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There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death. -- Rajneesh
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It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion the frustration will become smaller. A day will come when there will be no expectation; then you will never come across any frustration. -- Rajneesh
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You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be. -- Rajneesh
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One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights. -- Rajneesh
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Beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart. -- Rajneesh
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All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings, only you have to be capable of seeing. All moments are benedictions. If you accept with a deep gratitude, nothing ever goes wrong. -- Rajneesh
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When desiring ceases, the other world opens. The other world is hidden in this world. But because your eyes are full of desire, full of the ego, you cannot see it. -- Rajneesh
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Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance. -- Rajneesh
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All desiring is desiring for the futile. It leads only into frustration. -- Rajneesh
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Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. That's why love gives such fullness, such deep contentment, such tremendously overflowing joy. Remain in love and let love be the door to the divine. -- Rajneesh
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Mind can only desire, and each desire is going to be frustrated. Instead of bringing more meditation, it will bring you more frustration. Instead of bringing you more love, it will bring to you more anger. Instead of silence and peace, it will bring more traffic of thoughts. -- Rajneesh
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You only believe that it is a relationship. It is a conflict, it is enmity, it is jealousy, it is aggression, it is domination, it is possession, and many things - but not relationship. How can you relate with two egos there? When there are two egos, then there are four persons. -- Rajneesh
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You don't seem to have guts. There is no need to surrender to each other. Surrender to love means: enjoy in the happiness of the other, rejoice in the being of the other; be in tune with each other, dance in harmony. -- Rajneesh
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If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself. -- Rajneesh
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If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert. -- Rajneesh
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Existence is god called through love, provoked through love. The moment you become capable of prayer, existence becomes god. The moment you become capable of deep love, life becomes god. It is a transfiguration of the same energy. -- Rajneesh
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I teach you both effort and effortlessness, because unless you attain to effortless-effort, unless you attain to active passivity, unless you attain to a singing-silence - they look paradoxical - unless you attain to an unmoving dance, you have not attained. -- Rajneesh
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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 is the first step towards the divine, surrender is the last. And two steps is the whole journey. -- Rajneesh
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Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment. -- Rajneesh
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Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives become, then it never stops. The whole act becomes automatic and the mind goes on its own. Then sex also is a boredom. -- Rajneesh
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I am here; be nourished by me. Eat me, drink me; be nourished by me. Let me become a part of your being, then I will be available forever and forever. There is no other way. -- Rajneesh
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Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else. -- Rajneesh
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Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet? -- Rajneesh
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[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance. -- Rajneesh
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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 bring a lamp into the room - and the darkness disappears. Awareness is the lamp, the lamp we were talking about the first day. Be a lamp unto yourself. -- Rajneesh
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The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself. -- Rajneesh
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My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing. -- Rajneesh
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Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being ... -- Rajneesh
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Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is not doing something. But you cannot take a jump immediately into non-doing. So I suggest that you make your doing total. Move into it so deeply, and so totally that suddenly the doing drops, and you alone are left, just existing. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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How can one become enlightened in one single moment? One can, because one is enlightened
one just has to recognize the fact. It is not something that happens from the outside, it is something that arises from the inside. It has always been there but you were clouded, you were full of thoughts. -- Rajneesh
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If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find. -- Rajneesh
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It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering. -- Rajneesh
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Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic. -- Rajneesh
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Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire. -- Rajneesh
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Always choose the new, the less travelled by. Always choose the unknown, the less travelled by. -- Rajneesh
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If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship. -- Rajneesh
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Being is so significant that it is irreplaceable. You are just yourself. Do something that comes out of you - not to assert, but to express! Sing your song, dance your dance, rejoice in being whatever nature has chosen you to be. -- Rajneesh
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A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad ... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad. -- Rajneesh
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The technique of positive thinking is not a technique that transforms you. It is simply repressing the negative aspects of your personality. It is a method of choice. It cannot help awareness; it goes against awareness. Awareness is always choiceless. -- Rajneesh
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Learn to listen and trust your inner voice -- Rajneesh
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Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it. -- Rajneesh
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Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in. -- Rajneesh
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If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by fear, anger and hate, will be taken over by your love, your sensitivity, your compassion, your creativity. This is the whole alchemy of changing base metals into gold. -- Rajneesh
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And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows. -- Rajneesh
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Just for a few tiny buds on your tongue you are killing live animals, with no sensitivity, with no awareness, with no love. It seems impossible; how can a man who has known love be capable of doing such things? A man who loves his wife, who loves his children goes on eating meat? Impossible. -- Rajneesh
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The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence. -- Rajneesh
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Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light. -- Rajneesh
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There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns. -- Rajneesh
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Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness. -- Rajneesh
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Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very silence, their very love, their very peace will be the only way to protect this beautiful planet. -- Rajneesh
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Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind. -- Rajneesh
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That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration. -- Rajneesh
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Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter -- Rajneesh
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Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish. -- Rajneesh
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Sin is a technique of the pseudo-religions. A true religion has no need of the concept at all. The pseudo-religion cannot live without the concept of sin, because sin is the technique of creating guilt in people. -- Rajneesh
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Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting. -- Rajneesh
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When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there. -- Rajneesh
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This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind ... just being herenow ... being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars. -- Rajneesh
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Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. -- Rajneesh
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Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough. -- Rajneesh
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Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy. -- Rajneesh
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What kind of living can be out of fear? Once the armor is dropped you can live out of love, you can live in a mature way. The fully matured man has no fear, no defense; he is psychologically completely open and vulnerable. -- Rajneesh
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Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church. -- Rajneesh
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When love moves to the fifth center then whatever talents you have, any creative dimension, is possible for you. This is the center of creativity. It is not only for songs, not only for music; it is for all creativity. -- Rajneesh
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If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having. -- Rajneesh
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What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together. -- Rajneesh
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If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully. -- Rajneesh
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Surrender means seeing that "I am not separate" - just SEEING that "I am not separate." Nothing is surrendered, nothing is dropped; just a nonsense idea, a dream is no more there because you are awake. -- Rajneesh
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All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom. -- Rajneesh
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Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you, everybody is an end. But then ambition will flop, and our whole educational system depends on ambitiousness, our politics depends on ambition, our religions depend on ambition. -- Rajneesh
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Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness. -- Rajneesh
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Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence. -- Rajneesh
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The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful. -- Rajneesh
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Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality. -- Rajneesh
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Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you are here to grow, that you have become a lush green bush full of flowers, fragrance, dancing in the wind and in the rain and in the sun. -- Rajneesh
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The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted. -- Rajneesh
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Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away. -- Rajneesh
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The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality.
