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
God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People are not afraid of death, they are afraid of losing their separation, they are afraid of losing their ego. Once you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So remember, if marriage arises out of intimacy then it is beautiful. That means that everybody should have lived together before they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled - and they are never going… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The man and the woman are not really two separate entities, but the personality of the man needs the supporting qualities of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You cannot force things to happen before their time. The Spring Will come and the flowers will blossom, but you cannot force… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How not to choose is the whole art of religion, how to drop into a choicelessness. But remember, don't choose choicelessness! Otherwise,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Brahmacharya is not against sex. If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You simply pour, it will come. And if it is not coming, nothing to be worried about - because a lover knows… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? - because to relate… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The body is there because the mind seeks desires through the body; desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. You can be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science… — 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
In samadhi, in the highest form of meditation, the same thing happens: the mind stops functioning... but you are conscious. That is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline.… — 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
Up to now, men and women have not been living in relationship - because woman has never been thought equal. And relationship… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What is meditation? It is not your character, it is not what you do. It is what you are. It is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you have really experienced the inner light, sex will disappear. Love will happen to you, but sex will disappear; sexuality will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You… — 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
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
That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Use the head, use the heart, and if you can use both a tremendous revolution will happen. If you can use both… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whatsoever you are waiting for, you are waiting in vain. It is not going to happen, and what is going to happen… — 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
Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In every bed you will find four persons sleeping together. It is very rare to find a double bed, because then four… — 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