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
Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you become capable of relaxing the body voluntarily, then you will be able to help your mind relax voluntarily. Mind is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work - all these small activities make up your living.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do,… — 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
There is an intrinsic law: thoughts don't have their own life. They are parasites; they live on your identifying with them. When… — 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
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
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
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
One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely… — 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
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Heaven and hell are not very distant, they are neighbors; only a small fence divides them. You can jump that fence, even… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is.… — 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
The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel happiness it is always from the inner. Then mind immediately jumps in and takes control and says, 'It is… — 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
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
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
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
I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The body is there because the mind seeks desires through the body; desires cannot be fulfilled without the body. You can be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But a problem arises because whenever I use words, those words have connotations in your mind. When I say 'Celebrate', you think… — 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
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
Just understand, don't choose - don't choose even choicelessness. Simply understand the whole situation: that whatsoever you choose, whatsoever you do, will… — 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… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences,… — 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
