[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember, meditation cannot be result-oriented; you simply meditate, that's all. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are… — 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
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
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
Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Objects must cease, mind must become just a pure mirror - a mirroring, not mirroring anything - just a mirror without any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on,… — 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
Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle… — 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
To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a festival. You eat, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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