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I want it to be a very rational thing. Make it seventy-five years or eighty years; then life is lived enough. The children are grown up... when you are eighty your children will be fifty, fifty-five; they are getting old. Now there is no need for you to be bothered and worried. You are retired; now you are simply a burden, you don't know what to do.
And that is why old people are so irritable: because they don't have any work, they don't have any respect, they don't have any dignity. Nobody bothers about them, nobody takes note of them. They are ready to fight and be angry and shout. These are simply their frustrations that are showing; the real thing is they want to die. But they cannot even say it. It is unchristian, it is irreligious -- the very idea of death.
They should be given freedom, but not only to die; they should be given the freedom of one month's training in how to die. In that training meditation should be a basic part; physical care should be a basic part. They should die healthy, whole, silent, peaceful -- slowly slipping deep into sleep.
And if meditation has been joined with sleep they may die enlightened. They may know that only the body is left behind, and they are part of eternity.
Their death will be better than the ordinary death, because in the ordinary death you don't have the chance of becoming enlightened. In fact more and more people will prefer to die in the hospitals, in the special institutes for death where every arrangement is made. You can leave life in a joyous, ecstatic way, with great thankfulness and gratitude.
I am all for euthanasia, but with these conditions.
Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Time knows only the present tense
20 February 1986 am in
Archive code: 8602200
ShortTitle: SOCRAT02
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 101 mins
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATRED, BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD?
They are the two sides of the same coin; there is not much difference. Love can change into hate, hate can change into love. And this
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