presents
OSHO: The Best Time to Celebrate
knowing life,
slowly your awareness grows.
And with awareness growing,
you start feeling
that you are not the body.
You are in the body,
but you are not the body.
With awareness growing still more,
you start feeling that you are not the mind either;
you are in the mind,
but not the mind.
Slowly you are coming
to your very center.
And that center is simply awareness,
from where you can watch your mind,
your emotions, thoughts,
body, pain,
pleasure – everything.
But you are simply a watcher,
unidentified with anything else
that you are watching.
Now this watcher
remains watching even in your sleep.
The day you can feel your watcher even in your sleep,
that day you know:
now
death
is nothing but
a longer sleep.
For the body
it
it is eternal sleep,
but the watcher
simply
moves forwards,
enters into another
womb,
into another
body.
And this movement continues,
this transmigration of the soul continues
till
your watchfulness
is absolutely pure.
When the flame is without any smoke,
then you disappear
into the universal,
into the existential.
Then you are not
going into another house;
you don't need any house any more,
you have learned the lesson.
That was a school:
moving from one house to another
was moving from one class to another.
But one day
you graduate –
you become part of existence.
That's why we celebrate,
because there is no death.
Either the man
is going into a new house –
a good time to celebrate –
or the man is going into
the eternal existence.
The best time to celebrate,
and the last time to celebrate.
And celebrating death
will help you
to understand
that
there is nothing
in life
to be afraid of.
If death is a celebration,
then what else
can be a cause of fear?
And if you can celebrate death,
you have attained a maturity.
It is possible only
to those
who live life
as a rejoicing,
a constant celebration.
Then death is not the termination,
but only
a small incident
of changing your clothes, your house, your body.
But
you remain exactly the same
forever –
nothing changes in your intrinsic being.
From eternity
to eternity
you are exactly
the same.
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