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Eternity : Eternity is deathlessness.

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This word 'KALA' is very meaningful: one meaning is time, another meaning is death. The same word means time and death. It is beautiful, because time is death. The moment you enter into time, you are ready to die. With birth, death has entered into you. When the child is born, he has entered into the realm of death. The birthday is also the deathday. Now only one thing is certain: that he will have to die. Everything else is just uncertain; it may happen, it may not happen. But the moment a child is born, the moment the child has taken his first breath, one thing is absolutely certain -- that he will die.

 

Entering into life is entering into death; entering into time is entering into death. Time is death, hence the Sanskrit word KALA is very beautiful. It means both time and death. And Kali means beyond time and beyond death. Eternity is deathlessness. How to find eternity? What is the way? One has to understand the process of time.

 

The process of time is horizontal: one moment passes, then comes another moment; that passes, then another moment -- a procession of moments, a queue of moments -- one passes, then another comes; another passes, then another comes. It is horizontal.

 

Eternity is vertical: you go deep into the moment, not moving in a line, but into depth. You drown yourself in the moment. If you stand on the bank, then the river goes on passing. Ordinarily we are standing on the bank of time. The river goes on moving; one moment, another moment, and another, and the sequence of moments continues. This is how we ordinarily live, this is how we live in time.

 

Then there is another way -- take a jump into the river, drown in the moment, the here-now. Then suddenly, time stops. Then you are moving in an altogether different dimension; the vertical dimension is eternity. That is the meaning of Jesus' cross.

 

The cross is a time symbol. It is made of two lines: one vertical, one horizontal. On the horizontal line are the hands of Christ, and on the vertical line is his whole being. Hands are symbolic of action: doing, having. Having is in time; being is in eternity. So whatsoever you DO is in time, whatsoever you ARE is in eternity; whatsoever you achieve is in time, whatsoever is your nature is in eternity. Change from having, doing, towards being. This moment the turning can happen. This very moment, if you forget past and future, then time stops. Then nothing moves, then everything is absolutely silent and you start drowning in the here-now. That 'now' is eternity.

 

Kali is a symbol of now, of the eternal, of the absolutely real. To live moment to moment and not to bother about past and future is the way towards the novel man.

 

-Osho, "The Beloved, Vol 1, #5"

 

 

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Osho Dictionary

A Spiritual Dictionary for the Here and Now

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No. Category Subject
63 E Ears : You hear only what you want to hear.
62 E Earth : This is the only sacred place where life exists, where consciousness exists
61 E Eating : If you are eating, then let your whole consciousness be that of taste, of smell.
60 E Eccentricity : The greater the person is, the more crazy, more eccentric.
59 E Ecology : The outer ecology is being destroyed because the inner ecology has been destroyed.
58 E Ecology and Lao Tzu's wisdom
57 E Economics : The inner economics is totally different, just the polar opposite of the outer
56 E Ecstasy : All our misery is because we are divided.
55 E Ecstasy : Ecstasy is natural. It is not something that happens only to great sages.
54 E Education : Education Is not Meant for Teaching Discipline
53 E Education : Help them to be creative, help them to be joyous
52 E Education : Help Them to Be More Creative
51 E Education : It does not give you life, and it does not give you love.
50 E Education : Not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate.
49 E Education : What we call education is not education at all, it is just the opposite of education.
48 E Efficiency : The whole effort of the society is to reduce you to efficient mechanisms.
47 E Ego : It is a false entity. It is not.
46 E Ego : Osho on Ego
45 E Ego : The ego is the accumulated effect of others' opinions about you.
44 E Either/Or : If mind is either/or, then the heart is both/and. The heart has no logic
43 E Ejaculation/Lovemaking : Ejaculation takes place quicker when the mind is tense.
42 E Elections : You have to choose between two kinds of dodos!
41 E Embarrassment : It is the ego that is embarrassed.
40 E Emergencies : When suddenly you were more aware than you usually are
39 E Emotions : Don't start borrowing problems from people.
38 E Empathy : Sympathy and apathy are opposed to each other. Empathy is beyond both.
37 E Emptiness : Emptiness is full of freedom; everything else has been removed. It is spacious
36 E Endings : From one side it is an end, from another side it is a new beginning.
35 E Enemies : With whomsoever you are fighting, you become like him.
34 E Energy : Energy is delight.
33 E Enlightenment : Enlightenment is a process of losing; you don’t gain anything.
32 E Enlightenment : Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness.
31 E Enough : Nothing is enough to the mind.
30 E Entertainment : Entertainment is not ecstasy, entertainment is just an opium.
29 E Equality : The idea of equality is dangerous
28 E Escapism : Challenges are growth opportunities
27 E Esotericism : All esotericism is nonsense
26 E Esotericism : Esoteric teachings are only for the fools.
25 E Essence : Life is indivisible, it is an organic whole.
» E Eternity : Eternity is deathlessness.
23 E Etiquette : It is not a question of becoming more informed. It is a question of transformation, not of information.
22 E Euphemisms : You have certain ideas about certain things.
21 E Euthanasia : If he does not want to continue, nobody should prevent him.
20 E Euthanasia : Should be accepted as a birthright of every human being.
19 E Evil : That is a state of unconsciousness, unknowing, unawareness. I will not call it evil
18 E Evolution : Evolution has no purpose.
17 E Evolution : Evolution is an Eastern concept discovered by the mystics
16 E Examinations : Examinations emphasize people's memory, not their intelligence.
15 E Excitement : You cannot find any place better than your own inner being.
14 E Existence : It makes no discrimination. To the sinners, to the saints, it is the same.
13 E Existentialism : Existential Nausea, Alienation
12 E Existentialism : Meditation is the only existentialist approach. It is not intellectual
11 E Existentialism Philosophy : Life is Meaningless
10 E Expectations : Don‘t fulfill any expectations of anybody.
9 E Experience : Experience life in all possible ways
8 E Experiment : Life is a divine experiment.
7 E Experiment : One cannot experiment with truth.
6 E Experiment and Experience : Experiment means something you can do outside; experience means something you can do inside.
5 E Experimentation : Always decide something by experimentation. Never decide anything a priori.
4 E Explanations : All explanations about the mysteries of life are nothing but explaining away those things.
3 E Exploitation : Using something for the sake of my ego, then it becomes exploitation.
2 E Exploite : If you want to exploit, you will be exploited.
1 E Extramarital Relationship : Extramarital relationships help marriage, they don't destroy it.
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