OSHO: Jump into Life's Deepest Waters

OSHO International5 minutes read

Identifying with the body leads to aging and death; true living involves embracing life, love, and laughter fully. Avoid entrapments like marriage and seek intensity in all aspects of life to truly be alive through meditation, love, and creativity.

Insights

  • Identification with the body can distort our perception of age and mortality, hindering the experience of the ever-renewing nature of consciousness.
  • Embracing life fully through love, laughter, creativity, and mindfulness while avoiding societal entrapments can lead to a more vibrant and fulfilling existence.

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Recent questions

  • How can one overcome fear and embrace life fully?

    By engaging in activities like meditation, love, creativity, and enjoying small things, individuals can affirm life and dispel fear.

  • What should be avoided to prevent a deadening of life?

    One should avoid entrapments like marriage that can lead to a deadening of life, and instead seek intensity and totality in all aspects of life to truly be alive.

  • Why does identification with the body lead to the perception of aging and death?

    Identification with the body leads to the perception of aging and death because consciousness is always new, but when one identifies solely with the body, they become attached to the physical form which is subject to aging and mortality.

  • How can one truly live according to the summary?

    To truly live, one must embrace life, love, and laughter fully and without fear. This involves engaging in activities that affirm life, dispel fear, and seeking intensity and totality in all aspects of life.

  • What are some key elements to affirm life and dispel fear?

    Key elements to affirm life and dispel fear include engaging in meditation, love, creativity, and the enjoyment of small things. These activities help individuals maintain a life-affirmative approach and overcome fear.

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Embrace life fully, dispel fear, affirm existence.

  • Consciousness is always new, but identification with the body leads to the perception of aging and death.
  • To truly live, one must embrace life, love, and laughter fully and without fear.
  • Avoid entrapments like marriage that can lead to a deadening of life; seek intensity and totality in all aspects of life to truly be alive.
  • Embrace meditation, love, creativity, and the enjoyment of small things to affirm life and dispel fear, while always maintaining a life-affirmative approach.
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