All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So many religions are there because so many people are unhappy. A happy person needs no religion; a happy person needs no… — 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
Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A small puddle will reflect the moon in its own way and the big ocean will reflect it in its own way.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be light-hearted, light-footed. Be of light step. Don't carry religion like a burden. And don't expect religion to be a teaching; it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you are really spontaneous, people will think you are mad. If you go to a tree and start talking, or to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man has to create marriage because man is afraid of the unknown. On all levels of life and existence, man has created… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is… — 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
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
Sin is a technique of the pseudo-religions. A true religion has no need of the concept at all. The pseudo-religion cannot live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is beautiful that there are three hundred religions in the world; more are needed. ... Each person should have his own… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be happy! and meditation will follow. Be happy, and religion will follow. Happiness is a basic condition. People become religious only when… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Without Jesus they were the great priests of the temple; with Jesus suddenly they were nobodies. In the presence of Jesus there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence...it will be Nirvana on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you become too sceptical, you become scientists. If you become too childlike, you become religious. Science exists with doubt. Religion exists… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Real spirituality is going through fire. Real spirituality is rebellion against all that is rotten, against all that is past, against all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates… — 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
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
