in freedom, to move higher and higher, to touch the very infinity. It is possible to soar high – but the basic thing is awareness.
"Shortly before Carl Jung died, he said in an interview, 'We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger and we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man.'
"One fallacy continues and that fallacy is that because you are, you think you know who you are."
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| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 96 mins |
| File Size | 26.75 MB |
| Type | Charla Individuo |
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