The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you will be a loser.
In deep surrender, the ego disappears.
And when the ego is not there, for the first time you become aware of that which has always been there. -- Rajneesh
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Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go? -- Rajneesh
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Whatsoever you can be you are. There is no goal. And we are not going anywhere. We are simply celebrating here. Existence is not a journey, it is a celebration. Think of it as a celebration, as a delight, as a joy! Don't turn it into a suffering, don't turn it into a duty, a work. Let it be play. -- Rajneesh
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When your desires drop, the world is there, but it is a totally new world. It is so fresh, it is so colorful, it is so beautiful! But a mind attached to things cannot see it because eyes are closed with attachment. -- Rajneesh
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Meditate, become more aware and then you will see: choices disappear, a choicelessness arises. And it is such a tremendous joy to have a choiceless spontaneity. It is such a freedom. Choice is such a burden. -- Rajneesh
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The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be successful, and all these things create your tensions, your anxieties: how to be a celebrity? -- Rajneesh
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Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature. -- Rajneesh
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All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it comes out of meditation, creativity is sharing the joy, sharing the blissfulness that you have. Mind has no joy - it is really a wound, very painful. -- Rajneesh
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The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the flowers,looking at the sky ... Intelligence also has to be,in the same way,childlike. -- Rajneesh
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Our whole energy remains blocked either in the past or in the future. When you withdraw all your energy from past and future a tremendous explosion happens. -- Rajneesh
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Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future. -- Rajneesh
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When you are so full that there is no emptiness in you, that you have started feeling the significance of the ordinary, day-to-day existence, when moment to moment you live totally, intensely, passionately, then God is available. -- Rajneesh
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Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous! -- Rajneesh
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Life reflects, life resounds, life echoes whatsoever you throw at life. -- Rajneesh
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Love dispels fear just as light dispels darkness. If even for a moment you have been in love with someone, fear disappears and thinking stops. With fear thinking continues. The more you are afraid, the more you have to think. -- Rajneesh
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First, meditation, and then out of meditation comes creativity of its own accord. -- Rajneesh
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When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face. Zero is the ultimate experience. Nothingness - or more accurately NO-THINGNESS - is your original face. -- Rajneesh
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Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic. -- Rajneesh
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If your ego is hurt you may become angry. Understand that ego itself is a disease. Dissolve your ego as far as possible. If you have inferiority complex, or have a very deficient ego you will loose your temper very easily. -- Rajneesh
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Be a witness of sex too. Don't be the controller of it. Don't try to forcibly bring it under control, remain a witness of it too. Just as you are a witness of everything else, remain a witness of sex too. -- Rajneesh
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Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman will be trapped by you. It is a mutual trap. And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever. -- Rajneesh
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Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love. -- Rajneesh
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To live in relationship and yet remain independent, that is what courage is. -- Rajneesh
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People love freedom - but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable. -- Rajneesh
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Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep. -- Rajneesh
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The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you. -- Rajneesh
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The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark. -- Rajneesh
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Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is.
Just go on becoming more and more aware
you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension.
It will bring great fulfilment -- Rajneesh
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All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies. -- Rajneesh
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Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say. -- Rajneesh
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Transform your sex into love, and transform your love into prayer -- Rajneesh
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When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death. -- Rajneesh
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The miserable person is easily enslaved.The cheerful person,the blissful person,cannot be enslaved. -- Rajneesh
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Unless one becomes a womb one never becomes pregnant with god. One cannot conquer god, one can't be aggressive - that is the sure way to fail. One can only surrender and allow god to happen. That's what the quality of being feminine really is. That is the essential core of meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing - that's perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful - if you have time, join him. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own self. -- Rajneesh
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You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression. -- Rajneesh
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The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity. -- Rajneesh
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Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love. -- Rajneesh
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There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle of meditation. -- Rajneesh
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The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself. -- Rajneesh
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As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love. -- Rajneesh
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Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted, like a giant cedar, but he has no wings. He cannot fly into the sky. He has roots but no wings. -- Rajneesh
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How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige." -- Rajneesh
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Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others' happiness. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence ... where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense; anxiety enters immediately. How to do? What to do? How to succeed? How not to fail? You have already moved into the future. -- Rajneesh
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Just your laughter will be enough to prevent the war. Your celebration, your dance, will be enough to prevent the war. Your ecstasy, your meditation, will create a tremendous force which will be far higher because it is life-affirmative. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an organic part, nothing 'put separate'. The temple should exist exactly in the middle of the market, and all distinctions between the sacred and the secular should be dissolved. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation, forget all about meditations, let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. And then time disappears. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life -- Rajneesh
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Your life sparks fires from within your innermost temple. No one can reach there but you, it is your inner sanctum. You are your own master there, only you can reach and ignite the fire. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable ... -- Rajneesh
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You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have to put it aside and see within. That's the whole method of meditation, awareness, watchfulness. -- Rajneesh
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Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, it is not a question of to whom. -- Rajneesh
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Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom. -- Rajneesh
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I am not saying renounce sex, I am saying transform it. It need not remain just biological: bring some spirituality to it. While making love, meditate too. While making love, be prayerful. Love should not be just a physical act; pour your soul into it. -- Rajneesh
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Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body. -- Rajneesh
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Nothing has to be changed, because all is beautiful - that is enlightenment. All is as it should be, everything is perfect. This is the most perfect world, this moment lacks nothing - the experience of this is what enlightenment is. -- Rajneesh
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During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him. -- Rajneesh
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It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you. -- Rajneesh
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In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating. -- Rajneesh
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Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition. -- Rajneesh
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If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction. -- Rajneesh
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Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal - just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving joyously, without bothering about any destination. -- Rajneesh
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And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it. Then you are not a carbon copy, you are original. The Zen people call it finding the original face. -- Rajneesh
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Remember: whatsoever I am saying is not the thing that I want to say to you. Whatsoever I am saying has nothing to do with truth, because truth cannot be said. Whatsoever I am saying is nothing but a hammering. If you become awake, you will see the truth. -- Rajneesh
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Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence - which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence. -- Rajneesh
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I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak. -- Rajneesh
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The innermost core is witnessing, awareness, watchfulness. You can call it anything, but it will be another meaning of witnessing. Truth is pure awareness. -- Rajneesh
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Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present. -- Rajneesh
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Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone. -- Rajneesh
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I have just instructed Laxmi to make a small temple for smoking here in the ashram. But you have to go very alert, aware, meditative! If you can smoke meditatively, it is perfectly beautiful. If it stops by being meditative, that too is perfectly beautiful. Life is sacred. -- Rajneesh
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If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don't be a miser; only misers lose energy. -- Rajneesh
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When you feel expansion of your consciousness, that is the most ecstatic experience possible, because suddenly you are the whole universe. Stars are within you. The sun rises within you and sets within you. The earth moves within you. The flowers blossom within you. -- Rajneesh
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Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust. -- Rajneesh
