Enlightenment Quotes by Rajneesh

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

— Rajneesh

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but…

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Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.

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Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.

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How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

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Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

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Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

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God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.

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This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of…

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The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a…

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The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot…

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Enlightenment happens only in that moment when there is no complaint in you,when you are not going anywhere, not desiring, not condemning,…

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Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don't misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against the wrong,…

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Nothing has to be changed, because all is beautiful - that is enlightenment. All is as it should be, everything is perfect.…

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That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human…

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Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it…

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The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of…

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Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a…

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When this awareness grows, dreaming stops, by and by. When this awareness grows, the wheel moves slower and slower, because there is…

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Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor…

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In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter…

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How can one become enlightened in one single moment? One can, because one is enlightened -- one just has to recognize the…

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A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down…

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Once you know it, you move as a nonbeing. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you happy, unhappy, miserable. No!…

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Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically…

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Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path

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Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.

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Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

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Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You…

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The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He…

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Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you…

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Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen…

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You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains…

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A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according…

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One of the names of Buddha is TATHAGATA - one who lives in suchness, one who has become free from all the…

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Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when…

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Those who go on telling you to amend your nature and improve upon yourself are very dangerous people. They are one of…

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Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must…

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Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I…

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Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing.…

— Rajneesh