Osho about death. Osho - what happens at the moment of death? Osho life and death

Death is one of the most mysterious and yet most deceptive things in existence. Everyone dies, and yet I tell you: no one ever dies. Death is an appearance, an appearance from the outside. That's why someone else dies; you never die.

And a person who dies dies only in the eyes of those who are outside, not in his own eyes - if he is aware; it simply moves from life to life, eventually dissolving into all existence.

Every death reminds you that you are only here for a few days, tomorrow may not come for you. The end is getting closer and closer every day, and after death there is nothing but an unknown world, unfamiliar - no friends, no family, no society. You don't know what will happen to you because you have always been in the crowd. Death will make you lonely.

Therefore only those who know the art of being alone while they live remain conscious when they die; otherwise, the shock is so great that ninety-nine percent of people, perhaps more, lose consciousness before they die. And to die unconsciously means to miss such a great opportunity, because death reveals life to you in its complete nakedness. This is one of the most significant questions that can be asked.

Death is not an accident. It is not that suddenly one day, completely unexpectedly, death comes and you are finished. No, death grows with you, side by side, like your shadow. The day you were born, you also began to die.

Death and life are two aspects of one coin, two wheels of one cart. You become so enchanted by life that you never see that death is also growing with you. This is growth: just as life will take seventy years to come to its climax, so death will take seventy years to come to its climax. Only at the climax do they meet. They have always moved together, but in the crescendo of your life they are not even together - they are one.

Those who want to understand life must understand death. Those who don't understand death will never be able to understand life, but we were brought up with such a huge fear of death.

If you are afraid of death, you cannot live fully. Your life will always be in the shadow of death; it can come at any moment and you are helpless

There's nothing you can do about it. She comes without giving you any notice, she comes as a guest.

I use the word "guest" because this word is used" by the ancient scriptures of the East; but in Sanskrit, which is the original language, the mother language of all the languages ​​of advanced countries, the equivalent of the word "guest" is atithi. Its meaning is "one who comes without telling you in advance.” Tithi means date, atithi means “one who comes suddenly without even telling you the date.”

Life is a school. You should go back if you haven't learned your lesson. If you have learned it, you don't have to go back to any cell, to any prison; you can expand your consciousness to all that exists. This is the true search for religion: how to free yourself from all your shackles and allow yourself to be in all this limitless and eternal existence.

Only then will you truly sing when you drink from the river of silence.

You can sing without even knowing silence, but your song will be superficial, empty, meaningless. If you drink from the river of silence, I call it meditation.

Then a song comes from you - not yours. Then you are just a means, and the song is sung by the whole Universe. Then the song has depth, bottomlessness, and reaches a height that you can climb higher and higher - forever.

Only when you have reached the top of the mountain... Remember this expression: Only when you have reached the top of the mountain have you begun to climb.

People think that when you are in a valley you have to climb a mountain peak; but the real ascent begins at the mountain top. When you become one with the Universe, then your real life begins - your real dance, your real song, your real ecstasy.

And only then will you perform your true dance, when the earth demands your flesh.

When your body has returned to the earth, then only you are beyond the grip of gravity and your real dance begins.

Everything that is beautiful and great is inside you, but in captivity. You are this splendor in captivity. Come out of your prisons, and your splendor will show you that you were a sleeping God; you are now an awakened God.

When the Sufi mystic, Bayezid, was dying, the people who gathered around him - his disciples - were suddenly surprised, because when his last moment came, he became radiant, brightly shining. He had a wonderful aura. Bayezid was a handsome man, and his disciples always felt an aura around him, but they had never seen anything like it. So shining!
They asked:
- Bayazid, tell us what happened to you. What's going on with you? Before you go, give us your last message.
He opened his eyes and said:
- God greets me. I go into his arms. Goodbye!
He closed his eyes and his breathing stopped. But the moment his breathing stopped, there was an explosion of light. The room filled with light, then the light disappeared.
If a person has recognized the transcendental in himself, then death is nothing more than another face of the divine. Then there is a dance in death.

