All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A man of wisdom has no will, just as he has no… — 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
Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing. This small word witnessing contains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Buddhas can take you to the boundary line of meditation and samadhi. That is the only difference between meditation and samadhi. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically… — 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
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
It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything.… — 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
There is an intrinsic law: thoughts don't have their own life. They are parasites; they live on your identifying with them. When… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work - all these small activities make up your living.… — 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
Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you become capable of relaxing the body voluntarily, then you will be able to help your mind relax voluntarily. Mind is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again,… — 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 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
Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel happiness it is always from the inner. Then mind immediately jumps in and takes control and says, 'It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the… — 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
