Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I use the words 'inner journey', I simply mean that you have looked at one aspect of the journey in your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Jesus says God is love. I would like to change it. I would like to say love is God. When you say… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation has to spread all over your life. Whatsoever you do, do meditatively. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively. If you are making love,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is not interested… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with. It is something that is like breathing, like blood circulating.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of transforming madness into Buddhahood. Meditation is the art of taking you beyond logic and yet keeping your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My sannyasins have to be creators, not through the mind but through meditation. And it comes of its own accord, one need… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means how to be not a mind. How to be not a mind! Meditation means how to create the state of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It needs great art, learning to play with one's own life, to play on one's own life. Meditation is the art to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you meditate, meditation is so beautiful, who bothers about the result? And if you bother about the result, meditation is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned, you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not your doing. You simply make the effort, but it is not your doing. Your effort is needed to prepare… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is a difference. You watch television, you don't witness it. But, while watching television, if you start witnessing yourself watching television,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation for me is not a children's play, it is a deep transformation. How to know this transformation? It is being reflected… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are qualities which grow as meditation deepens. For example, you start feeling loving for no reason at all. Not the love… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means a state of unconditioned mind. Meditation is the process of undoing the harm that every society goes on doing to… — 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
Real music will make you more and more refined. It will become more and more silent. In fact, real music will help… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness — becomes more sensitive… — 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
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
