When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ordinarily all desires exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to work for a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Rajneeshism is creating a Noahs Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged… — 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
When you feel expansion of your consciousness, that is the most ecstatic experience possible, because suddenly you are the whole universe. Stars… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As meditation goes deep you will feel less and less desires, more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. There will be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It… — 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
According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If… — 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
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
The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious, your victories will be just defeats. With… — 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
People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing… — 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
Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an… — 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
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
It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of… — 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
Awareness means you come with an inner light, you move fully alert. Each step is taken in awareness - the walking, the… — 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
An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make… — 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
The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects… — 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
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
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
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
My approach is that we are not searching for experiences here. We are trying to know the one who experiences all experiences.… — 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
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
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 means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Everybody knows what celebration is. I have never come across a person who does not know what celebration is. Just rejoicing in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so… — 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
Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has… — 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