Life and death

Moscow 2002

BBK 84.5 ID 096

096 Life and death.

Moscow, Nirvana, 2002, 320 p. ISBN 5-94726-004-2

Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, is the enlightened master of our time. "Osho" means "like the ocean", "blessed".

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“First of all, you need to understand that conquering death does not imply conquering death. Victory over death simply means that you come to know that there is no death. The knowledge that there is no death is what its conquest means. There is no need to conquer death. As soon as a person learns that there is no death, our battle with death and its endless defeats immediately stops.”

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"Dear friends! Dear companions along the way!

January 16, 1990 Osho was sitting with us, as usual, in ten minutes of daily meditation, when the drum sounded, signaling the end of the meditation, opening my eyes, I saw that Osho’s head, as never before, had bowed to His left shoulder. The thought instantly flashed: “I hope He didn’t leave the body!?” After a few seconds, He opened His eyes and slowly rose from His chair. Then, more slowly than usual, He did a namaste. Suddenly I had the feeling that He was saying goodbye to us for the last time ... when He looked into my eyes, the words flashed independently of me: “Good by Osho, thank You.” After He left, I was in some inexplicable state, I didn’t know if I would see him again.. .
That same evening, Osho dictated the words and asked them to be written on His samadhi:
Never born
Never died
just visited this planet earth
between December 11, 1931 and January 19, 1990

The next evening, January 17th, when we gathered as usual in Buddha Hall , we were told that Osho was not able to sit with us in meditation and would only come out to greet us, and asked that we all greet Him with our eyes open (usually, many sit or dance with their eyes closed).
Again, very slowly, He walked across the podium, greeting His sannyasins, but this time, as if nothing had happened.
January 18th He didn't come out at all. Amrito, Osho's personal physician, said that Osho would meditate with us sitting in his room.
Gradually, gradually He prepared us for His departure...


January 19th, at 7 pm,
Amrito, announced to everyone gathered in Buddha Hall that Osho had left his body at 5 pm, and that according to His wishes, the body would be taken to Buddha Hall for ten minutes and then taken to the cremation ground. “In His death, He was just as you would imagine - magnificent!” said Amrito; “And when I began to cry, He looked at me and said - No, no, this is not the way - Let's see our loved one off Master in a way that corresponds to the life of a man who lived his life as richly as anyone has ever lived."
At 8 o'clock, Osho's body was taken to the Buddha Hall... Then, to the music and singing, thousands of His snow-white sannyasins carried the body of their Master to the cremation site.
Saying goodbye to us and this planet for the last time, His body burst into flames.
There was dead silence... thousands of hearts beat as one heart...
The music started playing and gradually everyone began to sing along... tears and laughter merged into one inexplicable whole... we will no longer see Him, His eyes, His smile, His graceful body that greeted us day after day...
But, sitting next to the flaming body, completely devastated and at the same time filled with some inexplicable joy that He had finally gotten rid of his poisoned and sick body, I suddenly looked into the sky full of stars - sparks rushing to the stars and disappearing in the open space - where do they all disappear? Where has our Master gone? And suddenly a feeling, a very strong feeling - He has not gone anywhere, He is here now, He has poured into all of us, exactly as He promised, He is everywhere...


“Remember, when I leave, you will lose nothing. You might even get something you never thought possible. When I leave, where can I go? I'll be here in the wind, in the ocean. And if you love me, if you have trust, you will find a thousand and one ways to feel me. In moments of silence, you will suddenly feel my presence. Since I am free from the body, my consciousness will be in the entire universe. Then you don't have to look for me. Wherever you are, with your thirst, your love, you will find me in your heart, in its beating." Osho

