Death Simply Helps Birth To Happen
Osho
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Human beings are the only species that is not born complete, not born closed, not born like a thing; who is born like a process. Man is open. His being consists in becoming.That is the crisis. The more he becomes, the more he is.We cannot take ourselves for granted, otherwise we stagnate and vegetate. Life disappears. Life remains only when you are moving from one place to another place. Life is that movement between two places. You can't be alive at one place that's the difference between a dead thing and a live phenomenon. A dead thing is static. The live thing not only moves, it also leaps, jumps. The dead thing remains always in the known. The live phenomenon goes on moving from the known towards the unknown. This is the 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 dying and 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 it is 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.
The 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.“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 and you 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 with the past. You can avoid the crisis: that's what millions of people have decided.But then they remain mediocre, then they only age, they don't grow. They are stuck. Their life becomes a wasteland and they never come to see the ocean.Only when you come to see the ocean and when you enter into the ocean do you know what bliss is.
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 dying and 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 it is 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.
The 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.“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 and you 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 with the past. You can avoid the crisis: that's what millions of people have decided.But then they remain mediocre, then they only age, they don't grow. They are stuck. Their life becomes a wasteland and they never come to see the ocean.Only when you come to see the ocean and when you enter into the ocean do you know what bliss is.
