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# Related
- [[Philosophy/Poetry/The Beauty of Death]]
- [[Philosophy/Poetry/Final Curtain Call]]
- [[Philosophy/Poetry/Paradoxical asymmetry]]
- [[Philosophy/Rationality/Life is continuous, not discreet]]
- [[Philosophy/Poetry/The Way Of The World]]
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# Osho on [[Death π|death]] & Love
>Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to [[Death π|death]]. Then [[Death π|death]] is not the enemy. Then [[Death π|death]] becomes the fulfillment. If you have really lived and known what life is, then [[Death π|death]] is not the end of life. It is the fulfillment, it is the peak, it is the climax, it is the last thing that life can offer to you - and the best.
>**[[Life]] offers only two things: one is [[Philosophy/Humans/Love|love]], another is [[Death π|death]] - and both are dangerous because in both you will have to die. In love you will have to dissolve yourself. In [[Death π|death]] also you will have to lose yourself**. And you are so afraid of [[Death π|death]], of losing yourself, that deep down you have become afraid - afraid of love also. You go on talking about love, but no one is ready to love because love is [[Death π|death]]like. Love and [[Death π|death]], these are natural phenomena.
>If man simply lives naturally, love will happen and [[Death π|death]] will also happen and both will be peaks. Love is dying into the other person and [[Death π|death]] is dying into the universe. But love is not ultimate [[Death π|death]]; you will come out of it. You will come out of the other person again, there will be a resurrection.
>And [[Death π|death]] is also not ultimate because you will be reborn. You will come out of the universe again and you will enter a body and you will become embodied.
>Meditation is ultimate [[Death π|death]]: it goes beyond both love and beyond [[Death π|death]]. You cannot come out of it; that is why it is the most dangerous thing.
>Even in [[Death π|death]] there is the possibility you will be reborn, that you will come out of it. You will dissolve and you will again integrate, you will again evolve.
>So [[Death π|death]] will just be a passage of change, but meditation is final [[Death π|death]] - ultimate, absolute [[Death π|death]]. You cannot come out of it; hence, the fear. And it looks so hard because of the fear; otherwise it is as easy as anything can be. But love is difficult, so meditation will be difficult. [[Death π|death]] is difficult, so meditation will be difficult.
>To me, therefore, love is very significant: if you can love, you can meditate easily. But the whole society is against love, the whole culture is against love. They take every precaution so that love should not happen. They have created marriage so that love should not happen. Through marriage they have tried to close the very door. Before you get involved in love - a [[Death π|death]] process - they have protected you. They have created all types of teachings, all types of nonsense in your mind, to make love immoral.
>Basically, you are also afraid because in love you will have to lose your identity. You want to remain yourself so you go on protecting yourself.
>Even if you move in love, you move in a very protected way, very carefully. You remain an individual even in love. You remain an ego. So two egos meet, but the meeting is going to be only an appearance. They can come near, but the meeting never happens. They never dissolve into each other; they never lose themselves into each other.
> In life, three things are the most important: birth, love and death. Birth has already happened; now nothing can be done about it. Something can be done about love: you can become a conscious lover, and by becoming a conscious lover you will be preparing for a conscious death, because love and death are very similar. In love also you die in a certain way; your ego dies.
> The first experience of death is love. And once you have known the beauty of dying in love you will not be afraid of death at all. In fact, you will wait and you will welcome it when it comes. You will sing a song when it comes. You will dance. Death will not be your enemy but a friend, a great friend, because you knew a small death in love and it was so beautiful. Now it is a big death; it is bound to be a thousandfold more beautiful.
> Love prepares a man to die - but only conscious love, because only in conscious love do you die; in unconscious love you don't die. Unconscious lovers quarrel continuously, fight. They try to dominate each other.
> Conscious lovers surrender. In fact, surrender is not to each other; surrender is to the god of love. Both the lovers surrender to some unknown energy in which they dissolve their egos, and they experience small deaths. Each time, each orgasm brings a deeper death. As love deepens, death deepens, and they become prepared for the ultimate death. The day the final death comes is a day of rejoicing. They go dancing into death, singing, their hearts full of the thrill of the adventure.
> Then they can choose. Then they can move into a certain womb of their own choice. Now they have eyes - where to go, from what door to enter.
> Love is the beginning of consciousness. Death gives you the great experience - but still only ninety-nine percent, one percent is still left. That one percent is fulfilled by conscious birth. A conscious birth is one hundred percent death. The ego simply disappears, totally disappears. Love is one percent death, death is ninety-nine percent death, birth is one hundred percent death. And once you are born consciously, then there is no more love, no more death, no more birth.
> This is the goal of all the buddhas: to be free from the wheel of life and death.
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> The eighth question:
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> Osho,
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> I have been doing meditation for almost forty years, but I am as far away from the goal of god-realization as ever. What should I do?
> To make God a goal is to start in the wrong direction. God is not a goal; because if you think in terms of goals God becomes your desire, an object of desire. Then god-realization is nothing but the ultimate glorification of the ego. Hence you have been missing.
> And I don't know what kind of meditation you have been doing for forty years; it must be some wrong kind. It can't be right mindfulness - what
> Buddha talks about - it must be some wrong mindfulness. You must be doing some kind of concentration and thinking that this is meditation.
