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Life exists, when we are aware<\/p>\n

Osho : Every buddha in his past was as ignorant as you are; and everybody who is ignorant has a future. Any day suddenly, light; and in that light all the past, maybe millions of years, disappear like dreams. Buddha used to measure people\u2019s age from the time they became enlightened. He did not count the previous age.<\/p>\n

One day, a great emperor of those days, Prasenjita, was sitting by the side of Buddha asking him questions. And an old monk \u2013 he may have been seventy-five years old at least \u2013 asked Prasenjita, \u201dForgive me please. I have been waiting because I have to leave before sunset. I have to reach the other village\u201d \u2013 a buddhist monk cannot travel in the night \u2013 \u201dso I am in a hurry. I have to disturb you just for a moment, just to touch Buddha\u2019s feet and ask if there is any message. I may not be seeing him again and who knows about tomorrow?\u201d<\/p>\n

So he touched the Buddha\u2019s feet and Buddha asked, \u201dHow old are you?\u201d<\/p>\n

And the old man said, \u201dFour years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prasenjita could not believe that and could not resist the temptation either to interfere. He said, \u201dWhat? Four years? You must be at least seventy-five.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buddha said, \u201dPrasenjita, you don\u2019t know. In my commune we count only those years which he has lived as an enlightened being. Before that was just darkness and dreams, nightmares, misery, not worth counting. You are right, he is seventy-five years old according to the ordinary world, but this is not an ordinary world. He is living in an extraordinary commune. As far as I am concerned he is four years old. I was just asking him whether he remembers or not. He remembers. He knows what is real life \u2013 only four years. And the seventy-one years were just fake, they do not matter, have no meaning at all. There is no need to count them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buddha said, \u201dWith my blessings you can go because your remembrance is correct.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: “God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth” – Osho<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[113,67,125,165,166],"tags":[33,29,2],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-discourses","category-meditation","category-osho","category-stories","tag-awareness","tag-buddha","tag-osho"],"yoast_head":"\nBuddha on Awareness - Guru Quote<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Every buddha in his past was as ignorant as you are; and everybody who is ignorant has a future. 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