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
Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness… — 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
For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within,… — 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
Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light,… — 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
A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness. — 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
Many times people ask me, "What is sin and what is virtue? And how to decide?" If you decide your decision will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that slowly slowly more consciousness is created within you, more light is created; more watchfulness, witnessing, happens.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That`s exactly the meaning of the word `ecstasy`:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you… — 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
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