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If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which to read your Bible. And you will not be able to read much either. For a moment it is there, and by the time you have opened the Bible it is gone. -- Rajneesh
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Many times people come to me to be reassured. They ask, they say, 'I'm feeling very happy and blissful. What do you say?' What is the need to say anything? The very need shows that the happiness is unreal and imaginary. -- Rajneesh
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Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: It won't allow you to fly. -- Rajneesh
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Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness. -- Rajneesh
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Love respects the other. It is a give-and-take relationship. Love enjoys giving, and love enjoys taking. It is a sharing, it is a communication. Both are equal in love; in a sexual relationship both are not equal. Love has a totally different beauty to it. -- Rajneesh
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Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal. -- Rajneesh
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Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health. -- Rajneesh
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Jesus was a crackpot. -- Rajneesh
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Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities. -- Rajneesh
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When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being. -- Rajneesh
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Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you. You will have become freer from the society and its conditioning. -- Rajneesh
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In dreams the mind is constantly giving you substitutes just to protect sleep. And the same is happening while you are awake. The mind is giving you substitutes just to protect your sanity; otherwise you will be scattered in fragments. -- Rajneesh
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At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return. -- Rajneesh
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You don't know what beauty is. You use the word, certainly, but your word is empty. Beauty is known only by one who has known the inner beauty, one who has known the inner flower opening. Then whenever a flower is seen, it reminds you of your inner beauty. -- Rajneesh
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The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number of rebels, a rebellious spirit, then our days on the earth are numbered. We have to change our consciousness, create more meditative energy in the world, create more lovingness. -- Rajneesh
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You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful, but still sad. The very word sad gives you wrong connotations - that something is wrong. This is your interpretation. To me, life in its totality is good. -- Rajneesh
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God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun. -- Rajneesh
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Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha. -- Rajneesh
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If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before. -- Rajneesh
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When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind. -- Rajneesh
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Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being. -- Rajneesh
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Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light. -- Rajneesh
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Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom. -- Rajneesh
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If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive. -- Rajneesh
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Two identical things do not exist at all, so there is no need to be 'somebody.' You just be yourself, and suddenly you are unique, incomparable. That's why I say that this is a paradox: those who search fail, and those who don't bother, suddenly attain. -- Rajneesh
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No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities. -- Rajneesh
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If you find a saint who has no sense of humour, then he is not a saint at all. Impossible. His very seriousness says that he has not achieved. Once you have some inner experiences of your own you become very playful, you become very innocent, childlike. -- Rajneesh
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A life of both sadness and blissfulness is multi-dimensional; it moves in all dimensions together. Watch the statue of Buddha or sometimes look into my eyes and you will find both together - a blissfulness, a peace, a sadness also. -- Rajneesh
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Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves. -- Rajneesh
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'What is celebration?' Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: 'What is celebration?' -- Rajneesh
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Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear. -- Rajneesh
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Only those people are really sane who have transcended the mind, who have gone beyond it into silence where no thoughts, no desires, no emotions, nothing exists. Only in that peace is your real health. -- Rajneesh
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You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven. -- Rajneesh
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Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that ... And this is not a belief that you can get from me or from Buddha or from Jesus. This is not knowledge; you will have to see it. You can see it right now! -- Rajneesh
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Unless your sexuality rises and reaches to love it is mundane, it has nothing sacred about it. When your sex becomes love, then it is entering into a totally different dimension - the dimension of the mysterious and the miraculous. Now it is becoming religious, sacred, it is no longer profane. -- Rajneesh
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If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable. -- Rajneesh
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Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being. -- Rajneesh
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To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi. -- Rajneesh
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Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort of death. And when you die, only then do you enter into the divine. -- Rajneesh
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The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the country - everybody is in a hurry to impose a certain religion on the child. How foolish! How stupid! Religion needs maturity, great understanding, before one can choose. -- Rajneesh
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Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven. -- Rajneesh
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A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave. -- Rajneesh
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The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble. -- Rajneesh
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Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid. -- Rajneesh
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Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain -- Rajneesh
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Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust. -- Rajneesh
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I have been teaching you all the methods of meditation. You can choose any method that suits you. There are only one hundred and twelve methods; there is no possibility of adding more. It is exhaustive. All the methods possible have been explored. The simplest is witnessing. -- Rajneesh
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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 complex, then the more complex. And then only can you relax at the ultimate core. -- Rajneesh
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I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. -- Rajneesh
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The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you are in the power-field of someone whose magnetism is far more powerful than any other kind of temptation, it is impossible to reach. That is the meaning of disciplehood. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is not your doing. You simply make the effort, but it is not your doing. Your effort is needed to prepare the ground. As the ground is ready, immediately you see you are no more; the whole cosmos is. You have entered a greater womb, an eternal womb of tremendous peace and ecstasy. -- Rajneesh
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Creativity means loving whatsoever you do - enjoying, celebrating it, as a gift of God! -- Rajneesh
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You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is. -- Rajneesh
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When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens. -- Rajneesh
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Relationship and love are totally different things. Love is never a relationship, and relationship is never love. Love relates, but it is not a relationship. Relationship is a dead thing, a closed thing. Love is a flowing. -- Rajneesh
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Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing. -- Rajneesh
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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 body is tense, don't start with the mind. Wait. Work on the body. And just small things are of immense help. -- Rajneesh
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To me spirituality needs an honest individuality. It does not allow any kind of dependence. It creates a freedom for itself, whatever the cost. It is never in the crowd but alone, because the crowd has never found any truth. The truth has been found only in people's aloneness. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation cannot be taught, it can only be caught. I am meditation. If you are available you can catch it. -- Rajneesh
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I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality. -- Rajneesh
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In pure awareness the mind cannot drag you down into the mud, into the gutter. In anger, in hatred, in jealousy, the mind is absolutely impotent in the face of awareness. And because the mind is absolutely impotent, your whole being is in a profound silence - the peace that passeth understanding. -- Rajneesh
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Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is. -- Rajneesh
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Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost. -- Rajneesh
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Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment. -- Rajneesh
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But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death. -- Rajneesh
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Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love's own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end. -- Rajneesh
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Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more. -- Rajneesh
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One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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This word 'individual' is beautiful; it means indivisible. Right now as you are, you are divided. You are only many fragments clinging together anyhow without any center being there, without any master in the house, with only servants. And for a moment any servant can become the master. -- Rajneesh
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Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life. -- Rajneesh
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First you will feel your inner transformation in your outer relationships, and then you will go deep. Then only will you begin to feel something inner. But we have a settled attitude about ourselves. We don't want to look into relationship at all, because then the naked face comes up. -- Rajneesh
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An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make it so full of love and full of music and full of poetry and full of dance that there are no limitations for it. Life is not hard. It is man's stupidity that makes it hard. -- Rajneesh
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Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face. -- Rajneesh
