In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your question makes it clear that you have not understood what I mean when I say, 'Don't surrender to a person, surrender… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning… — 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
To be awake and harmonious creates the possibility for ecstasy to happen. Ecstasy means the ultimate joy, inexpressible; no words are adequate… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you… — 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
Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness… — 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
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
Guilt is imposed by others on you. It is a strategy of the priests to exploit. It is a conspiracy between the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If attachment is the conditioning factor, then non-attachment will become the unconditioning factor. If expectation leads you in misery, then non-expectation will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Devotion means for the total; it is never for Rama, never for Krishna. Of course, Rama and Krishna are implied in the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It does not mean that there will be no work if we turn life into a celebration. It is not that the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That`s exactly the meaning of the word `ecstasy`:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. — 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
