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opposite to the one you have been accustomed to...
[A sannyasin, who is leaving, says: I am dying... I had an experience some days ago...
Osho checks her energy.]
Dying? That's great! That's my only hope, mm?...
The experience has been really deep. Don't get frightened....
[She says: It was peaceful but I got frightened.]
Yes, that's natural, that is natural. It was peaceful but the peace was very deep. We get frightened of depth. Our life has become very much accustomed to the shallow, to the superficial. Any depth and we become afraid: we may get lost in it and then may not be able to return. We start clinging to the superficial. So any experience of death is good because it is really the experience of depth. But the mind interprets it as if it is an experience of death. It is not, it is an experience of more life, of abundant life. Death is just a fiction. Nobody has ever died -- that is the greatest fiction there is. Nobody can die, death is impossible. It is all life and all continuous life. We go on changing forms but we never die. We cannot die. We are parts of this universe and the universe cannot die.
But when you start falling into depth it will be abysmal, it will look bottomless -- falling like a feather into a bottomless abyss. Fear is natural, but one has to understand the fear and by-pass it. One has to invite these experiences again and again in spite of the fear, because that is the only way for the fear to go. And after each experience you will feel more alive than ever -- more loving, more silent, more blissful, more peaceful. Then you will see that it is not death that is happening; it is real life that is happening, for the first time life is happening. You have been dead up to now, now you have become alive, but because you have been thinking of death as your life, this life will look like death; it is just the opposite of it.
But with going into it a little more all fear will disappear. And when fear disappears, love arises. So invite these moments more and more. I am there to protect you -- don't be worried. Just go with absolute trust and surrender into these experiences. And much more
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