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When there is nothing to desire, there is nothing to dream about either, because dreams are reflections of your desires. Dreams are reflections of your frustrations, dreams are reflections of your repressions, dreams reflect your day-life. -- Rajneesh
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The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed. -- Rajneesh
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Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality. -- Rajneesh
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We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love. -- Rajneesh
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A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the dimension of being. -- Rajneesh
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A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love. -- Rajneesh
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This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood. -- Rajneesh
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Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears. -- Rajneesh
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Just be yourself, it means to be beautiful. -- Rajneesh
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Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all that is beautiful and that which is not beautiful. In that acceptance a transcendence happens and one becomes free. -- Rajneesh
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Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence. -- Rajneesh
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Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view. -- Rajneesh
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Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love. -- Rajneesh
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To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life. -- Rajneesh
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You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share - and sharing is beautiful. -- Rajneesh
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Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer becomes meditation. Simply one thing has to be remembered: do whatsoever you like, but do it with full consciousness, and then you will not go astray. -- Rajneesh
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The greatest adventure that can happen to a human being is the movement from mind to no-mind, the movement from personality to individuality. The no-mind has an individuality: the mind is social. -- Rajneesh
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Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught. -- Rajneesh
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Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering. -- Rajneesh
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Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised - a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat slowly, and you will be surprised - there is great relaxation. Do everything slowly ... just to change the old pattern, just to come out of old habits. -- Rajneesh
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If you don't take the lamp of awareness with you, you are going to create a hell around you. Light your lamp wherever you gocourting, not courting, that is not the point. Wherever you go, whatsoever you do, always do it in the inner light, with awareness. -- Rajneesh
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In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you are boiling within. -- Rajneesh
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Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy. -- Rajneesh
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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. Then it is simple, too. You dont depend on others and you dont make others dependent on you. -- Rajneesh
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The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is. -- Rajneesh
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Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it. -- Rajneesh
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Be open, and God starts pouring into you like wine from every nook and corner of existence. Then wherever you look, you find God. Then whatsoever you touch, you find God. Then whatsoever you drink and eat, you find God. And when God pours from everywhere, then life is a celebration. -- Rajneesh
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Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying. -- Rajneesh
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The ego is your enemy, not your friend. It is the ego that gives you wounds and hurts you. It is the ego that makes you violent, angry, jealous, competitive. It is the ego that is continuously comparing and feeling miserable. -- Rajneesh
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My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant. -- Rajneesh
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For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is a useless hypothesis; it can be discarded easily into the dustbin. It is not needed. -- Rajneesh
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All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness. -- Rajneesh
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Without any fight, just being a witness, mind disappears. -- Rajneesh
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Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a better world, a better society, better literature, better poetry, better paintings, better sculpture, better human beings. -- Rajneesh
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Put your whole energy into meditation. Once you are centered in your being, once you know the inner path, then wherever you are you can manage to go to the center without any difficulty. Even when you are dying, it will not make any difference. You may be sick, it will not make any difference. -- Rajneesh
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Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past, who is absolutely discontinuous with the past. He has no desire. And when there is no desire, for the first time you live -- Rajneesh
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The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself. -- Rajneesh
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Unless you come out of your mind and become a no-mind you will not know what life is all about, you will live in vain. You will not have your honeymoon, it is impossible. You will not know the sweetness that existence is full of and the ecstasy. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and learn, no, with total relaxedness, in a let go, in an opening of your being. You listen, not to know, you simply listen to understand. -- Rajneesh
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The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because of my people around the earth! They are the only hope. Only millions of buddhas are capable of creating the atmosphere for peace, for love, for compassion, for celebration. -- Rajneesh
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As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself. -- Rajneesh
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When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable ... -- Rajneesh
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If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive. -- Rajneesh
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Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known. -- Rajneesh
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It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions. -- Rajneesh
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If you go and watch the way the primitive tribes live, you will know what work is in relation to celebration. They work the whole day so they can sing and dance with abandon at night. -- Rajneesh
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Every man now is responsible to create a buddhafield around himself, an energy field that goes on becoming bigger and bigger. Create as many vibrations of laughter, joy, celebration, as possible; dance, sing, let the whole of humanity by and by catch the fire of Zen and the wind of Zen. -- Rajneesh
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Everyone is born unique. No comparison is possible. You are you, and I am I. -- Rajneesh
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The whole art of ecstasy, meditation, samadhi, is: How to become one with the rhythm of the universe. When it exhales, you exhale. When it inhales, you inhale. You live in it, are not separate, are one with it. -- Rajneesh
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Never ask, "Who is my real friend?" Ask, "Am I a real friend to somebody?" That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself. -- Rajneesh
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We are identified with the ego, and with the ego there are many things: anger and hatred and jealousy and possessiveness and greed - the whole train. The ego functions like an engine and there are many many compartments following it. Once the ego dies the whole train stops. -- Rajneesh
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Choicelessness brings you to the whole. Choice is always of the part, necessarily so. And then one person goes from one choice to another, becomes a driftwood - from this bank to another bank, from that bank to this bank. This is how you have been moving, down the ages, for so many lives -- Rajneesh
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If you can come to this nowness without sex, sex, by and by will become useless, it will disappear. It will not be a desire then. If you want to move in it you can move into it as a fun, but not as a desire. Then there is no obsession in it because you are not dependent on it. -- Rajneesh
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All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. -- Rajneesh
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Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much. -- Rajneesh
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Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness. It is just the empty sky. -- Rajneesh
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Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? -- Rajneesh
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Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist. -- Rajneesh
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core. -- Rajneesh
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True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail. -- Rajneesh
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As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you. -- Rajneesh
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Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And only a conscious death can bring you to a conscious birth; and then a far more conscious life opens its doors. -- Rajneesh
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I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads. -- Rajneesh
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God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration. -- Rajneesh
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You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality. -- Rajneesh
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There is no God, but there is certainly a quality I call godliness. It comprises compassion, love, friendship, joy, creativity. It brings you new songs, it brings you new dances. It brings you the truth, and the immersion of you into the truth. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not only in tune, you really find you are the whole. -- Rajneesh
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Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth. -- Rajneesh
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To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master. -- Rajneesh
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Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost. -- Rajneesh
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A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition comes in, love disappears. It cannot live in bondage, and a condition gives it an imprisonment. Love can only live like the vast sky. Love knows no boundaries. -- Rajneesh
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The mind exists in time, in fact the mind is time; it exists in the past and the future. And remember, time consists of only two tenses, the past and the future. The present is not part of time, the present is part of eternity. -- Rajneesh
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The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving. -- Rajneesh
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Become alert! Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth. -- Rajneesh
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Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love. -- Rajneesh
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But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that 'Now I am a loving person because I am in a relationship.' And the relationship may be just one of monopoly, possessiveness, exclusiveness. -- Rajneesh
