I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You can call it tathata, suchness. 'Suchness' is a Buddhist way of expressing that there is something in you which always remains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Feeling very happy - why? An explanation is needed. No, happiness needs no explanation, happiness is its own explanation. God is creating… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless we cut the world population there is no way to avoid violence. People are hungry, people are starving, dying. When somebody… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply don`t choose.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I would like the whole world to be full with authentic art, throbbing with it, living with it, because that is the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real meditation is just allowing the mind to have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If I fulfill YOUR expectations, how am I going to transform you? I have to DESTROY your expectations. I have to destroy… — 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
Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is good that life never fulfils your dreams - it always goes on disposing, in a way. It gives you a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition comes in,… — 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
