Dealing with aging over 70.
Growing in age is not really becoming a grown-up, because I see people eighty years old and still playing games, ugly games of power politics — even at the age of eighty-two, eighty-three, eighty-four! The sleep seems to be so deep. When are they going to awaken? When will they think of the inner world?
And death will take all that you have accumulated — your power, your money, your prestige. Nothing will be left, not even a trace. Your whole life will be nullified. Death will come and destroy all that you have made; death will come and prove that all your palaces were nothing but palaces made of playing cards.
Maturity is to know something in you which is deathless, to know something in you which will transcend death — that is meditation. Mind knows the world: meditation knows God. Mind is a way to understand the object: meditation is a way to understand the subject. Mind is a concern with the contents, and meditation is a concern with the container — the consciousness. Mind becomes obsessed with the clouds, and meditation searches for the sky. Clouds come and go: sky remains, abides.
Search for the inner sky. And if you have found it, then you will never die. The body will die, the mind will die, but you will never die.
And to know it is to know life.
OSHO