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To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole. -- Rajneesh
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Why do people hanker for the home? - security, safety. But in the name of security and safety, they don't make homes, they make prisons - and they are the jailed and they are the jailers, but because they have the keys in their own hands, they think they are free. -- Rajneesh
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If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war
to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense! -- Rajneesh
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It is better not to call anything to anybody - just remain centered in yourself. Look at the world and drop judgments, and you will have such a pure atmosphere around you - no appreciation, no condemnation, just a pure watchfulness. This watchfulness, I call meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Even trees are creative, rocks are creative. You are man, the very culmination of this existence. You are at the top, you are conscious. Never think with wrong beliefs, and never be attached to wrong beliefs, that you are uncreative. -- Rajneesh
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Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice. -- Rajneesh
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Tomorrow never comes. -- Rajneesh
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If you come to a really religious man you will feel a grace around him, effortless. He has not done anything to himself, he has simply relaxed into the ultimate, and you feel the effortlessness around him. -- Rajneesh
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Our mind is a machine, it is not a mystery. And the mind always wants to know the how, the why. And because of this persistent inquiry about how and why, it goes on missing all that is beyond the boundaries of machines. Life is beyond the boundaries of machines. -- Rajneesh
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Happy people continuously change; and because they change they become more and more happy; and then more and more change is possible. -- Rajneesh
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Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness. -- Rajneesh
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Next time when anger comes just watch it. Don't say, I am angry. Say, Anger is there and I am watching it. And see the difference! -- Rajneesh
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So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?' -- Rajneesh
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A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner. -- Rajneesh
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There are people who want to become rich; they become rich. If you persist you can fulfill any kind of stupidity -- Rajneesh
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Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That's what meditation is all about: being a child again - a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing. -- Rajneesh
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When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you. -- Rajneesh
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Anger is temporary madness. -- Rajneesh
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The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power ... -- Rajneesh
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The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away; your individuality, your individual arises. To have a personality is hypocrisy. To be an individual is your birthright. -- Rajneesh
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The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation. -- Rajneesh
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else ... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else. -- Rajneesh
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Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind. -- Rajneesh
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth. -- Rajneesh
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The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things. -- Rajneesh
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The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life. -- Rajneesh
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Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world -- Rajneesh
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God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating. -- Rajneesh
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Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented. -- Rajneesh
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In fact everything can become a sort of meditation, because in everything there are two dimensions - just as there are in the first breath: the outer and the inner. -- Rajneesh
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Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both? -- Rajneesh
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Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong! -- Rajneesh
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The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness. -- Rajneesh
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Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up to now, this has been done. This is the greatest crime that parents have always committed against children. They go on forcing the child. -- Rajneesh
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Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar. -- Rajneesh
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The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude. -- Rajneesh
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Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration. -- Rajneesh
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If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without jealousy there can be no condemnation. You condemn people because somehow, somewhere, unconsciously you feel they are enjoying themselves and you have missed. -- Rajneesh
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Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage. -- Rajneesh
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You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves. -- Rajneesh
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Watch,witness,observe your thoughts-without any judgement,without any condemnation or evaluation ... -- Rajneesh
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Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. -- Rajneesh
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Society is just a structure with no soul. The soul is of the individual. One individual outweighs all societies. And, one individual's revolution outweighs all revolutions in the whole of history, because one man can become the womb for God to be reborn. -- Rajneesh
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The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become. -- Rajneesh
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Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here. -- Rajneesh
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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. It is there and you cannot escape it! It has come into existence with you. -- Rajneesh
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There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present. -- Rajneesh
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Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God. -- Rajneesh
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Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness. -- Rajneesh
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Paradise is not somewhere else ... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death ... It is in you right now. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind. -- Rajneesh
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The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness. -- Rajneesh
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To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts disappearing. -- Rajneesh
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You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. -- Rajneesh
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Once a person is at the center of love, there is very rarely a possibility for him to fall back down, because he has tasted something of the heights. Now valleys will be very dark, ugly; he has seen sunlit peaks, not very high, but still high; now his whole desire will be ... -- Rajneesh
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If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils. -- Rajneesh
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Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either. -- Rajneesh
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As you are now you are just a liquid phenomenon, changing every moment, nothing stable. Really you cannot claim any "I"
you don't have one. You are many "I"s just in a flow, a riverlike flow. You are a crowd, not an individual yet. But meditation can make you an individual. -- Rajneesh
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Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus. -- Rajneesh
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I am free. If I want to be sad, it is my freedom. If I want to be happy, it is my freedom. Once you know that you are your world, you have penetrated into a different kind of understanding. Then nothing else matters - all else is games and excuses. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is a state of no-mind! You can not find meditation through the mind .. because mind will perpetuate itself! You can find meditation only by putting the mind aside, by being cool, indifferent, unidentified with the mind. -- Rajneesh
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Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has to meditate; meditation is a byproduct. Without marriage, who will bother to meditate? For what? You will be already blissful! -- Rajneesh
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A creative act enhances the beauty of the world; it gives something to the world, it never takes anything from it. A creative person comes into the world, enhances the beauty of the world - a song here, a painting there. He makes the world dance better, enjoy better, love better, meditate better. -- Rajneesh
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Attachment is the shadow of the ego. Attachments are immediately created wherever you see 'I am'. -- Rajneesh
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Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines. -- Rajneesh
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Ordinarily we think sex makes people loving - sex can never make people loving. In fact, it is sexuality that prevents love from growing - because it is the same energy that has to become love. It is being destroyed in sex. To become love, the same energy has to move to the heart centre. -- Rajneesh
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Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself. -- Rajneesh
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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, all fear of death disappears because there is nobody to die inside you. In the first place there is nobody at all, existence lives through you. -- Rajneesh
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An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful. -- Rajneesh
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The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot, and because you have agreed to be a robot you are in trouble. You are not a robot. -- Rajneesh
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The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short. -- Rajneesh
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The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation. -- Rajneesh
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The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy. -- Rajneesh
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If you are unconscious, unaware, you are living only in the body, the mortal. And a person who lives for the body, in the body, and only for the body, lives in sin. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry. -- Rajneesh
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The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide. -- Rajneesh
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Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change. -- Rajneesh
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My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be. -- Rajneesh
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Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake -- Rajneesh
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If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need for sex; love is enough unto itself. When that moment comes then there is the possibility of prayer dawning upon you. -- Rajneesh
