Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Hell is hot, fire. But I tell you, you are providing your own coal. This is how things are: If you move… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You will have to relax from the circumference. The first step in relaxing is the body. Remember as many times as possible… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whatever you are doing, if there is contentment and a feeling that this whole existence is nothing but the manifestation of godliness,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Why is so much sex needed? Because you are tense, sex becomes a release. Your tensions are released through it - you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so… — 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
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will… — 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 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
Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned, you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whenever you drop something by fight, it is never dropped. You can drop smoking by fighting, and then you will start doing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are 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
