Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not… — 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
The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First become a Zorba, a flower of this earth, and earn the capacity through it to become a Buddha - the flower… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Creativity has nothing to do with creating something, creativity is simply the presence of God. Those who are fortunate enough to come… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers. — 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 Image
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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 Image
