How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Nothing has to be changed, because all is beautiful - that is enlightenment. All is as it should be, everything is perfect.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don't misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against the wrong,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment happens only in that moment when there is no complaint in you,when you are not going anywhere, not desiring, not condemning,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according… — 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
In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How can one become enlightened in one single moment? One can, because one is enlightened -- one just has to recognize the… — 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
Once you know it, you move as a nonbeing. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you happy, unhappy, miserable. No!… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great intelligence. To… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen… — 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
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
Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Those who go on telling you to amend your nature and improve upon yourself are very dangerous people. They are one of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When this awareness grows, dreaming stops, by and by. When this awareness grows, the wheel moves slower and slower, because there is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment… — 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
