Accepting Death As Repose

The absolute death: being without thoughts

If consciousness becomes meditative then you accept death, then death is nothing apart, it is you. Then you accept death as repose; then you accept death as a final relaxation; then you accept death as a retirement. You retire. The whole day you have worked hard, in the evening you come home, and then you go to sleep, you retire. Life is like the day, death is like the night.

Two aspects of the same coin

Again you will come, many mornings will come, in different forms you will be here again and again and again, until the absolute death happens. That absolute death is for those who have become absolutely without thoughts. It is for those who have known absolutely that death and life are two aspects of the same coin, who are now no longer afraid of death -- have not even a slight fear -- and who are now no longer attached to life.

So there are two stages of the final disappearance. The first one is not to be afraid of death. And once you are not afraid of death the second step is not to have any deep lust for life. Then you go beyond.

Osho, excerpted from Tao: The Three Treasures Vol.2 #1

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In this Osho quote death is described as a repose, a retirement. With meditation death becomes just the other side of the coin, which is life. The real death happens in life: no thoughts and death is absolute.