Death Simply Helps Birth To Happen
human beings are the onty species that is not born complete, not born closed, not born like a ng; who is born like a process. Man is m. His being consists in becoming. at is the crisis. The more he becomes, more he is. We cannot take ourselves for mted, otherwise we stagnate and etate. Life disappears. Life remains y when you are moving from one che to another place. Life is that vement between two places. You 't be alive at one place-that's the erence between a dead thing and a phenomenon. A dead thingis ic. The live thing not only moves, it leaps, jumps. The dead thing aims always in the known. The live nomenon goes on moving from the win towards the unknown. This is crisis You have to go on moving. Movement creates problems because movement means you have to go on dying to that which you know, to the past, which is familiar, comfortable, cosy. You have lived it, you have become skilful about it, you have learnt much about it; now there is no danger in it. It fits with you, you fit with it. But one has to move, go on the adventure-from the known to the unknown. Your being wants to explore; it has an intrinsic discontent; i call it divine discontent. Whatsoever you have, whatsoever you are, you are finished with it; you want to have that which you don't have, and you want to be that which you are not. Man is constantly dyingand constantly being born. In man death and birth are like two wings of a bird, complementary, helping each other. Death simply helps the birth to happen. It is like a gate: from one side itis entrance, from the other side it is exit. Or, it is like breathing: the same breath going inwards is called inhalation, and the same breath going outwards is called exhalation. he mind wants to cling to the known and the familiar, naturally; mind is efficient with it. Somehow it has learnt it. And now suddenly you move. All that learning is lost, it will never again be relevant. In no other situation will it have any meaning. It can only have meaning with the situation in which you have lived. tree "Cling to it,"the mind says. The being is like the sky-it cannot be contained by the mind that is too narrow. The being wants to go to the farthest corner of existence. The being is an adventure. The being wants to risk-this is the crisis. And each person has to face this crisis.And there are two alternatives: out of fear you stop dying to the past anyou become stuck, stagnant. People become pools instead of rivers. They go on shrinking, they never know the joy of flow. You can remain secure and safe withe past. You can avoid the crisis: that what millions of people have decided. But then they remain mediocre, then they only age, they don't grow. They AR stuck. Their life becomes a wasteland and they never come to see the ocean. Only when you come to see the ocean andwhenyou enter into the ocean do you know what bliss is.
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Death Simply Helps Birth To Happen
human beings are the onty species that is not born complete, not born closed, not born like a ng; who is born like a process. Man is m. His being consists in becoming. at is the crisis. The more he becomes, more he is. We cannot take ourselves for mted, otherwise we stagnate and etate. Life disappears. Life remains y when you are moving from one che to another place. Life is that vement between two places. You 't be alive at one place-that's the erence between a dead thing and a phenomenon. A dead thingis ic. The live thing not only moves, it leaps, jumps. The dead thing aims always in the known. The live nomenon goes on moving from the win towards the unknown. This is crisis You have to go on moving. Movement creates problems because movement means you have to go on dying to that which you know, to the past, which is familiar, comfortable, cosy. You have lived it, you have become skilful about it, you have learnt much about it; now there is no danger in it. It fits with you, you fit with it. But one has to move, go on the adventure-from the known to the unknown. Your being wants to explore; it has an intrinsic discontent; i call it divine discontent. Whatsoever you have, whatsoever you are, you are finished with it; you want to have that which you don't have, and you want to be that which you are not. Man is constantly dyingand constantly being born. In man death and birth are like two wings of a bird, complementary, helping each other. Death simply helps the birth to happen. It is like a gate: from one side itis entrance, from the other side it is exit. Or, it is like breathing: the same breath going inwards is called inhalation, and the same breath going outwards is called exhalation. he mind wants to cling to the known and the familiar, naturally; mind is efficient with it. Somehow it has learnt it. And now suddenly you move. All that learning is lost, it will never again be relevant. In no other situation will it have any meaning. It can only have meaning with the situation in which you have lived. tree "Cling to it,"the mind says. The being is like the sky-it cannot be contained by the mind that is too narrow. The being wants to go to the farthest corner of existence. The being is an adventure. The being wants to risk-this is the crisis. And each person has to face this crisis.And there are two alternatives: out of fear you stop dying to the past anyou become stuck, stagnant. People become pools instead of rivers. They go on shrinking, they never know the joy of flow. You can remain secure and safe withe past. You can avoid the crisis: that what millions of people have decided. But then they remain mediocre, then they only age, they don't grow. They AR stuck. Their life becomes a wasteland and they never come to see the ocean. Only when you come to see the ocean andwhenyou enter into the ocean do you know what bliss is.
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The views expressed in the Article above are Osho kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : Osho Speaking Tree and Times of India