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
Love respects the other. It is a give-and-take relationship. Love enjoys giving, and love enjoys taking. It is a sharing, it is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Bliss follows witnessing - and that is going to be your meditation. Witness your body as separate, witness your mind as separate.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The sannyasin knows what it means to be an emperor, because he simply gives; he enjoys giving, he loves sharing. And the… — 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
Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Hence there are so many kinds of love and so many kinds of compassion. But the basic, the most fundamental, is to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Attachment brings misery, unattachment brings blissfulness. So use things, but don't be used by them. Live life but don't be lived by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But ordinarily you think otherwise: you think if you are silent you will be sad. Ordinarily you think, how can you avoid… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would like you to drop the ego, to dissolve, to disappear, because only then is there fulfillment. The ego knows only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be… — 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
God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, 'I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Bauls say, "Don't try to force anything." Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day… — 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
Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But a problem arises because whenever I use words, those words have connotations in your mind. When I say 'Celebrate', you think… — 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
You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful,… — 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
My whole effort is how to beautify this present moment, how to make people more celebrating, how to make people more joyous,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A creative act enhances the beauty of the world; it gives something to the world, it never takes anything from it. A… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is good that life never fulfils your dreams - it always goes on disposing, in a way. It gives you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So remember, my meaning of discipline is not that of any Ten Commandments...Your discipline has to come from your very heart, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Through meditation one discovers one's own light. That light you can call your soul, your self, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are sharing your joy, you don't create a prison for anybody - you simply give. You don´t even expect gratitude… — 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
