Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present. — 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
Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
[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
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
The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don`t be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
These tenses-past, present and future-are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. That which is no longer before… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is a fixation in the human mind for structures, because in a structured life one feels secure, one knows where one… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real meditation is just allowing the mind to have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness. — 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