Awareness Quotes by Rajneesh

Truth is pure awareness.

— Rajneesh

Whatsoever you are doing...be double-arrowed.

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To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

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When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.

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Walk, with awareness. Eat, with awareness. Breathe, with awareness.

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Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes.

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Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

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Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness…

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The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your…

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Awareness means you come with an inner light, you move fully alert. Each step is taken in awareness - the walking, the…

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Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home.

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The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present…

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Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out…

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Meditation cannot be purchased and no one can give it to you. You have to achieve it. It is not something outer,…

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Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being...

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Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation,…

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When you are in deep meditation you don't feel meditation, you feel bliss. When you are deep in meditation, when you are…

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I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is…

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One of the names of Buddha is TATHAGATA - one who lives in suchness, one who has become free from all the…

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Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof;…

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Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing…

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It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the…

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If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there,…

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To remain attached to the temporal, to the changing is to remain within the world of misery because the temporal will be…

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Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you…

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Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except…

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Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out…

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A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down…

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Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any…

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Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert…

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I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more…

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Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

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So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man.

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Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness. It is…

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"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device,…

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There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of…

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Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in…

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The innermost core is witnessing, awareness, watchfulness. You can call it anything, but it will be another meaning of witnessing. Truth is…

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Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware you will find your life changing for…

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If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being…

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