想阅读上文请看：恐惧死亡的人无法与人相爱，他会进入婚姻但永远不会进入爱，他会爱物质！没爱过的人静心是非常非常难
只需想想寒冷冬天里的一条河流，当冰山开始显现的时候，一部分水已经开始凝结了。天气越来越冷，温度降到零下，整条河都会结冰。现在没有流动，没有运动。意识就是一条河，一个溪流——思想越多，河流越冰冻。如果有很多思想，很多的思想障碍，就不会有任何流动的可能性，河流会彻底被冰封，你已经死了。
但如果河流完全地流动，如果你的冰山融解，如果你融化了所有的冰，所有的思想......那就是静心的全部：一种解冻所有思想的努力。它们可以再次被转化为意识，那时河流就会流动，河流就会有流动，活力四射，生机勃勃，跳着舞向海洋流去。海洋意味着死亡。河流会消失，永远地消失，它会与无限融为一体，再也不是一个个体。它将不再拥有自己的名字：恒河不再是恒河，伏尔加不再是伏尔加。它们消失进入没有标记的海洋。
如果头脑害怕，它就会变成思想的旋涡。如果你是一个过度思考的人，从早到晚，再从晚到早持续不断地思考，白天，思考思考思考，晚上，做梦做梦做梦——你的河流封冻了。那也是恐惧的一部分：你的河流被冰封的如此紧密，以至于你无法移动，海洋一直非常遥远。如果你移动，终将进入海洋。
静心就是将你解冻的努力。思想渐渐地融解，就像雪花一样，再次流动，头脑变成一条小溪。现在什么也阻挡不了它，它毫无阻碍地流向大海。
如果意识变成静心，那么你就接受了死亡，那么死亡就不是什么分开的东西，它就是你。你接受死亡就是休息，死亡是最终的放松，是一个小憩。你累了，一整天都在努力工作，晚上回到家进入梦乡，你休息了。生命就像是白天，死亡就像是夜晚。
但是恐惧、焦虑，一种时间神经症——正在逐渐衍变成慢性病。那几乎就像是第二天性，时刻警觉着时间的流逝并因此而恐惧。那个基本的恐惧就是“我还没有活过，时间就过去了。它没办法重溯，我无法唤回它，一旦失去了就永远地失去了。每一天生命都在萎缩，变得越来越小，越来越小。”
恐惧不是来自于死亡，而是来自于时间。如果你深入地去观察你会发现，恐惧来自于那个未被活过的生命——你还没有活过。如果你在活，就没有恐惧。如果生命被圆满就没有恐惧，如果你享受过，抵达过生命的一座座高峰——如果你的生命有过高光时刻，深邃的诗歌在你心里震荡，一首歌曲，一场盛宴，一个典礼，每一个时刻你都全然地活过——那么就没有对时间的恐惧，恐惧消失了。
就算死亡今天到来，你也准备好了，是的，你准备好了：你已了知生命。事实上，你会欢迎死亡，因为现在一个新的机会打开了。一扇新的门，一个新的奥秘被揭示了。“我活过了生命，现在死亡在敲门，我会跳起来去开门。请进！——因为生命我已经知晓，我也想知道你。”
那就是当死亡来临前发生在苏格拉底身上的事。他的弟子们开始哭——这是自然的。苏格拉底睁开眼睛说，“停！你们在干什么？为什么要哭哭啼啼？我活过了我的生命，我全然地活过它。现在死亡正在到来，我非常非常兴奋。我带着无比的爱和渴望等待着它，一扇新的门打开了，生命揭开了一个新的奥秘。”
有人问，“你不怕吗？”
苏格拉底说，“我看不出害怕死亡有什么意义......因为首先，我不知道将要发生什么。其次，只有两种可能：要么我活着——那么就没有恐惧的问题——或者我不再活着，那么也没有恐惧的问题。如果我不再活着就没有任何问题——当我不存在，就不会有任何问题——如果我像现在一样活着，我的意识继续存活，也没有问题，因为我还存在。生命中也有问题，我已经解决了。所以如果我在那里也有问题，我还会解决的。”
每当解决一个问题总是喜悦的，它给予你挑战的机会。你接受挑战进入它，当你解决了它，一个巨大的快感就会出现。
对死亡的恐惧就是对时间的恐惧，对时间的恐惧于内在深处而言，就是对未被活过的时刻的恐惧，对未被活过的生命的恐惧。
所以怎么办呢？
更多地活，更强烈地活，危险地活，那是你的生命。不要以任何别人教导的愚蠢的理由牺牲它。那是你的生命，活出它！不要为任何口号、任何理论或政治牺牲它，不要为任何人牺牲它，活出它！不要以为敢死就是勇气。
唯一的勇气是全然地活出生命，没有其它的勇气。
死是非常简单也非常容易的。跳崖，上吊——多么容易的一件事。你可以成为一个国家、神、宗教、教会的殉道者......全都是刽子手，杀人犯！
不要牺牲你自己。你在这里是为了你自己而不是其他任何人。
