Simple Life - Simple Death
A little dance
a little love
a little playfulness...
Immobile haze.
Moon, spring, sleep.
Kyorai
Kyorai is saying this is what life is: "Immobile haze. Moon, spring, sleep" -- simple, no complication.
A meditator lives a life of such simplicity: the moon, the spring, the sleep -- and he is fulfilled. A little immobile haze, and then arises the moon, then comes the spring -- there are flowers -- and then the sleep.
Life - just a small drama
If you can conceive life in such simple terms -- a little dance, a little love, a little playfulness, a little laughter, a little music, and then comes the eternal sleep, life becomes just a small drama. Soon the drama will be over. Accept that the drama will be over, that we are just players in a game which is not going to last forever. We will have to vacate the place for other players.
Life becomes very simple, without any complexity and without any competition. One lives silently, peacefully, and prepares himself for the eternal peace, the eternal silence, the eternal sleep.
Osho, excerpted from The Zen Manifesto: Freedom from Oneself #6
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In this Osho quote about death Osho is commenting on a poem of Kyorai. The essence is to live life simply, then death will be simple too. The moon, the spring, the sleep. A little dance, a little love, a little playfulness - that's it!
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