During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of… — 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
The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What is fear? Why are you so afraid? Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If he loves, he wants to make a relationship out of it immediately! He wants to get married. He wants to create… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jealousy is comparison. And we have been taught to compare, we have been conditioned to compare, always compare. Somebody else has a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very… — 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
If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means a state of unconditioned mind. Meditation is the process of undoing the harm that every society goes on doing to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember, character is not of much value. What is valuable is consciousness - not conscience but consciousness. Conscience is created by the… — 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