去活，在完全的自由里热烈地活，将每一个时刻都转化成永恒。如果你强烈地活过一个片刻，它就被转化成了永恒。如果你强烈地活过一个片刻，你就进入了垂直的维度，超越了水平的向度。
有两种与时间关联的方式：一种只是在海洋的表面游泳；另一种是潜入深处，探索深度。
如果你只是在时间之海的表面上游泳，你会永远恐惧，因为表面并非实相。表面并非真正的海洋，它只是边界，只是表面的一层。进入深处，去探索深度。当你深深地活过一个片刻，你就不再是时间的一部分。
如果你爱过，深深地爱过，时间会消失。当你与至爱或好友同在，突然间那里没有时间。你进入了深处。如果你热爱音乐，如果你有一颗音乐之心，你会知道时间停止的时刻。如果你拥有对美的感受力，对美的敏感度——看着一朵玫瑰，时间消失了。赏月时，时间在哪里？时钟会立刻停止。双手继续移动，但时间停止了。无论你深爱过什么你都会知道，你超越了时间。秘密已经向你揭露很多次了，生命在向你展露它自己。
生命希望你去享受，生命想要你去庆祝。生命想要你深刻地参与，这样就没有对过去的悔悟。你不会想起过去，因为每一个片刻你都进入越来越深。每一个片刻生命都变得越来越美，渐渐进入高潮，成为一个高峰经验。渐渐地，当你与高峰同频，那里就变成你的家。
一个觉醒之人就是这样生活的，他一个片刻接着一个片刻全然地活过。有人问一位禅师，“觉醒之后你做什么？”他说，“打水，砍柴。饿了就吃，困了就睡——就这些。”
但是要记好，当一个人对自己的存在有着深深的了解，他砍柴就只是砍柴，没有别的。事实上，砍柴者是不存在的，只有砍柴、劈柴这些动作在进行。砍柴者是过去。当他吃的时候就只是吃。
另一位伟大的禅师说，“坐着的时候就坐着，走路的时候就走路。最重要的是，不要三心二意。”
时间就是问题，因为你没有正确地活过。这是一个象征，一个征兆。如果正确地活过，时间的问题会消失，对时间的恐惧会消失。所以，怎么办呢？
每一个片刻，无论你做什么都全然地去做。简单的事：沐浴，全然地去做，忘掉整个世界！坐着就坐，走路就走，总之不要三心二意。站在花洒下面，让整个存在洒落在你身上。与洒落在你身上的美丽的水滴融为一体。很小的事：打扫屋子，准备食物，洗衣服或晨间散步，全然去做。那么就不需要任何静心。
静心并非其它，无非就是学习怎样全然去做一件事的方法。
一旦你学会了，将你的整个生命变成静心，忘掉所有的静心方法：让生命成为唯一的法则，让生命成为唯一的静心，那么时间消失了。记住，当时间消失，死亡也消失了，那么你就不再恐惧死亡。事实上，你会期待它。
只需想想这个现象：当你期待死亡，死亡如何存在？
这样的期待不是自杀，这样的期待不是病态的，你活过了你的生命。当你活过了你的生命，死亡会变成你全部生命的最高峰。死亡是生命的最高峰值，是生命的巅峰，最高潮。
你活过所有的小波浪，吃、喝、睡、走路、做爱——小风小浪和大风大浪。然后来到最大的波浪——死亡。你必须也全然地活过它，然后一个人就会准备好面对死亡。最好的准备就是死亡本身的死亡。
这样人们就会知道，没有什么会死。如果你准备活出死亡，死亡对你是无能为力的；如果你恐惧，死亡就非常强而有力。
未被活过的生命给予死亡力量，一个全然活过的生命会拿走死亡的全部力量。死亡不存在。
Just think of a river in cold winter. When icebergs start appearing certain parts of the water are now frozen. Then more cold comes, the temperature falls below zero and the whole river is frozen. Now there is no movement, no flow. Consciousness is a river, a stream--with more thoughts, the stream is frozen. If there are so many thoughts, so many‘thought-hindrances’, there is no possibility of any flow. Then the river is completely frozen. You are already dead.
