Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware you will find your life changing for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being... — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but alertness. Everything… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What I am saying is that there is no need for anybody to suffer. Just be aware, let awareness be there. Anger… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness means you come with an inner light, you move fully alert. Each step is taken in awareness - the walking, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that... And this… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness, beholding the mind, is the most essential method to have a breakthrough. And once you have gone just a step beyond… — 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
