Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your… — 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
If you can love death you become deathless; if you can understand non-being then your being becomes the very ground of being-hood,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your ego may be just a soap bubble. Maybe for a few seconds it will remain, rising higher in the air. Perhaps… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who… — 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
Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Then ego goes on growing, because the society needs you as an ego, not as a Self. The Self is irrelevant for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The first awareness of the child comes with his ego. He becomes aware of the "I", not of the Self. Really, he… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you accept your life - when you take your breakfast, and when you sleep and when you walk and when you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is created by the rift. When you are fighting, the ego comes in; when you are not fighting, the ego… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is something basic to be understood - the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Die - you will have to die. But die gracefully. I am not saying die like a stoic, I am not saying… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not doing and that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
'I am' is nothing but another name for the ego. Now you will be getting into trouble. If the ego is convinced… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You cannot drop the ego. Once you start trying to drop the ego you will get in a very deep mess; you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Through meditation one discovers one's own light. That light you can call your soul, your self, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is goal-oriented. The ego is hankering for the future. It can hanker even for the other life, it can hanker… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Buddha has said to his disciples: Whenever you meditate, after each meditation, surrender all that you have earned out of meditation, surrender… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless… — 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
