Can a person choose their death if they can choose their birth?
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"To choose your birth is to embrace the limits of the body, and while the knowing can sense the end, true freedom over death remains an illusion for the ordinary."
According to Osho, one who has attained knowing can choose to be born or not, but by selecting a womb he also accepts the body’s limits, including its lifespan. Hence freedom over death is only partial: he knows when the body will end and moves with urgency within that frame. An ordinary person has no freedom about death.
An enlightened person can choose birth, but not fully choose death, because choosing a body means accepting its built‑in end.
Why this matters practically
- Reduces fear by seeing limits as consciously chosen
- Inspires urgency to live and practice now
- Shifts focus from controlling death to cultivating awareness
- Inspires urgency to live and practice now
- Shifts focus from controlling death to cultivating awareness
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