Death Comes Dancing: Celebrating Life with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Osho PDF
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Ma Satya Bharti DEATH COMES DANCING im Celebrating Life with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh L Death Comes Dancing Death Comes Dancing Celebrating Life With Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Ma Satya Bharti Routledge & Kegan Paul London, Boston and Henley Firstpublished in 1981 by Routledge& Kegan Paul Ltd 39Store Street, London WC1E 7DD, 9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA, and Broadway House, Newtown Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 IEN Set in 10 on 12Journal by Hope Services, Abingdon andprinted in Great Britain by Billing& Sons Ltd Guildford, London, Oxfordand Worcester © Rajneesh Foundation 1981 Nopart ofthis book may be reproducedin anyform withoutpermissionfrom the publisher, exceptfor the quotation ofbrief passages in criticism British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data SatyaBharti, Ma Death comes dancing. 1. Rajneesh, Shree Bhagwan I. Title 291.6'092'4 BP610.R/ 80-41144 ISBNO 7100 0705 1 CONTENTS Preface vu PartOne 1 Introduction to Part One 3 1 Laughing our way to God 6 2 Dynamic Meditation 13 3 Taking sannyas 21 4 Remembering past lives 25 5 Growingup: a return to innocence 34 6 My family's response 42 7 The sannyasin way of death 48 8 Bhagwan's ashram: the marketplace and the temple 56 9 Work as a Zen koan 60 10 Knowing and confusion 67 11 Surrendering to the sangha 72 12 Therapy groups 78 13 Celebrating life 87 PartTwo 99 Introduction to PartTwo 101 14 Love at firstsound 102 15 From sex to samadhi 112 16 Chaitanya 119 17 Food, sex and money 126 PartThree 141 Introduction to Part Three 143 18 Satoris 145 19 It'shappening again 155 20 A taste of Buddhahood 169 Epilogue 178 Blessed is the man who is courageous enough to be a disciple. It needs courage. It needs tremendous will-power to surrender. Cowards can't surrender; only very strong people can surrender. Surrender is possible only ifyou are grounded, centred. Then you know that you can surren- der and you will not disappear. You can surrender, and the surrender will bring freedom to you. Via the guru, you will come to yourself. To find a master is the greatest blessing that can happen to a man. More than that is not possible. God is far away; a master is a midpoint: he is human and yet divine. That's why Jesus says, 'I am the son of God, and I am the son ofman.' He is aguru, a master. The guru is more mysterious than God because he is a paradox: a meeting place ofman and God. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh PREFACE For the last five years I've been a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an enlightened master living in Poona, India. What an enlightened master is, and what it means to be with him, is what this book is about. I wanted to write the story of how Bhagwan works as a master, but instead, it seems, I've written my own story as a disciple. It's one ver- sion of Bhagwan, necessarily biased, necessarily incomplete. It's Bhag- wan filtered through the prism of my experiences. More than facts, and less than the truth. 'The only way to come to the truth', Bhagwan says, 'is to pass through a great myth. Religion can't exist without myth. Because Christ's followers were so obsessed with history, with facts, they couldn't create a myth around Christ. That's why Christianity became so political, so steeped in dogmatism. 'An epic was created around Ram, a story was created around Krishna. Everyone was at liberty. Valmiki wrote one thing, Tulsidas wrote something else. No one can say that they are contradictory. Mark and Luke are contradictory because they are writing history, but Tulsidas and Valmiki are not contradictory because they are not concerned with history at all. They say, "Even that which we have been trying to say is not enough. It is not the whole story." ' Only fragments of what happens around an enlightened master can ever be recorded. The phenomenon of what happens, the actuality of it, goes beyond words. We can only try to indicate it. What I've written is purely subjective. It's Bhagwan as I see him, limited by my own ex- periences and my own vision, and limited also by my ability to com- municate that vision. There's no need for anyone to create a myth around Bhagwan; he's creating his own myths. 'I'm creating a fiction here,' he says. 'The fiction of the master and the disciple, the fiction of the god and the devotee. It's a myth really. You can move through the myth to reach the truth. Preface 'An alive master is a myth: something of the untrue and something of the true, both. While I'm here the myth is alive; its heart is beating. Use this opportunity. When I'm gone, only the lie will remain.' To write about a living myth is difficult. Each day is contradicted by every other day. This book is about some ofthose contradictions. Poona, India 1977
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