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
Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My message, my key, my golden key to transform your energies, is creativity. Be more and more creative, and slowly slowly you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In samadhi, in the highest form of meditation, the same thing happens: the mind stops functioning... but you are conscious. That is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the sunset. That is the moment when you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Truth is always here. That's the only way truth can be. Truth cannot be anywhere else. The only time it can be… — 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
Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have… — 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
All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind is a crowd of many desires; it is not a single desire. Mind is multi-psychic, and all the fragments are falling… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless you come out of your mind and become a no-mind you will not know what life is all about, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man must learn to live without ideologies religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
'Freedom' means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you merge with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Between two thoughts try to be alert; look into the interval, the space in between. You will see no mind; that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Wherever you go, your mind will go with you. Your knowledge will go with you, your prejudices will go with you, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious, your victories will be just defeats. With… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means a state of unconditioned mind. Meditation is the process of undoing the harm that every society goes on doing to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is a state of no-mind! You can not find meditation through the mind .. because mind will perpetuate itself! You can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same.… — 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
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
