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- All religions are nothing but a science - or an art - to teach you how to die. And the only way to teach you…
- First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest…
- The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes,…
- You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain…
- If you expect anything out of love, or meditation, you will get only frustration, and negative emptiness will happen. If you love for the sheer…
- What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence,…
- The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t…
- The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don`t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody…
- The ego is nothing but condensed unawareness. When you become aware by and by that condensed unawareness we call 'ego' disappears. Just as if you…
- First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord.
- When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you find yourself, because…
- In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first…
- Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.
- If you understand, if you see, if you can feel and experience that you are not separate from existence, that you are one with it,…
- So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not escape the fact.…
- Change the emphasis, turn your attention around. If you become concerned with death, your life comes to be revealed to you for the first time,…
- The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to…
- Surrender is just like love. That's why I say only lovers can become sannyasins - because they know a little of how to surrender. Love…
- Brahmacharya is not against sex. If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy: it is not…
- Love can become devotion. Love is the first step; only then can devotion flower. But for us even love is a faraway reality, sex is…
- Meditation has to spread all over your life. Whatsoever you do, do meditatively. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively. If you are making love, make love meditatively.…
- You will have to relax from the circumference. The first step in relaxing is the body. Remember as many times as possible to look in…
- Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the primary. If your…
- First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the simplest, then the…
- First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful.…
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