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“You might know that certain things lead to dispassion, not passion; to unyoking, not to yoking; to dispersal, not accumulation; to fewer desires, not more; to contentment, not lack of contentment; to seclusion, not crowding; to energy, not laziness; to being unburdensome, not being burdensome. Categorically, you should remember these things as the teaching, the training, and the Teacher’s instructions.” (AN8.53)

Appearances come and go. Even the blue or white light!
What is left when appearances cease or stop?

Nibbana is the unmanifest, unborn, deathless, unconditioned, the island that you cannot go beyond.

There is, monks, an unborn[1] — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated. If there were not that unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, there would not be the case that escape from the born — become — made — fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, escape from the born — become — made — fabricated is discerned.[2]

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.8.03.than.html

The Blessed One said, "Mindfulness of death, when developed & pursued, is of great fruit & great benefit. It gains a footing in the Deathless, has the Deathless as its final end. Therefore you should develop mindfulness of death."

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an06/an06.019.than.html

@person said:
When you have bills to pay, children/parents to take care of not doing anything isn't very wise or ethical.

Papaji meant just to Be Quiet while in Satsang, he didn’t believe in any kind of meditation or spiritual practice or sadhana. He was an eminently practical man who even still played cricket in his later years, besides being a respected guru.

Osho had very different views on this, he tried to build a worldwide movement and even a commune where people could come and live. That story was told to a certain extent in the Netflix docu series Wild, Wild Country which was part of the events of my childhood. But eventually afterwards he realised it was difficult to provide the full range of services.

For example it was a fact that if you got seriously ill in the Osho commune you were more or less on your own to arrange specialist healthcare in a hospital outside the commune. So it was not as carefree as you might at first have thought. That’s one of the reasons why Osho switched from looking into communes towards providing a meditation resort, where you might visit for a few weeks or a month every year, while working in the world outside the rest of the year.