By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One of the greatest problems that money creates is that you never know whether you are loved or your money is loved,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have not looked at the poor woman for years, for the simple reason that marriage makes things so certain. Marriage makes… — 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
To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the… — 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
My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't know! Nobody has ever known. Why would Jesus have remained unmarried if he had known the secret? He knew the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One moment it was there, another moment it is gone. One moment we are here, and another moment we have gone. And… — 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
