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A person is born to achieve life, and whether they do so or not depends on them. They may miss it. They may breathe, eat, continue to age, they may continue to move towards the grave – but that is not life. It is a gradual dying, beginning at birth and ending at the grave, a seventy-year gradual death. And since millions of people around you are dying this gradual, slow death, you too begin to imitate them. Children learn everything from those who surround them, and we are surrounded by the dead. Therefore, first of all, you should understand what I mean by the word "life."
It must be more than just aging. It must be growing. And these are two different things. Every animal is capable of aging. Growing is the prerogative of human beings. And only a few people use this right. Growing is an instantaneous, ever-deepening immersion in the stream of life, it is moving away from death further and further – it is a movement not towards death. The deeper you go into life, the more you realize the immortality within yourself – you move away from death. There comes a moment when you can see that death is nothing more than a change of clothes, a change of home, a change of form – nothing dies, nothing can die.
Death is the greatest of all illusions.
As for growing, just observe a tree. When a tree grows, its roots grow downwards, into the depths. There is a balance: the higher the tree grows, the deeper its roots penetrate. A tree of great height with short roots cannot survive; they will not be able to hold such a huge tree. To grow in life means to delve into oneself – to where your roots are.
In my opinion, the first principle of life is meditation. Everything else comes after. And childhood is the best time. You age, and that means you are getting closer to death, which means it is becoming more and more difficult to enter into meditation. Meditation means entering into your immortality, entering into your eternity, entering into your divinity. And a child is most suited for this, because he is not yet burdened with knowledge, not burdened with religion, not burdened with education, not burdened with all sorts of nonsense. He is innocent. But, unfortunately, his innocence is condemned as ignorance. Ignorance and innocence are similar, but they are not the same. Ignorance is the absence of knowledge, just as is innocence. But there is also a huge difference that humanity has not yet paid attention to.
Innocence not only does not possess knowledge – but it does not strive to acquire it. It is completely satisfied, content with itself. A small child has no ambitions, no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment – a flying bird captures his attention so completely; just a butterfly, its beautiful colors – and he is enchanted; a rainbow in the sky – and he cannot imagine that there could be anything more important, more valuable than this rainbow. The night sky is filled with stars, myriads of stars for him.
Innocence is wealth, it is fullness, it is purity.
Ignorance is poor, it is like a beggar, it wants this, it wants that, it wants to possess knowledge, it wants to be respectable, it wants to be rich, it wants to be powerful. Ignorance goes the way of desire. But since neither contains knowledge, we have not yet understood their nature. We have come to believe that these two things are the same.
The first step in the art of life will be to distinguish between ignorance and innocence. Innocence should be supported, protected – because the child brings with him the greatest treasure, that treasure that the wise men acquire after strenuous efforts. The wise say that they have become children again, that they have been reborn.
In India, the true Brahmin, the true knower, calls himself "dwijemu" – twice-born. Why twice-born? What happened to the first birth? What is the need for a second birth? And what is he going to get in the second birth? "In the second birth, he will receive what was available in the first, but was destroyed, broken by society, by parents, by the people around him."
Every child is not filled with knowledge. His simplicity must somehow be eliminated – because simplicity will not help him in this world of competition. Because of it, he will look like a simpleton in the eyes of the world; his innocence will be used in all sorts of ways. Fearing society, fearing the world, we are forced to remake ourselves; we try to make every child smart, "cunning, filled with knowledge, so that he can acquire the most prestigious position in society. And the child, once he begins to grow in the wrong direction, continues to move in that direction – all his life goes in that direction.
Once you realize that you have missed life, the first thing you need to regain is innocence. Throw away your knowledge, forget your writings, forget your religions, your theology, your philosophy. Be born again, become innocent – and this is in your power. Cleanse your mind of all alien ideas, of everything borrowed, of everything that has come from traditions, customs, of everything that is given to you by others – by parents, teachers, university professors. Just get rid of it.
Become simple again, become a child again. And this miracle is possible with the help of meditation. Meditation is simply an unusual surgical method that cuts you off from everything alien and leaves only what is your true being. It burns away everything superfluous and leaves you naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. You become as if the first person who came to earth, who knows nothing, who must discover everything, who must be a seeker, who must go on a journey...
Osho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyA-3kuEDHA -
We drank life but did not become wiser.
We lived death but did not become younger.
Sweeper, dear sweeper. Sweep me off the pavement...
