I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have… — 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
When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My sannyasins have to be creators, not through the mind but through meditation. And it comes of its own accord, one need… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You earn money, and one day money is there -- then life says to you, 'What have you got?' But you don't… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Don't think in terms of comfort; think in terms of freedom. Don't think in terms of safety, think in terms of being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is what meditation means: how to be not identified with the mind - how to create a space between yourself and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Marriage is an effort to legalize love. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the tomorrows. Man… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship. They will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Remember that hate is not the opposite of love as people think. Hate is love standing upside down; it is not the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question of choiceless… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am absolutely against positive thinking. You will be surprised that if you don't choose, if you remain in a choiceless awareness,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Yesterday you were thinking about today because then it was tomorrow; now it is today and you are thinking about tomorrow, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means you don't have anything, any object to think about. You are just in a state of absolute aloneness. You don't… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To accept yourself wherever. you are.... And don't think in terms of competition! You need not be anywhere else. Wherever you are,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Love dispels fear just as light dispels darkness. If even for a moment you have been in love with someone, fear disappears… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My whole effort is how to beautify this present moment, how to make people more celebrating, how to make people more joyous,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is no greater enjoyment than that of sharing something. Have you given something to somebody? That`s why people enjoy giving gifts… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years,… — 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
