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Mind Quotes by Rajneesh

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A mind that feels like a locked prison must die before freedom can arrive, says Rajneesh. He also notes that a mature mind accepts that the ultimate cannot be known, opening a new dimension of being. Finally, he points out that the quiet space between two thoughts shows the mind’s natural stillness.

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Mind is not your intelligence.

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Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

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Mind is memory, not intelligence.

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Mind is a broken mirror.

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Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

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You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

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The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

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Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

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Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.

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Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind.

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Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

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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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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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A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension:…

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If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind.

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The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a…

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Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence…

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The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end…

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Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

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Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never…

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During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law,…

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Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives…

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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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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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This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have…

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To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words…

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Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not…

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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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To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that,…

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Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you…

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Humanity needs a new soil - the soil of freedom. Bohemianism was a reaction, a necessary reaction, but if my vision succeeds…

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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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When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do…

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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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Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is…

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Truth is always here. That's the only way truth can be. Truth cannot be anywhere else. The only time it can be…

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To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

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Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

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Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears.

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This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

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