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
Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Walk, but make walking a meditation; walk knowingly Breathe, but let your breathing become a constant meditation; breathe knowingly. The breath going… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him… — 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
Remember remain alert that you don't get too much attached to the accidental - and all is accidental except your consciousness. Except… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To remain attached to the temporal, to the changing is to remain within the world of misery because the temporal will be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Right awareness is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all that is bad. But as… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the… — 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
There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you don't take the lamp of awareness with you, you are going to create a hell around you. Light your lamp… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are… — 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
Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are in deep meditation you don't feel meditation, you feel bliss. When you are deep in meditation, when you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One of the names of Buddha is TATHAGATA - one who lives in suchness, one who has become free from all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What I am saying is that there is no need for anybody to suffer. Just be aware, let awareness be there. Anger… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness,… — 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
One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few… — 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
That's why real awareness always leads you beyond sex, and celibacy happens on its own accord. Because to be in sex you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The technique of positive thinking is not a technique that transforms you. It is simply repressing the negative aspects of your personality.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let… — 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
