Rajneesh Quotes

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .

Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

Zen has no theory. It is a non-theoretical approach into reality. It has no doctrine and no dogma - hence it has no church, no priest, no pope.

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

Seriousness is a disease.

When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.

Just get out of your own way.

This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.

Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.

Remember, meditation will bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive; your life will become richer

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.

Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth.

Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.

Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality.

Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.

Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.

Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.

Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond.

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

Respect Life and Life will respect You. Love Life and Love will shower Blessings on You.

It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority - to the very innermost shrine of your being.

Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.

Beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart.

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.

The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you.

Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness.

Live without expectations and there will be no frustration.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

Prem Bubula, I have told you that a woman is to be loved, not understood.