Immortality
The secret of immortality is not such a secret that it cannot be discovered. In fact it is an open secret: Just a little bit of digging inside yourself and you can discover it. Just a few layers of garbage have to be removed; we call that garbage the mind. Thoughts and desires and memories are crowding inside, and because of the crowd we cannot see our own truth.
Once we are able to create a little gap, a little space, the truth is discovered. The truth is that we are immortal. The truth is that we were never born and we will never die. That birth and death are episodes in our eternal life. Thousands of times we have taken birth, and thousands of times we have left the body. It is because of this mind that we go on coming back again and again. It is because of the mind that the wheel of birth and death goes on moving.
If we drop out of the mind the wheel stops. And that’s the whole art of meditation: how to drop out of this mind and how to enter the space called no- mind.
-Osho, "Eighty Four Thousand Poems, #28“