Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist . — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
An enlightened person is the richest person possible, but his richness comes from surrender, not from fight. He does not... he has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only when all your desires disappear does that energy become compassion, KARUNA. You cannot cultivate compassion. When you are desireless, compassion happens;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it… — 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
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
To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love with eyes knows when to say no, when to say yes. Love neither interferes in anybody's life nor allows anybody else… — 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
It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Blessed are those who have known meditation. Only those few people are the blessed people; others are simply groping in darkness. Meditation… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Compassion goes on giving, but knows no feeling of giving, knows no feeling that "I am the giver." And then existence goes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Celebration is not because some desire is fulfilled - because no desire is ever fulfilled. Desire as such cannot be fulfilled. Desire… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below… — 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