But if the river is completely flowing, if you melt down the icebergs, if you melt down all that has frozen, all the thoughts... That is what meditation is all about: it is an effort to defreeze all thoughts. They can be converted again into consciousness. Then the river flows, then the river has a flow to it, and alive, vibrant, dancing, it moves toward the sea. Why do people like to be frozen? Because a frozen river cannot move to the sea. Sea means death. The river will disappear, disappear for ever, it will become one with the infinite, it will not be any longer an individual. It will not have its own name: the Ganges will not be Ganges then, the Volga will not be Volga. They disappear into the uncharted.
If the mind is afraid, it becomes a whirlwind of thoughts. If you are too much of a thinking man, continuously thinking from morning to evening, from evening to morning, in the day, thoughts and thoughts and thoughts, in the night, dreams and dreams and dreams--your river is frozen. That too is part of fear: your river is so frozen that you cannot move, so the ocean remains far away. If you move, you will fall into the ocean.
Meditation is an effort to defreeze you. Thoughts by and by melt like snow, become flowing again, and mind becomes a stream. Now nothing hinders it, it moves unhindered towards the sea.
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.
But fear, anxiety, a time neurosis--it is becoming chronic. It is almost as if it has become second nature to be continuously alert that time is passing and to be afraid. The fear is basically that“I have not yet been able to live and time is moving. It cannot be recovered; I cannot undo it; once gone it is gone forever. And every day life is shrinking, becoming smaller and smaller and smaller.”
The fear is not of death, the fear is of time, and if you look deeply into it then you find that the fear is of an unlived life--you have not been able to live. If you live, then there is no fear. If life comes to a fulfillment there is no fear. If you have enjoyed, attained the peaks that life can give--if your life has been an orgasmic experience, a deep poetry vibrating within you, a song, a festival, a ceremony, and you lived each moment of it to its totality--then there is no fear of time. Then the fear disappears.
You are ready even if death comes today, you are ready: you have known life. In fact you will welcome death because now a new opportunity opens. A new door, a new mystery is revealed.“I have lived life. Now death is knocking at the door, I will jump to open the door. Come in!--because life I have known, I would like to know you also.”
That’s what happened to Socrates when he was dying. His disciples started crying and weeping--and it was natural. Socrates opened his eyes and said,“Stop! What are you doing? Why are you crying and weeping? I have lived my life and I have lived it totally. Now death is coming and I’m very very enthusiastic about it. I am waiting with such great love and longing and with hope. A new door opens, life reveals a new mystery.”
Somebody asked,“Are you not afraid?”
Socrates said,“I don’t see the point of why one should be afraid of death... because in the first place I don’t know what is going to be. Secondly, there are only two possibilities: either I will survive--then there is no problem of having any fear --or I will not survive. Then too there is no problem of having any fear. If I don’t survive there is no problem--when I am not, there cannot be any problem-- and if I survive as I am here, if my consciousness survives, there is no problem because I am still there. Problems were there in life also; I solved them. So if I am there and there are problems I will solve them.”
