Osho: On the Fear of Death

Written on 04/28/2026
Poetic Outlaws

The fear of death

“The art of dying is the art of living also.”

— Osho

Most people die clinging.

They don’t want to die, and one can understand why they don’t want to die. Only at the moment of death do they recognize the fact that they have not lived. Life has simply passed as if a dream, and death has come.

Now there is no more time to live—death is knocking on the door. And when there was time to live, you were doing a thousand and one foolish things, wasting your time rather than living it…

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