Death

[Osho Rewa]

Q> What do you do on your planet when one of you dies?

Bashar> Celebrate.

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From Accelerating ET Contact - CD3 Track 4

[asjairok]

:D

[Osho Rewa]

Remember, until you die you cannot be reborn. As you are you have to pass through death. And you are clinging too much to life. That won't help – death will come. But death comes in two ways. One way, the usual way it comes: you are clinging to life and it comes as the enemy; you fight with it, you resist it, you do everything that you can do to avoid it. But how can you avoid it? The day you were born death became certain; every birth carries the seed of death. In fact, in life nothing else is certain but that. Everything is at the most probable, but death is certain. It will happen. You can avoid it, you can postpone it a little, but that doesn't change the situation. It will happen. One way to face death is as the enemy, which is the way ninety-nine per cent of people face it – and miss it. Because of their enmity they cannot use it, they cannot be profited by it, they cannot be served by death.

There is another way: to accept death as a friend, to accept it as an innermost part of your being, to enjoy it, to welcome it, to be ready for it and when it comes to embrace it. Suddenly the quality of death changes. It is no more death, it becomes a door. It no longer destroys you; on the contrary, you are served by it. It leads you to the deathless.

Die – you will have to die. But die gracefully. I am not saying die like a stoic, I am not saying die like a very controlled man. No, I'm saying die gracefully, beautifully, as if a friend is coming, knocks at your door, and you are happy. And you embrace the friend and invite him in, and you have been waiting for him so long....

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Osho Rajneesh

[Osho Rewa]

Why bother about death? When it comes, you can face it and you can know it.
Don't miss this opportunity of knowing life while life surrounds you.

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Osho Rajneesh

[Osho Rewa]

Video clip of a Death Celebration at the Osho Meditation Resort in Pune, India. the first time I saw a video of a death celebration I cried out of joy

YouTube- Death Celebration at The Osho International ç�«è‘¬å´é�œå¿ƒ 2004
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... id=5859855 (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=5859855)
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... id=5860126 (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=5860126)

[Osho Rewa]

The beginnings and endings that you call birth and death are more about helping you to focus than anything else. But they really are illusions. You are eternal beings. And when you re-emerge into nonphysical, you do not become less-than. You don’t become some nebulous, unfocused energy that just swirls around in nothingness. You assume that perspective of all-knowingness. You remember all that you are, not just the personality that you were.

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Abraham-Hicks, Los Angeles, CA, 2/1/03

[Crane]

"Don't Fear The Reaper"

Still a great one, Alex. Says it all very simply. Thanks for the lyrics. :clap: Nice reminder.

Dave