The next day, as usual, we gathered in Buddha Hall and sat in meditation with Him. His presence in the hall was unusually strong... and it's not just words...
Since then, every day, we continue our ten-minute meditation with the Master, after which a video of His previous lectures is shown.
Hundreds of people come to the ashram every day from all over the world, many who have never seen Osho in the body continue to take sannyas, our meditativeness has deepened much, our consciousness has increased.
I personally experience His presence as a tremendous energy of love that spreads not only in Buddha Hall, but throughout the planet and the entire universe.
He said many times that “Love is my message to humanity” and only now, I began to understand what He means...
And the feeling that Osho’s death is the beginning of something new and inexplicably beautiful! Not only for His sannyasins, not only for all those who are deeply connected with Him, but for all humanity.
The commune that He left is a priceless gift for all those who are connected by their love for the Master, who work on themselves and on the growth of their consciousness, where the path is full of love, songs and dances.



Osho's last words: “I leave you my dream.”

Now, everything is in our hands, and if we have correctly understood His message, then we cannot remain ungrateful...
He dedicated his life to us, as He himself said:
“My work with myself has long ended, I linger here on this shore only for you...”
“Before you leave this planet, make it a more beautiful place to live...”
“Don't be afraid, don't worry about what will happen to my words when I leave. I will not leave until I sow the seeds of these words in you. The day I leave, your responsibility to live will become greater - to live me, to become me. My leaving my body will be a response in you that, having left one body, I can be in all your bodies. And I am absolutely sure, incredibly happy that I have chosen the right people who will be my books, my temples and synagogues. It all depends on you, because who will spread me throughout the world?
Osho

Our Master's Samadhi is now in a beautiful room recently built for him. This room used to be Chuang Tzu's auditorium, where Osho gave evening darshans and lectures for many years. When Amrito asked His kula to place His ashes, Osho replied: “Just place it under my bed.”
Now, in His samadhi, 3 daily meditations take place, each lasting an hour. Nothing has changed in the Ashram, only another magnificent place for meditation has been added.

“I am an incurable dreamer. Not a single miracle has ever happened until you make it a reality. I want this ashram to be the first synthesis between religiosity and a scientific approach to life. This will fulfill my dream that a person is internally and externally undivided. When I say that this will happen, it is not “I” who say it, I am simply a means in the hands of existence. I know for sure that when it comes from my absolute emptiness, it is a message from Being itself. This will happen. Nobody can stop this. And this is the only hope for a new person and a new humanity.”

All Western European countries refused to accept Osho - now there are no barriers to him - He is now in all countries of the world, in our bodies, in our hearts, no country in the world can now refuse Him! And all that He offers the world through us is meditation, love, laughter and joy.
With eternal love and gratitude to your beloved Master,

Ma Jivan Mada - Jivan Mada, Osho Commune International, 17 Koregaon Park, Poona 411-001, India

A place of death:

Chandra Mohan Rajneesh ( चन्द्र मोहन रजनीश , sometimes erroneously "Rajanesh", - ) - famous religious figure, founder of the mystical, since the early seventies, better known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ( भगवान श्री रजनीश ) and later as Osho(ओशो) or Ravshan(गोहनीश्र). In many countries, Osho's followers are classified as.

Biography

Was born Chandra Mohan Jain ( चन्द्र मोहन जैन ) years in the small village of Kushwade (state, central) in the family of a textile merchant. For the first seven years, he was raised in the family of his mother’s parents.

“It was like an explosion. That night I became empty and then filled. I stopped being and became being itself. That night I died and was born again. But the one who was born had nothing in common with the one who died. There was no connection. I didn’t change in appearance, but there was nothing in common between the old me and the new me. The one who perishes perishes to the end, nothing remains of him.”

In the 60s, under the name Acharya Rajneesh ( आचार्य acharya- teacher, Rajneesh- a nickname given to him by his family), traveled around India, criticizing and. In 1962, he began leading 3-10 day meditation camps. In the year, he left teaching.

