The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you are in… — 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
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
Our mind is a machine, it is not a mystery. And the mind always wants to know the how, the why. And… — 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
In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Witness the witness itself - and... the ultimate ecstasy is created. Start watching your thoughts but don't stop there... One more thing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you have really experienced the inner light, sex will disappear. Love will happen to you, but sex will disappear; sexuality will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is what meditation means: how to be not identified with the mind - how to create a space between yourself and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Compassion goes on giving, but knows no feeling of giving, knows no feeling that "I am the giver." And then existence goes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that,… — 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
Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law,… — 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
Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives… — 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… — 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
The more meditation goes deep, the more you will become master of your own thoughts. You will say, "Stop!" and the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One of the names of Buddha is TATHAGATA - one who lives in suchness, one who has become free from all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you… — 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
Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind.… — 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
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
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
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise,… — 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
The mind is just like a crowd; thoughts are the individuals. And because thoughts are there continuously you think the process is… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment. — Rajneesh Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity — Rajneesh Copy Share
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
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
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
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