A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has… — 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… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole… — 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 word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man has to create marriage because man is afraid of the unknown. On all levels of life and existence, man has created… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you become too sceptical, you become scientists. If you become too childlike, you become religious. Science exists with doubt. Religion exists… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When two persons open up to each other just as they are, friendship grows. When two persons are ready to drop their… — 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
Jesus was not famous in his day. If there were no Bible, there would have been no record of him. The record… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The essential religion is taking the whole responsibility for whatsoever you are. And immediately an insight arises: 'If I am responsible for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what Pavlov, Skinner,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence...it will be Nirvana on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is beautiful that there are three hundred religions in the world; more are needed. ... Each person should have his own… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be happy! and meditation will follow. Be happy, and religion will follow. Happiness is a basic condition. People become religious only when… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Without Jesus they were the great priests of the temple; with Jesus suddenly they were nobodies. In the presence of Jesus there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The really creative person is not interested in dominating anybody. He is so utterly rejoicing in life - he wants to create,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A small puddle will reflect the moon in its own way and the big ocean will reflect it in its own way.… — 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