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If meditation is going rightly, deep, you will feel transformed throughout the whole day. A subtle contentment will be present every moment. With whatsoever you are doing, you will feel a cool center inside - contentment. -- Rajneesh
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Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror. -- Rajneesh
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With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural. -- Rajneesh
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Mind is memory, not intelligence. -- Rajneesh
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If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone. -- Rajneesh
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If you deceive someone, you lose one of life's greatest treasures, you lose the capacity to trust. Because without trust, love is not possible. -- Rajneesh
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Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic, that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea - and there is no experiment up to now that has found any center in the brain which corresponds to awareness. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One. -- Rajneesh
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Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is perhaps the master key for all our problems. -- Rajneesh
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It is the deep urge to be one with the whole, the deep urge to dissolve I and thou into one unity. Love is that because we are separated from our own source, out of that separation the desire arises to fall back into the whole, to become one with it. -- Rajneesh
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Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole. -- Rajneesh
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Joy arises only in creating joy for others; there is no other way. The more people you can make happy, the more you will feel happy. This is the real meaning of service. -- Rajneesh
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God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple. -- Rajneesh
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The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you. -- Rajneesh
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In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning. -- Rajneesh
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If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true. -- Rajneesh
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Drop the idea of being Extraordinary! It's keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The Ordinary person has light in his eyes; he has become extraordinary but he has no idea of it. -- Rajneesh
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Creativity is always from the beyond. -- Rajneesh
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It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness. -- Rajneesh
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Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean. -- Rajneesh
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You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more. -- Rajneesh
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When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude. -- Rajneesh
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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 -- Rajneesh
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People keep planning their lives
searching security and comfort.
This silence is the only security I know
those who can understand will understand. -- Rajneesh
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To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes. -- Rajneesh
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Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar. -- Rajneesh
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Love is the door, it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love. Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the only redeeming force. Love is the savior. -- Rajneesh
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Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy. -- Rajneesh
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Just get out of your own way. -- Rajneesh
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Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game. -- Rajneesh
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To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the fact that death is coming nearer and nearer and you have to be prepared for it ... -- Rajneesh
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The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible. -- Rajneesh
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Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt. -- Rajneesh
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I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom. -- Rajneesh
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That's why real awareness always leads you beyond sex, and celibacy happens on its own accord. Because to be in sex you have either to be identified with the male or identified with the female. A real celibate is one who has gone beyond, who is neither. -- Rajneesh
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Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. -- Rajneesh
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Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings. -- Rajneesh
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The essential religion is taking the whole responsibility for whatsoever you are. And immediately an insight arises: 'If I am responsible for my suffering, then it is simple, I can drop it. It is my choice. I will not choose it any more.' -- Rajneesh
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I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears. -- Rajneesh
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When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them. -- Rajneesh
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To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Just two small things: meditation and let-go. Remember these two key words: meditation and surrender. Meditation will take you in, and surrender will take you into the whole. And this is the whole of religion. Within these two words Buddha has condensed the whole essence of religion. -- Rajneesh
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Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself. -- Rajneesh
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When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are. -- Rajneesh
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Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you are an animal and not really a human being. With meditation a transformation comes: you become human, and out of your humanness, love flows. -- Rajneesh
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Be in relaxation a few moments. It can be any kind of situations - swimming in the river, relax with the river, or sunning on the beach, relax with the sun - anything. Life is full of opportunities. -- Rajneesh
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Respect man, love man. Respect his individuality, respect his differences. And that is possible only if you respect your individuality. That is possible only if you are grounded in your own being and you are unafraid. -- Rajneesh
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Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity. -- Rajneesh
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When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible. -- Rajneesh
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Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me, creativity is of tremendous import. An uncreative person is not a religious person at all. -- Rajneesh
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When a man is able to be alone he is also able to love. And his love has a totally different quality, a different beauty, a different fragrance to it. It is something divine, it is something of the beyond. It is deeply fulfilling. It brings great contentment. -- Rajneesh
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Future is your projection of unfulfilled desires. The more unfulfilled you are, the bigger a future you have. The more unfulfilled is your being, the richer the dreams you have of the future. But it is just in your mind. -- Rajneesh
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I am less interested in your chain-smoking; I am more interested in your habit. Any habit that becomes a force, a dominating force over you, is a sin. One should live more in freedom. One should be able to do things not according to habits but according to the situations. -- Rajneesh
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The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how to keep our heart closed in a world that would trample all over us if we let it. Being open hearted today seems to require tremendous courage. -- Rajneesh
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Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom. -- Rajneesh
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Compassion is not against anger. When anger disappears, compassion is. Compassion is not to be fought for; it is not against passion. When passion disappears, compassion is. Compassion is your nature. -- Rajneesh
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The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly to your experience; let it not imprison you; experience becomes a dead weight in the living and flowing, riverlike consciousness. -- Rajneesh
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Beware of dreams! And watch your dreams day in, day out, because they are continuously there. You can watch them, and by watching them you will become unidentified with them, you will become a mirror reflecting them. And this brings great freedom. Freedom from dreams is freedom from the world. -- Rajneesh
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Effortlessness is a great phenomenon. Once you know it, many millions of things become possible to you. Through effort the market; through effortlessness the God. Through effort you can never reach to nirvana - you can reach lo New Delhi, but not to nirvana. -- Rajneesh
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My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people. -- Rajneesh
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God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears. -- Rajneesh
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To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity. -- Rajneesh
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You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past. -- Rajneesh
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If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands. -- Rajneesh
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Love yourself ... accept yourself ... be yourself-these qualities will create for the first time an individual whose inner flame is undividable a great pool of energy will gather and surround you with this an inner trust will arise from within you. -- Rajneesh
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Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life. -- Rajneesh
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There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting according to your old conditionings. -- Rajneesh
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Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels. -- Rajneesh
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Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative. -- Rajneesh
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To be present is to be prayerful. -- Rajneesh
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Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure. -- Rajneesh
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You ask me, 'What is the secret of remaining happy and married?' -- Rajneesh
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Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind;don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ. -- Rajneesh
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Mind only thinks, meditation lives. -- Rajneesh
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Learn to become more of a witness, create more watchfulness. Let each act, each thought, be seen. -- Rajneesh
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The first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough - effort and then effortlessness, effort plus effortlessness. Effort precedes, and then effortlessness follows. Effortlessness is the peak of effort, it comes only when you have reached the peak -- Rajneesh
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Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both, your life becomes a celebration. -- Rajneesh
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Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do. -- Rajneesh
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Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you yourself have become a falsehood. You are too concerned with the false, and that concern makes you pseudo.
