Go Dancingly

Every river reaches the ocean

RIVER
ONE LONG LINE
THROUGH SNOWY FIELDS

Nozawa Boncho

Life is just a river, a long river -- a long line through snowy fields. And then what happens? Each river, small or big, dissolves into the ocean, finds its way without any guide, without any sutras, without any masters. It may go astray, zigzag, but finally it reaches to the ocean. And that reaching to the ocean is becoming the ocean. That is the rebirth. That's what we mean by meditation.

Every river is destined to disappear one day into the ocean. Go dancingly, go joyfully. There is no need to be worried, there is no need to be hurried. The ocean is waiting -- you can take your time, but take your time with joy, not with tensions and anxieties. Rejoice and dance and sing and love, and finally you are going to disappear into the ocean. The ocean is always waiting for you.

Even though you are far away from the ocean you are part of it, always reaching, always coming closer to the ocean. Everybody is going to become a buddha today or tomorrow -- and there are only seven days in a week, so you can choose...!

Osho, excerpts from The Zen Manifesto: Freedom from Oneself #7

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Osho book recommendations

And Now, And Here: On Death, Dying and Past Lives

Death the Greatest Fiction

From Death to Deathlessness: Answers to the Seekers of the Path

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Here an Osho quote about dying along a haiku of Nozawa Boncho: River - One long line - through snowy fields