Rajneesh

And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? - because to relate…

— Rajneesh

Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious, your victories will be just defeats. With…

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My whole effort is how to beautify this present moment, how to make people more celebrating, how to make people more joyous,…

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You know your inside, and you know the others' outside: that creates jealousy. They know your outside, and they know their inside:…

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Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can…

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There are qualities which grow as meditation deepens. For example, you start feeling loving for no reason at all. Not the love…

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Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have…

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People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that…

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I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don't…

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It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because…

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My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta -…

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In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no…

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When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer…

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These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in cases when…

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Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature of life,…

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So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly…

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You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you…

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The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is not interested…

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I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can…

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Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an…

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Whenever commandments are given they create difficulties for people, because by the time they are given they are already out of date.…

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Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before…

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Whenever you are in anger, remember yourself. In that very remembering the focus changes, the gestalt changes. You become more and more…

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A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware…

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No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a…

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But we are not interested in death at all: rather, we escape the facts, we are continuously escaping the facts. Death is…

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The whole existence is surrounded by a divine energy that protects you, cares for you, is always available. If you go on…

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Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness.…

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Love and ego cannot go together. Knowledge and ego go together perfectly well, but love and ego cannot go together, not at…

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You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all…

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Be a giver. Share whatsoever you can. And remember, I am not making any distinction between. small things and great things. If…

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Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage…

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Heaven and hell are not geographical. If you go in search of them you will never find them anywhere. They are within…

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Another significant point to remember: if you witness anything - fear, anger, hate - they will disappear, leaving a tremendous amount of…

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If somebody murders somewhere, I have a part in it. Even if I am a sleeper - I was sleeping, I don´t…

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Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a…

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Remember one thing: the one who brings unhappiness to others in the end becomes unhappy himself, and the one who brings happiness…

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Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it,…

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Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it…

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Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has…

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