Withdraw yourself from the past and the future. Love is always an emperor. -- Rajneesh
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My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life. -- Rajneesh
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Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second. -- Rajneesh
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Religion is not a result of something that you practice. Religion enters in you any moment you relax. Religion is a flowering of relaxation, not a result of practicing. Remember the difference because when you practice you become more tense. -- Rajneesh
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When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it. -- Rajneesh
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Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It is eternal. To be healthy in consciousness means: first, to be awake; second, to be harmonious; third, to be ecstatic; and fourth, to be compassionate. -- Rajneesh
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This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation. -- Rajneesh
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Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then suddenly you will come to know: meditation follows you. If you love the work that you are doing, if you love the way you are living, then you are meditative. -- Rajneesh
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As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy. -- Rajneesh
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Walk, with awareness. Eat, with awareness. Breathe, with awareness. -- Rajneesh
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Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself. -- Rajneesh
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Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don't add to their unhappiness. -- Rajneesh
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I have been in love with the thought of Heraclitus. -- Rajneesh
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Pray with your woman, sing with your woman, play with your woman, dance with your woman, with no idea of sex. -- Rajneesh
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Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art. -- Rajneesh
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Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it can transform each couple into soul mates. -- Rajneesh
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Enlightenment happens only in that moment when there is no complaint in you,when you are not going anywhere, not desiring, not condemning, not judging.You simply exist and with total acceptance. This moment there is enlightenment. -- Rajneesh
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Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people. -- Rajneesh
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What is wrong with enjoying yourself? What is wrong in being happy? If there is anything wrong it is always in your unhappiness, because an unhappy person creates ripples of unhappiness all around him. Be happy! -- Rajneesh
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Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness. -- Rajneesh
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I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments. -- Rajneesh
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When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is not doing anything directly to your violence, not doing anything to your jealousy, to your hate. It
is simply brining light into your house, and the darkness disappears. -- Rajneesh
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A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man -- Rajneesh
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Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death. -- Rajneesh
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Become more watchful and anger will be less and greed will be less and jealousy will be less. -- Rajneesh
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You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind. -- Rajneesh
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"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes. -- Rajneesh
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And you yourself are recognizing that you are in 'relationship with a beautiful and powerful woman and we both definitely don't want to surrender to each other'. -- Rajneesh
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You can become happy just by deciding to be happy. -- Rajneesh
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Why is it so? If live is a gift, all that belongs to and is intrinsic to life is going to be a gift. You can wait for it, you can be receptive to it, you can remain in a surrendered mood, waiting, patient, but you cannot demand, and you cannot force. -- Rajneesh
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Be happy! and meditation will follow. Be happy, and religion will follow. Happiness is a basic condition. People become religious only when they are unhappy - then their religion is pseudo. Try to understand why you are unhappy. -- Rajneesh
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Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing. -- Rajneesh
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In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first thing and the last thing! You try it ... For no reason! Because there is no reason. Simply, you are again there, still alive - it is a miracle! -- Rajneesh
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Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred. -- Rajneesh
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In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you. -- Rajneesh
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Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away. -- Rajneesh
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Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder. -- Rajneesh
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The man who is egoless is the man who has no ideals. Let this be the criterion, and you have stumbled upon a fundamental. The man of no ego is the man of no ideals. Then how can the ego be created? - the very energy is missing. The energy comes out of friction, conflict, struggle, will. -- Rajneesh
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My own observation is: lovers don't surrender to each other, they surrender to something unknown that exists between them. They surrender to love - call it the 'god of love' - they both surrender to the god of love. Hence nobody's ego is fulfilled by your surrender; both the egos disappear in love. -- Rajneesh
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The people who crucified Jesus were not able to see his godliness at all; they could only see the mischief in him. -- Rajneesh
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You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress. -- Rajneesh
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When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle. -- Rajneesh
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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture. -- Rajneesh
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The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life. -- Rajneesh
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Advice is like food, and teaching is a menu. -- Rajneesh
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With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind. -- Rajneesh
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The terrorism is not in the bombs, in your hands; the terrorism is in your unconscious. -- Rajneesh
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Remember, if you have not known sadness together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial; your sadness is also superficial. Then you have been living on the surface; then you have known only the waves; you have not known the depth of the ocean that you are. -- Rajneesh
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Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems -- Rajneesh
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Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love. -- Rajneesh
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Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery. -- Rajneesh
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And remember one fundamental law of life. If they are hostile, they have hate towards us, sooner or later they are going to fall into my trap, because hate can turn into love very easily, just as love can become hate very easily. -- Rajneesh
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If you can grow in love, you will grow in awareness. If you grow in awareness, you will grow in love ... -- Rajneesh
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If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness. -- Rajneesh
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Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego. -- Rajneesh
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Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past. -- Rajneesh
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First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind. -- Rajneesh
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Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that thy are fools, so thy are not worried about what others think about them. -- Rajneesh
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Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance. -- Rajneesh
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Love is the fire in which everything is reduced to ashes. Only God will be saved. Only God cannot burn. -- Rajneesh
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Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution? -- Rajneesh
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Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be in a hurry to sacrifice it, otherwise the greatest egoist is born: the person who thinks he is humble, the person who thinks that he has no ego. -- Rajneesh
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Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don't react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before. -- Rajneesh
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This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else. -- Rajneesh
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The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being. -- Rajneesh
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When you have a heartfelt belly laugh, all parts of your being - the physiological, the pyschological, the spiritual - they all vibrate in one single tune. They all vibrate in harmony! -- Rajneesh
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Meditation cannot be purchased and no one can give it to you. You have to achieve it. It is not something outer, it is something inner, a growth, and that growth comes through awareness. -- Rajneesh
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If you become a little alert you will find love, light, laughter, everywhere. -- Rajneesh
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That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life. -- Rajneesh
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Attachment is misery, but from the very beginning the child is taught for attachment. The mother will say to the child, "Love me; I am your mother." The father will say, "Love me; I am your father" - as if someone is a father or a mother so he becomes automatically lovable. -- Rajneesh
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God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been there. Maybe even the poet does not know, but he has been touched by something from the beyond. -- Rajneesh
