Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Learn to become more of a witness, create more watchfulness. Let each act, each thought, be seen. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Watch,witness,observe your thoughts-without any judgement,without any condemnation or evaluation... — 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
The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects… — 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
When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How can one become enlightened in one single moment? One can, because one is enlightened -- one just has to recognize the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Right awareness is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all that is bad. But as… — 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
Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you… — 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
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all… — 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
Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful… — 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
First examine what is constantly there in your mind, what is being repeated again and again. You don't have many thoughts. If… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that slowly slowly more consciousness is created within you, more light is created; more watchfulness, witnessing, happens.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.… — 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
When you feel expansion of your consciousness, that is the most ecstatic experience possible, because suddenly you are the whole universe. Stars… — 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
Between two thoughts try to be alert; look into the interval, the space in between. You will see no mind; that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ordinarily all desires exist in the second state of consciousness, the dreaming state. Desire is a dream and to work for a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember this: with mind you will always be a loser. Even if you are victorious, your victories will be just defeats. With… — 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
Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are only two states of consciousness that exist - the state of the ego and the state of love. The ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer… — 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