Stay in the USA 1981-1985

Osho's followers bought a ranch for $5.75 million Big Muddy area of ​​64 thousand acres in Central Oregon, on the territory of which the settlement of Rajneeshpuram (now Antelope) was founded. In August, Osho moved to Rajneeshpuram, where he lived as a guest of the commune.

During the four years that Osho lived there, Rajneeshpuram's popularity grew. So, about 3,000 people came to the festival held there in 1983, and about 7,000 people from Europe, Asia, South America and Australia in 1987. The city now has a school, post office, fire and police departments, and a transport system of 85 buses.

At the same time, contradictions with local authorities regarding construction permits intensified, as well as in connection with calls for violence from residents of the commune. . They intensified in connection with statements by Osho's secretary and press secretary Ma Anand Shell. Osho himself continued to remain silent and was practically isolated from the life of the commune. Shella took over the administration of the commune.

Internal contradictions also intensified within the commune. Many of Osho's followers, who did not agree with the regime established by Shella, left her. Faced with difficulties, the board of the commune, led by Schella, also used criminal methods. So, in 1984, the food of several restaurants in a neighboring town The Dallas were added to test whether the results of upcoming elections could be influenced by reducing the number of people eligible to vote. On Shell's orders, Osho's personal physician and two Oregon government officials were also poisoned. The doctor and one of the employees became seriously ill, but eventually recovered.

After Shella and her team hastily left the commune in September 1985, Osho called a press conference at which he provided information about their crimes and asked the prosecutor's office to initiate an investigation. As a result of the investigation, Shella and many of her employees were detained and later convicted. Even though Osho himself was not involved in criminal activities, his reputation (especially in the West) suffered significant damage.

On October 23, 1985, a federal jury in closed session considered an indictment against Osho in connection with violations of immigration laws. On October 28, 1985, after a flight to Osho, he was detained without an arrest warrant (at this time charges had not yet been officially filed), citing Osho’s attempt to leave the United States. For the same reason, Osho was denied bail. On the advice of his lawyers, Osho signed Alford plea- a document according to which the accused does not plead guilty, but agrees that there is evidence sufficient to convict him. As a result, Osho was given a suspended sentence and deported from the United States.

In November 1987, Osho stated that during the 12 days he spent in US prisons, he was subjected to poisoning, on which he slept and was poisoned.

Osho's teachings

In presenting Osho's views on the true nature of man and methods of addressing it, one should be very vigilant and aware; Rajneesh did not write books, but conveyed his teachings in the form of conversations, each time addressed to a specific audience or even a specific person. It is not surprising that with such a contextual presentation, some of the material was framed in a new way each time, and in some conversations one can find a significant difference from what was said before - for example, Osho could say to one person: “The world is static,” and to another, “The world is constantly is changing!” In this way, he tried to bring a person to a “balance point” so that he would not be one-sided, but would always be in search. Many people are puzzled by the contradictions in Osho's conversations. This is what he says about this: “My friends are surprised: “Yesterday you said one thing, and today you said something else. Why should we obey?" I can understand their bewilderment. They grabbed only words. Conversations have no value for me, only the emptiness between the words I utter is what is valuable. Yesterday I opened the doors to my emptiness with the help of words alone, today I open them using other words. The emptiness that appears between the words is what is important to me. The doors can be wooden, gold, silver; maybe they are decorated with patterns of leaves and flowers. They will be simple or ornamented - "None of this matters. Only the open door, the empty space, has meaning. For me, words are just a tool to help open the emptiness."

Osho on Joy

Singing and dancing are undoubtedly the language of joy, but you can learn a language without knowing joy. This is what all of humanity does: people learn only gestures, empty gestures.

