You live with all these, don’t you? You live with your boredom, your fears. But you have really to find out what death means, and whether you can live with it as you would live with your wife or husband, with your children, your job, your anxiety. Or you jump to some hopeful ideal or belief and thereby avoid it. All that you have done is, being frightened of it you try to avoid it, you do not look at it. What does it mean to live with something which you don’t know? I don’t know if you have ever thought about it at all in that way probably you have not. You have to find out what it means to live with something that must be an astonishing thing, actually to see it, actually to feel it – to be aware of this thing called death and of which you are so terribly frightened. You cannot have that idea and say, ‘Tell me the method and I will practise it and I will live with death.’ That has no meaning. Not a method you cannot have a method to live with something you don’t know. So you have to find out how to live with death. You will live with your own shadow of fear and your life will end miserably as it has begun miserably. We are talking of facts, and if you reduce a fact merely into a theory, it is your own misfortune. What does death mean actually, not theoretically? We are not discussing theoretically, we are not discussing merely to formulate an idea, a concept. So fear is the origin of the separation between that fact which you call death and that fact which you call living. We ask, ‘What is the purpose of living?’ because our own lives are shallow, worthless and we think we must have an ideal to live by.

Our lives being empty we try to give significance to life, meaning to life. So to find out the whole significance of death, what it means, to see the immensity of it, not just the stupid, symbolic image of death, this fear of living and the fear of dying must completely cease, not only consciously but also deep down.

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