Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind;don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Each moment brings new surprises to the one who has no expectations, who comes with an absolutely open mind. Then incredible things… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our mind is a machine, it is not a mystery. And the mind always wants to know the how, the why. And… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Bliss follows witnessing - and that is going to be your meditation. Witness your body as separate, witness your mind as separate.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Witness the witness itself - and... the ultimate ecstasy is created. Start watching your thoughts but don't stop there... One more thing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by… — 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
Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any… — 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
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
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
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
In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on,… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a… — 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
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
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
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
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