To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware… — 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
By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In fact everything can become a sort of meditation, because in everything there are two dimensions - just as there are in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you go into it, it is marriage that has created prostitution. And prostitution will never disappear from the world unless marriage… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My meditation techniques ARE dangerous. In fact there cannot be any meditation techniques which are not dangerous. If they are not dangerous,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just seeing the fact that this is an attachment, that attachment is a bondage - a beautiful word for bondage - that… — 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
Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence...it will be Nirvana on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The society wants you to have beautiful personalities; the society wants you to have personalities which are comfortable for the society, convenient… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ordinarily we think sex makes people loving - sex can never make people loving. In fact, it is sexuality that prevents love… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Real music will make you more and more refined. It will become more and more silent. In fact, real music will help… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Marriage is a plastic flower. Love is a real rose, but the real rose is beautiful in the morning; by the evening… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But we are not interested in death at all: rather, we escape the facts, we are continuously escaping the facts. Death is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man is less interested in marriage, very much less interested. In fact not interested at all. If he agrees, he agrees only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Celibacy can only be spontaneous, there is no other type of celibacy. If it is not spontaneous, it is not celibacy. You… — 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
