Meditation Quotes by Rajneesh

Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.

— Rajneesh

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

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Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

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My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

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Meditation is enough. Everything else follows on its own.

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Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

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Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

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Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.

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And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

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Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

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Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

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You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness.

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Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

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To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but…

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Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

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To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.

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Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole…

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Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately…

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Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is…

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The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way…

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Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past…

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I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of…

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Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all…

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For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is…

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To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of…

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The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death. All these…

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That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love,…

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Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.…

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Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle…

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In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have…

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Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an…

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The more meditation goes deep, the more you will become master of your own thoughts. You will say, "Stop!" and the mind…

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The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it…

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Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread…

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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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The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at…

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Buddha has said to his disciples: Whenever you meditate, after each meditation, surrender all that you have earned out of meditation, surrender…

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One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely…

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Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself,…

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Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know…

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