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| The Art of Dying talks on Hasidism by Osho 10 talks given live Oct. 1976 Pune, India |

Osho, How can we prepare ourselves for death? Don’t accumulate anything whatever: power, money, prestige, virtue, knowledge, even the so- called spiritual experiences. Don’t accumulate. If you don’t accumulate you are ready to die any moment, because you have nothing to lose. The fear of death is not really fear of death; the fear of death comes out of the accumulations of life. Then you have too much to lose. You cling to it. That is the meaning of Jesus’ saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit. I don’t mean become a beggar, and I don’t mean renounce the world. I mean be in the world, but don’t be of the world. Don’t accumulate inside, be poor in spirit. Never possess anything – and then you are ready to die. Possessiveness is the problem, not life itself. The more you possess, the more you are afraid to lose. If you don’t possess anything, if your purity, if your spirit is uncontaminated by anything, if you are simply there alone, you can disappear any moment; whenever death knocks on the door it will find you ready. You are not losing anything. By going with death you are not a loser. You may be moving into a new experience... The Art of Dying, ch. 2 |
Chinese pinyin: Siwang de yishu Chinese traditional: 死亡的藝術 Chinese simplified: 死亡的艺术 |
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Complete English text Click here |
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