Death is within you

A Cup of Tea (161); “Death is within you, because death is the other side of life. Life cannot exist without death; they both belong to the same energy as positive and negative poles.”

Love.

Fear cripples consciousness,

and fear is the source of unconsciousness, that is

why without transcending fear

no one can attain to full consciousness.

But what is fear?

Fear is awareness of death without knowing what

death is.

Fear exists in the gap between you and your death,

and if there is no gap, no space,

then there is no fear.

Do not think of death as something outside you

because it is not.

And do not think of death as something in the

future

because it is not.

Death is within you,

because death is the other side of life.

Life cannot exist without death;

they both belong to the same energy as positive and

negative poles.

So do not identify yourself with life –

because you are both.

The identification with life creates the gap.

And death has nothing to do with the future –

it is always here and now.

Every moment, it is.

And when one ceases to regard it as something

outside oneself

and, so to speak, draws it into his consciousness

and assimilates the idea of it,

one is completely changed.

He is in all truth born again.

And then there is no fear

because then there is no gap.

Osho, A Cup of Tea, letter 161

Osho in Mt. Abu – photo by Dhinubhai – credit to Osho Resources Centre (oshoresourcecenter.com – facebook.com)