Remember one thing: make every moment complete. - OSHO

Remember one thing: make every moment complete. Live every moment as if there is no other moment to come.
Then only will you complete it.

Know that death can occur at any moment. This May be the last. Feel that ”If I have to do something, I must do it here and now, COMPLETELY!”

I have heard a story about a Greek general. The king was somehow against him.

There was a court conspiracy, and it was the general’s birthday.

He was celebrating it with his friends. Suddenly, in the afternoon, the king’s manager came and he said to the general, ”Excuse me, it is hard to tell you,but the king has decided that this evening, by six o’clock, you are to be hanged.

So be ready by sixo’clock.”Friends were there; music was there. There was drinking, eating and dancing. It was his birthday.

This message changed the whole atmosphere. They became sad. But the general said, ”Now do not be sad, because this is going to be the last part of my life.

So let us complete the dance we were dancing and let us complete the feast we were having.

I have no possibility now, so we cannot make it complete in the future.

And do not send me off in this sad atmosphere, otherwise my mind will long again and again, and the stopped music and the halted festivity will become a burden on my mind.

So let us complete it. Now is no time to stop it.”Because of him, they danced, but it was difficult.

He alone danced more vigorously; he alone became more festive. But the whole group was simply not there. His wife was weeping, but he continued to dance, he continued to talk with his friends.

And he was so happy that the messenger went back to the king and he said, ”That man is rare. He has heard the message, but he is not sad.

And he has taken it in a very different way – absolutely inconceivable. He is laughing and dancing and he is festive and he says that because there moments are his last and there is no future now,he cannot waste them: he must live them.”

The king himself came to see what was happening there. Everyone was sad, weeping. Only the general was dancing, drinking, singing.

The king asked, ”What are you doing?”

The general said, ”This has been my life principle – to be aware continuously that death is possible any moment.

Because of this principle I have lived every moment as much as was possible.

But,of course, you have made it so clear today. I am grateful because until now I was only thinking that death is possible any moment.

It was just a thinking. Somewhere, lurking behind, the thought was there that it was not going to be just the next moment.

The future was there, but you dropped the future completely for me.

This evening is the last. Life now is so short, I cannot postpone it.”The king was so happy, he became a disciple to this man.

He said, ”Teach me!

This is the alchemy.

This is how life should be lived; this is the art. So I am not going to hang you, but be my teacher.

Teach me how to live in the moment.”

We are postponing. That postponing becomes an inner dialogue, an inner monologue.

Do not postpone. Live right here and now. And the more you live in the present, the less you will need this constant ”minding”, this constant thinking.

The less you will need it!
This is there because of postponing, and we go on postponing everything.

We always live in the tomorrow which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible.

That which comes is always today, and we go on sacrificing today for tomorrow which is nowhere.

Then the mind goes on thinking of the past whichyou have destroyed, which you have sacrificed for something which has not come.

And then it goes on postponing for further tomorrows. That which you have missed, you go on thinking you will catch somewhere in the future.

You are not going to catch it!

This constant tension between past and future, this constant missingof the present, is the inner noise.

Unless it stops you cannot fall into that silence which is prayer.

So The first thing: try to be total in every moment.

OshO ❤
CHAPTER 12. BREAKING THE INNER MONOLOGUE
The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol 2