Right awareness is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all that is bad. But as… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you don't take the lamp of awareness with you, you are going to create a hell around you. Light your lamp… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As you become more conscious of your cruelty, of your violence, gross and subtle, you start becoming more and more compassionate. Not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sexuality is possible without any understanding, without any meditation. Love is possible only with understanding. Compassion is possible only with understanding and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you are a man of prayer, existence appears as God, as personal. If you are a man of meditation, existence is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Walk, but make walking a meditation; walk knowingly Breathe, but let your breathing become a constant meditation; breathe knowingly. The breath going… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality. The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that slowly slowly more consciousness is created within you, more light is created; more watchfulness, witnessing, happens.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When this awareness grows, dreaming stops, by and by. When this awareness grows, the wheel moves slower and slower, because there is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised - a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That's why real awareness always leads you beyond sex, and celibacy happens on its own accord. Because to be in sex you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment. — Rajneesh Copy Share
The greatest mystery in life is not life itself, but death. Death is the culmination of life, the ultimate blossoming of life. In death… — Rajneesh Copy Share
This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the… — Rajneesh Copy Share
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share
Money should not be in the hands of individuals; otherwise it will create this problem of being burdened with guilt. And money can make… — Rajneesh Copy Share
Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage… — Rajneesh Copy Share
A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension… — Rajneesh Copy Share
The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in… — Rajneesh Copy Share
There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity — Rajneesh Copy Share
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring… — Rajneesh Copy Share
To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share
So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share
