Terror & Death :: Osho

Terror and death are interrelated. If we were not afraid of death, the fear of terror would not strike and the world would not be so terrorized by terror. The earliest case of terror I remember is the Munich Olympics, where sportsmen for the first time were held hostage and the world was terrorized. The fear of death and a sense of defeat that the western world experienced leveraged the PLO as a terror outfit led by Yasser Arafat. Later on PLO became respected and changed its image to freedom fighter organisation.

This fear which comes from the fear of death in human beings has been exploited by political aspirants to force the other side into accepting their demands. The Kandahar plane hijack case is fresh in the memories where the terrorists made the government accept their demands in exchange for releasing the hostages.

Of course, death can either be a very terrifying experience or tremendously beautiful. It depends on the attitude. If you feel terrified in death then you will die, but you will not be resurrected. If death becomes a beautiful experience, then you are dying and at the same time resurrecting. Ordinarily death is terror; that's why you are so afraid to die. In life nothing beautiful happens until you die, but you are terrified. .”
OSHO
Excerpted from: Come Follow to You, Vol-1, # 4

The recent Mumbai terror strike has created unrest in two countries thereby serving the interests of the fundamentalist terror groups who would not like to have peace and friendship between the two countries.

“We are alive and yet we do not know what life is. It is because of our lack of knowledge about life that we think death happens. Death is a kind of ignorance. And ignorance about life inevitably results in death. If we could only know the life within us! A single ray of the knowledge of out inner life would remove our everlasting ignorance about death forever. It would dispel our blind belief that we can die, that we have died before, that we will die again. But we do not know the light that we are, the light that is our selves, and we are afraid of the darkness, afraid of something that is totally alien to us. We never encounter the light that is us, that is our very being, our soul, our life, our power -- and yet we fear the darkness that is not within us at all.
Man is not death; man is the nectar of the gods. But we do not even lift our eyes to see the cup that is held out to us. We never probe into life, never take a single step towards uncovering its meaning. We remain strangers to life and approach death in terror.”
OSHO
Excerpted from: The Long, The Short and the All, # 5

The inherent fear of death inside us leads us to succumb to terrorism. Osho has explained clearly that about this fear of death. To be fearless one has to live and experience life fully so that fear disappears on its own. As Osho says death is a myth. Once this is realized then there is no fear. And the key to realize is meditation. In meditation, we have the key to living in totality and to experience death. The world may never be able to resolve the fear of terrorism as George Bush tried.

“One who has lived totally, he celebrates death too -- because death comes to him as the ultimate challenge of the unknown. And that has been his whole life: to accept challenges from the unknown. He will welcome death and enter death with a song and with a dance, because he knows there is something in him which is indestructible, which knows no death.”
OSHO
Excerpted from: Zarathustra: The Laughing Prophet, # 1

The way is the way of Osho. If only His message can be spread more widely without fetter or any church or Vatican, it may be possible that a large mass of humanity becomes meditative which will result in being loving. If that happens, our newspapers will stop to be filled with news of terror from around the world.

Osho’s books are being published in various languages around the globe but it looks like a fraction of what is possible. People are thirsty for Osho in diverse countries from Russia to Chile and from Iran to Fiji, there seems to be no limit. Mails received from around the globe at Osho World indicate this interest in Osho. But except a very few countries, Osho’s books and discourses are not available. Either the books are not published there or are restricted by the government of that land or restricted by the “so called” copyrights. If this imaginary hurdle of copyright is not there, then Osho’s work can bloom many fold in the form of publications. If sannyasins take up this challenge of publication and distribution in every nook and corner of the world, then the day is not far when the earth would be covered by His way-The Way of the white clouds.

Source: Editor (http://www.oshoworld.com)

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