"What is the reason for your joy. Teacher?" Osho explains this quote as follows: Joy has no reason, joy cannot have a reason. If joy has a reason, it is not joy at all; joy can only be causeless, unconditional. There is a reason for illness, but for health?.. Health is natural. Ask the doctor: "Why am I healthy?" - he won’t answer. He can answer the question: "Why am I sick?" - for illness has a cause. He can diagnose the cause, determine why you are sick, but no one can find the reason why a person is healthy. Health is natural, health is the way it should be. Illness is something that shouldn't be. Illness means something is wrong. When everything is in order, a person is healthy. When everything is in tune, a person is healthy, there is no reason. "

Osho movement

Rajneesh completely disapproved of any associations, including religious ones, and repeatedly warned his followers against creating “follower” type organizations; he recommended, in the event of his death, to immediately go in search of a “living Master.”

However, this order was not fulfilled, and after the departure of the Master, the “new sannyas” organized many Osho centers around the world; the most famous of these is the "meditation resort" in Pune, India. The centers offer group meditations - developed by both Rajneesh and his students.

Followers of Osho in Russia

  • With the beginning of perestroika, many of Osho's books were translated and published in Russian.

Sources

Links

  • Enlightenment Osho
  • Osho (Russian)
  • Russian Osho portal All information about Osho in Russian.
  • All Osho's books in one file Library Koob.ru
  • All Osho's books are in Russian in the Library of the Hindustan website. RU
  • Lotus Library (ru) More than 50 books are available in electronic form.
  • 116 books + 4 unique ones, 42 films (9 DVDs), 221 large photos of Osho.
  • Osho Library (ru) More than 90 books in electronic format.
  • Osho books for pocket computers. (ru) About 40 books.
  • Osho RebelliousSpirit.com (en) Osho meditations in different parts of the world. Sannyas magazine. Directory of Osho sites.
  • Osho Zen Tarot (online fortune telling) is a comprehensive Zen game. Bhagawan Shree Rajneesh (OSHO). Biographies, books, photographs. (Russian)
  • Osho - photographs, books, everything about Osho. (Russian)
  • Osho forum (forum about Osho, meditation and inner search) (Russian)

Criticism

  • Chapter 11 from the book by A.L. Dworkin's "Sect Studies", dedicated in particular to the cult of Osho Rajneesh
  • The cult of Rajneesh (Osho) in the directory of the Novosibirsk Center for Sectarianism in the name of St. Alexander Nevsky

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    Moscow 2002

    BBK 84.5 ID 096

    096 Life and death.

    Moscow, Nirvana, 2002, 320 p. ISBN 5-94726-004-2

    Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, is the enlightened master of our time. "Osho" means "like the ocean", "blessed".

    The book “Life and Death” is a series of talks by Osho about death in a meditation camp in the Indian city of Dwarka.

    “...If there is no death, then we never actually die, whether we realize the truth or not. The world does not consist of those people who die and those people who do not die. No, that's not true. In this world, no one ever dies. However, there are two types of people. The former know that there is no death, but the latter do not know. And that's the only difference."

    “First of all, you need to understand that conquering death does not imply conquering death. Victory over death simply means that you come to know that there is no death. The knowledge that there is no death is what its conquest means. There is no need to conquer death. As soon as a person learns that there is no death, our battle with death and its endless defeats immediately stops.”

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    I remember the first time I realized that I would someday have to die. I was nine years old at the time, and I was so scared that my stomach hurt and I started to have a fever. My mother tried to find out what I ate that made me go to bed. I couldn't admit to her that it really happened. I knew that no one could help me, no one would deny that I would someday die. So I just lay in bed and shook with fear until some time later when the fear finally left me. He left as suddenly as he came. I didn’t know then, but perhaps every person I knew carried a similar fear within himself. Nobody ever talked about death. They thought they had cut themselves off from her. This is how I grew up: uptight, distrustful, fearful...

    This is what we are all like: mortal people, clinging with a death grip to everything that comes our way. In our lust for life, we collect things, people, ideas. We become attached to deceased relatives, we waste time in search of power, we chase everything that can give us a sense of permanence on this earth. But at the same time, we live life only halfway. We have become schizophrenics. It never occurs to us to consider what we are running from. It never occurs to us that we are running from something at all...

