All that politics... Ans the train comes and you are gone forever

THE DEAD, PALE LEAF FALLING FROM THE TREE is the sermon -- sermon about the whole life, sermon about death. The morning dewdrops disappearing, evaporating in the sun -- a sermon on life! That's how life disappears. Don't be too much attached to it. Don't become possessive about it. It is going to happen to you too -- you are not more than dew-drops on grass leaves.

Have you seen a dewdrop slipping out of a grass leaf... going, going, going, and gone? Mahavir has used exactly that metaphor. THAT'S WHAT LIFE IS: a dewdrop on a grass leaf, slipping slowly slowly slowly slowly.

ONE MOMENT IT WAS THERE, ANOTHER MOMENT IT IS GONE. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And for this simple moment, how much fuss we make -- how much violence, ambition, struggle, conflict, anger, hatred.

Just for this small moment! Just waiting for the train in a waiting room on a station, and creating so much fuss: fighting, hurting each other, trying to possess, trying to boss, trying to dominate -- ALL THAT POLITICS. And then the train comes and you are gone forever.

AND YOU WILL NEVER BE HEARD OF AGAIN, AND NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN. And you will never see those people you were fighting with, and you will never see the woman you tried to possess, and you will never see the man you nagged to death.

OSHO
Take it Easy
Vol. 1, Ch #13: Daruma, the cat and the ladle
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