It is always a joy to solve a problem; it gives a challenge. You take the challenge, you move into it, and when you solve it a great release of happiness happens.
The fear of death is fear of time. And the fear of time is, deeply down, fear of unlived moments, of an unlived life.
So what to do?
Live more, and live more intensely. Live dangerously. It is your life. Don’t sacrifice it for any sort of foolishness that has been taught to you. It is your life: Live it! Don’t sacrifice it for words, theories, countries or politics. Don’t sacrifice it for anybody. Live it! Don’t think that it is courageous to die.
The only courage is to live life totally; there is no other courage.
Dying is very simple and easy. You can go and jump off a cliff, you can hang yourself --it is such an easy thing. You can become a martyr to a country, to a god, to a religion, to a church... All butchers! All murderers!
Don’t sacrifice yourself. You are here for yourself and for nobody else.
Then live. And live in total freedom so intensely that every moment is transformed into eternity. If you live a moment intensely it is transformed into eternity. If you live a moment intensely you move into the vertical, you drop out of the horizontal.
There are two ways of being related with time: one is just to swim on the surface of the ocean; the other is to dive deep, to go to the depths.
If you are just swimming on the ocean of time you will always be afraid because the surface is not the reality. The surface is not really the ocean, it is just the boundary, it is just the periphery. Go to the depth, move towards the depth. When you live a moment deeply you are no longer part of time.
If you have been in love, deeply in love, time disappears. When you are with your beloved or your lover or your friend suddenly there is no time. You are moving in depth. If you have loved music, if you have a musical heart, you know time stops. If you have a sense of beauty, aesthetic sensibility and sensitiveness--look at a rose and time disappears. Look at the moon and where is time? The clock immediately stops. The hands go on moving but time stops. If you have loved anything deeply you know that you transcend time. The secret has been revealed to you many times. Life itself reveals it to you.
Life would like you to enjoy.Life would like you to celebrate. Life would like you to participate so deeply that there is no repentance for the past, that you don’t remember the past because every moment you go more and more deep. Every moment life becomes more and more beautiful, more orgasmic, a peak experience. By and by, when you become attuned to the peak, that becomes your abode.
That’s how an enlightened man lives, he lives totally and moment to moment. Somebody asked a Zen master,“Since enlightenment what have you been doing?”He said,“I carry water from the well, I cut wood in the forest, when I feel hungry I eat, and when I feel sleepy I sleep--that’s all.”
But remember well, when a man who has come to a deep understanding of his own being cuts wood, he simply cuts wood; there is nobody else there. In fact the cutter is not there; only the cutting of the wood, the chopping. The chopper is not there because the chopper is the past. When he eats he simply eats.
Another great Zen master has said,“When sitting, sit; when walking, walk. Above all, don’t wobble.”
Time is a problem because you have not been living rightly. It is symbolic, it is symptomatic. If you live rightly the problem of time disappears; the fear of time disappears. So, what to do?
Each moment, whatsoever you are doing, do it totally. Simple things: taking a bath, take it totally. Forget the whole world! Sitting, sit; walking, walk. Above all don’t wobble. Sit under the shower and let the whole existence fall on you. Be merged with those beautiful drops of water falling on you. Small things: cleaning the house, preparing food, washing clothes or going for a morning walk, do them totally. Then there is no need for any meditation.
Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally.
Once you have learnt, made your whole life a meditation, forget all about meditations: let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. Then time disappears, and remember when time disappears, death disappears. Then you are not afraid of death. In fact you wait for it.
Just think of the phenomenon: when you wait for death how can death exist?
This waiting is not suicidal, this waiting is not pathological. You lived your life. If you have lived your life death becomes the very peak of it all. Death is the climax of life, the pinnacle, the crescendo.
You lived all the small waves of eating, drinking, sleeping, walking and making love --small waves and great waves you lived. Then comes the greatest wave: you die. You have to live that too in its totality. Then one is ready to die. That very readiness is the death of death itself.
That’s how people have come to know that nothing dies. Death is impotent if you are ready to live it; death is very powerful if you are afraid.
Unlived life gives power to death. A totally lived life takes all power from death. Death is not.
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