What happens if we lose consciousness through fear at the point of death?
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"Fear does not create unconsciousness at death; it merely reveals the vastness of our own unconscious, and without the art of witnessing, we risk missing the passage into liberation."
According to Osho, at death fear doesn’t create unconsciousness; it only strips away our thin conscious layer, and we sink into our own vast unconscious. Without the cultivated art of witnessing, we black out and miss the passage, continuing the cycle of birth and death. If witnessing has matured through meditation, awareness remains through dying, freeing one from rebirth.
If fear makes you faint when dying, you fall into your own inner sleep; if you’ve learned to calmly watch, you stay awake and don’t have to come back.
Why this matters practically
- Practice witnessing now to strengthen awareness and reduce fear.
- Dying consciously ends compulsive rebirth and suffering.
- Meeting crises with witnessing brings clarity instead of panic.
- Dying consciously ends compulsive rebirth and suffering.
- Meeting crises with witnessing brings clarity instead of panic.
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