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
There are only two states of consciousness that exist - the state of the ego and the state of love. The ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To my understanding, sex is your only energy, it is life energy. What you do with it depends on you. It can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Rajneeshism is creating a Noahs Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What is meditation? It is not your character, it is not what you do. It is what you are. It is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ordinarily all desires exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to work for a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who… — 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
The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind is just like a crowd; thoughts are the individuals. And because thoughts are there continuously you think the process is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only one thing I expect from all of you: to be yourself, to discover your inner beauty, your purity of consciousness, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but alertness. Everything… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is… — 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
Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My approach is that we are not searching for experiences here. We are trying to know the one who experiences all experiences.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally… — 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
