The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality...… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A small child has no ambitions, he has no desires. He is so absorbed in the moment - a bird on the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every child is born with tremendous love for himself. It is the society that destroys that love, it is the religion that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never.… — 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 are really feeling happy, you are feeling happy even if the whole world contradicts you. If the whole world agrees… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Parents create guilt. That is the greatest sin against humanity. To create guilt in a child is criminal because once the guilt… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When Patanjali says "non-attachment", he is not anti-love. Really, he is for love. Non-attachment means be natural, loving, flowing, but don't get… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In countries where breast-feeding has stopped, more smoking will automatically be there. That's why the West smokes more than the East -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that… — 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