Oh God, you and I in the shade by the water
We walked the road of dreams
And now we wither like flowers
Dandelions, girls and boys
Eyes shine, la la laila
But this is poison, la la laila... (Agata Kristi - Dvornyk)
It must be more than just aging. It must be growing. And these are two different things. Every animal is capable of aging. Growing is the prerogative of human beings. And only a few people use this right. Growing is an instantaneous, ever-deepening immersion in the stream of life, it is moving away from death further and further – it is a movement not towards death. The deeper you go into life, the more you realize the immortality within yourself – you move away from death. There comes a moment when you can see that death is nothing more than a change of clothes, a change of home, a change of form – nothing dies, nothing can die.
Death is the greatest of all illusions.
As for growing, just observe a tree. When a tree grows, its roots grow downwards, into the depths. There is a balance: the higher the tree grows, the deeper its roots penetrate. A tree of great height with short roots cannot survive; they will not be able to hold such a huge tree. To grow in life means to delve into oneself – to where your roots are.
In my opinion, the first principle of life is meditation. Everything else comes after. And childhood is the best time. You age, and that means you are getting closer to death, which means it is becoming more and more difficult to enter into meditation. Meditation means entering into your immortality, entering into your eternity, entering into your divinity. And a child is most suited for this, because he is not yet burdened with knowledge, not burdened with religion, not burdened with education, not burdened with all sorts of nonsense. He is innocent. But, unfortunately, his innocence is condemned as ignorance. Ignorance and innocence are similar, but they are not the same. Ignorance is the absence of knowledge, just as is innocence. But there is also a huge difference that humanity has not yet paid attention to.
Innocence not only does not possess knowledge – but it does not strive to acquire it. It is completely satisfied, content with itself. A small child has no ambitions, no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment – a flying bird captures his attention so completely; just a butterfly, its beautiful colors – and he is enchanted; a rainbow in the sky – and he cannot imagine that there could be anything more important, more valuable than this rainbow. The night sky is filled with stars, myriads of stars for him.
Innocence is wealth, it is fullness, it is purity.
Ignorance is poor, it is like a beggar, it wants this, it wants that, it wants to possess knowledge, it wants to be respectable, it wants to be rich, it wants to be powerful. Ignorance goes the way of desire. But since neither contains knowledge, we have not yet understood their nature. We have come to believe that these two things are the same.
The first step in the art of life will be to distinguish between ignorance and innocence. Innocence should be supported, protected – because the child brings with him the greatest treasure, that treasure that the wise men acquire after strenuous efforts. The wise say that they have become children again, that they have been reborn.
In India, the true Brahmin, the true knower, calls himself "dwijemu" – twice-born. Why twice-born? What happened to the first birth? What is the need for a second birth? And what is he going to get in the second birth? "In the second birth, he will receive what was available in the first, but was destroyed, broken by society, by parents, by the people around him."
Every child is not filled with knowledge. His simplicity must somehow be eliminated – because simplicity will not help him in this world of competition. Because of it, he will look like a simpleton in the eyes of the world; his innocence will be used in all sorts of ways. Fearing society, fearing the world, we are forced to remake ourselves; we try to make every child smart, "cunning, filled with knowledge, so that he can acquire the most prestigious position in society. And the child, once he begins to grow in the wrong direction, continues to move in that direction – all his life goes in that direction.
Once you realize that you have missed life, the first thing you need to regain is innocence. Throw away your knowledge, forget your writings, forget your religions, your theology, your philosophy. Be born again, become innocent – and this is in your power. Cleanse your mind of all alien ideas, of everything borrowed, of everything that has come from traditions, customs, of everything that is given to you by others – by parents, teachers, university professors. Just get rid of it.
Become simple again, become a child again. And this miracle is possible with the help of meditation. Meditation is simply an unusual surgical method that cuts you off from everything alien and leaves only what is your true being. It burns away everything superfluous and leaves you naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. You become as if the first person who came to earth, who knows nothing, who must discover everything, who must be a seeker, who must go on a journey...
Osho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyA-3kuEDHA -
We drank life but did not become wiser.
We lived death but did not become younger.
Sweeper, dear sweeper. Sweep me off the pavement...
Oh God, you and I in the shade by the water
We walked the road of dreams
And now we wither like flowers
Dandelions, girls and boys
Eyes shine, la la laila
But this is poison, la la laila... (Agata Kristi - Dvornyk)