    In the fall of 1969, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh gave a series of lectures at a meditation camp in Dwarka, Gujarat, India. He told everyone who was busy searching for the truth who gathered around him about life and death. He told them that the only way to live fully is to experience death, to accept death, to penetrate into it, to understand death in all its aspects. He conducted meditations that helped them feel their insignificance. He forced them to search in every secret corner of their lives and the universe to discover how death dances hand in hand with life, as its partner and as its hidden self.

    This book contains these lectures. He speaks to you and to me. He gives us the key to life, shows us the witness, shows us the divine origin of all things and asks us to throw away our hopes, preconceptions, desires and drown in his Ocean.

    Its ocean is unknown to us, but we are still latently drawn to it. We can feel its freshness in the breeze.

    Remembering that episode when I was nine years old, I think about how great it would be if someone then told me: yes, it's true, you really are going to die someday... And instead of turn away in fear from this question, someone would take me by the hand and say: “Look - here is death. Just make friends with her, open your whole body and soul to her. Die to the fear that makes you feel separate, and then the joy of life will return to you..."

    As He tells us: “...he who learns the art of dying will also become an expert in the art of living...” I know that I am beginning to understand this, and little by little I am learning the immense freedom that this gives.

    Ma Krishna Gopa, M.M. (RIMU), Siddha

    Chapter 1

    There is no greater lie, than death

    We are released from the information we received. At the same time, we feel triumphant about what we have learned. The reason for our failures and defeats is only our ignorance. The basis of defeat is darkness; when there is light, defeat is impossible - light itself means triumph.

    The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no greater lie than death. Despite this, death seems real. It seems not just the truth, but the cardinal truth of life - it seems that all life is surrounded by death. Whether we forget about it or neglect it, death remains close to us everywhere. Death is even closer to us than our shadow.

    We even build our lives based on the fear of death. The fear of death created society, nation, family and friends. Because of the fear of death, we chase money, because of it we have become ambitious and power-hungry. Ironically, our gods and temples were also created out of fear of death. Gripped by the fear of death, some people pray on their knees. Gripped by the fear of death, some people pray to God, stretching out their hands pleadingly to the sky. At the same time, nothing is as false as death. Therefore, any of our life systems based on belief in death is false.

    How can you know that a death is fake? How do you know that death does not exist at all? Until we know this, the fear of death will remain. Until we learn that death is false, our life will also remain false. As long as there is fear of death, there can be no true life. As long as we tremble with the fear of death, we are unable to live our lives properly. Only those for whom the shadow of death has disappeared forever can live. How can a fearful and trembling mind live? Is it possible to live when death is approaching every second? How Can live like this?

    No matter how disdainful we are towards death, we will not be able to completely forget about it. And it doesn’t matter that we place the cemetery outside the city - death will still manifest itself. Every day someone dies; Every day death reaches someone and it undermines the foundation of our entire life.

    When we witness someone's death, we are reminded of our own death.. When we cry over a dead person, we cry not only for him, but also from the awareness of our own mortality. The cause of our suffering, pain and grief is not only the death of someone else, but also the possibility of our own death. The death of another person simultaneously represents our own death. And when we are surrounded by death on all sides, how can we live? It's impossible to live like that. If we live like this, we will never know what life is - its joy, its beauty, its blessing. If we live like this, we will not be able to reach the temple of God, the highest truth of life.

    Temples that were built out of fear of death are not temples of God. Prayers that were composed out of fear of death are also not prayers to God. Only those who are filled with the joy of life reach the temple of God. The kingdom of God is full of joy and beauty, and the bells of God's temple ring only for those who are free from all fears, for those who are fearless. Because we like to live in fear, it seems difficult. But this is impossible - only one of the two can be correct. Remember: if life is true, then death cannot be true, and if death is true, then life is nothing more than a dream, a lie; then life cannot be true. These two categories cannot exist simultaneously. But we hold on to both. It feels like we are alive and yet dead at the same time.



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