Das Buch vom Leben und Sterben

Death is as much a part of life as birth. Yet we anxiously banish death from our thoughts. What happens around a dying person? What does acceptance mean in the context of cancer? How do I decide which advice to follow? What is the significance of reincarnation? How can one support a dying person? Can death be celebrated?

In this book, Osho answers all these questions and many more. He shows that dying offers a unique opportunity for inner growth and that death is ultimately the holiest of all mysteries. It is not an event but a process that begins with birth. Every exhalation is a small death, every inhalation a small rebirth. For those who live consciously and wholeheartedly, death is no longer a catastrophe but a joyful climax: "Those who overcome their feelings of attachment can enter the universal light and become one with it. And that is the greatest blessing, the ultimate ecstasy, beyond which there is nothing. You have returned home.".