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Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously. -- Rajneesh
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God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it. -- Rajneesh
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Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece - unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique. -- Rajneesh
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If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if -- Rajneesh
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Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love. -- Rajneesh
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If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind. -- Rajneesh
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And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future. -- Rajneesh
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Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence. -- Rajneesh
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Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being - that of ecstasy; and out of ecstasy, whatever is created has also some flavor of it. -- Rajneesh
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Wherever you go, your mind will go with you. Your knowledge will go with you, your prejudices will go with you, your scriptures will go with you. Your idea that you are a Hindu or a Mohammedan will go with you. So what are you renouncing? -- Rajneesh
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I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. -- Rajneesh
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Always go with the river of life. Never try to go against the current, and never try to go faster than the river. Just move in absolute relaxation, so that each moment you are at home, at ease, at peace with existence. -- Rajneesh
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Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience. -- Rajneesh
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The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young. -- Rajneesh
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Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you. -- Rajneesh
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One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around. Marriage is for those who have experienced life in many ways, who have seen all the colors, the whole spectrum of it, and are now ready to settle. -- Rajneesh
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If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind. -- Rajneesh
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing. -- Rajneesh
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Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious. -- Rajneesh
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Grace is a feminine quality. -- Rajneesh
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All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness and quietness surrounds them. They are no longer feverish. What I am teaching here is really to turn the whole world feminine. -- Rajneesh
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Truth brings bliss, truth brings celebration. -- Rajneesh
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The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society, the collective has no soul; the soul belongs to the individual. Hence, those who belong to the collective are destroying every possibility of being souls. -- Rajneesh
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Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent. -- Rajneesh
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All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind. When there is no mind, there is no sinner and no saint, and the gift simply showers on you. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation opens the doors of your inner treasures, what Jesus calls the kingdom of god. Meditation is only a key, and keys are always small things, but they can unlock immense treasures. Everybody is born as a prince or a princess, but gets lost in the blind crowd of beggars. -- Rajneesh
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The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular. -- Rajneesh
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Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality ... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom. -- Rajneesh
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Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. -- Rajneesh
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You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor. -- Rajneesh
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Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are living in misery. Jealousy is a by-product of misery, ego, unconsciousness. -- Rajneesh
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Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point ... -- Rajneesh
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The future of humanity will move closer and closer toward the approach of Zen, because the meeting of the East and West is possible only through something like Zen, which is earthly and yet unearthly. -- Rajneesh
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Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. -- Rajneesh
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It is beautiful that there are three hundred religions in the world; more are needed ... Each person should have his own religion - there should be as many religions as there are people! -- Rajneesh
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Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory. -- Rajneesh
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Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom. -- Rajneesh
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The body sleeps, the heart sleeps, the mind sleeps - but you remain alert because you are nothing else but alertness. Everything else is a false identification. Awareness is your nature. The body is your abode. The mind is your computer. Awareness;s you, is your very being. -- Rajneesh
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Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality.
Totality will give you a different dimension. -- Rajneesh
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Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. -- Rajneesh
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The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it hankers for more prestige; if you have knowledge, it hankers for more knowledge. Mind lives in the 'more.' -- Rajneesh
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To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind. -- Rajneesh
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Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego. -- Rajneesh
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The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears. -- Rajneesh
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Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance. -- Rajneesh
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Withdraw your awareness from everywhere and just let it rest within yourself, and you have arrived home. -- Rajneesh
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The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse. -- Rajneesh
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Remember: life is a rhythm between day and night, summer and winter. It is a continuous rhythm. Never stop anywhere! Be moving! And the bigger the swing, the deeper your experience will be. -- Rajneesh
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My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding. -- Rajneesh
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Creativity means you have to disappear, you have to allow God to be. -- Rajneesh
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A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration. -- Rajneesh
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Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future. -- Rajneesh
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Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in. -- Rajneesh
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We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise. -- Rajneesh
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This mind is a prison. It cannot find any freedom anywhere. It must die before freedom comes to you. But we have taken the mind as us, we are identified with it. This death of mind never happens to us, it never occurs to us. -- Rajneesh
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A witnessing consciousness lives in life but with tremendous non-attachment, with great non-possessiveness; it possesses nothing. It lives totally, it lives passionately, but still knowing that I don't possess anything. -- Rajneesh
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God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine. -- Rajneesh
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Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees. -- Rajneesh
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Don't be attached to the things of the world, and don't be attached to the things of the other world, because things are things. It makes no difference whether they are of this world or the other world - attachment is the problem. -- Rajneesh
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Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties. -- Rajneesh
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That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions. -- Rajneesh
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You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. -- Rajneesh
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Relationship may be just out of fear, may not have anything to do with love. Relationship may be just a kind of security - financial or something else. The relationship is needed only because love is not there. Relationship is a substitute. -- Rajneesh
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Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet. -- Rajneesh
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Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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To be a sannyasin means you will be allowing freedom to the children, you will not impose anything on them, you will not impose your ideas; you will NOT like them to become imitators. Sannyas is just symbolic of a great freedom! -- Rajneesh
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The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now. -- Rajneesh
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I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring. -- Rajneesh
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If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else. -- Rajneesh
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One has to love unconditionally - the trees and the rocks and the sun and the moon and the people. -- Rajneesh
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Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside. -- Rajneesh
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And that third dimension brings bliss. Bliss is without any opposite to it. It is serene, tranquil, cool. It is ecstasy without any excitement. -- Rajneesh
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It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine. -- Rajneesh
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If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something. -- Rajneesh
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Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. -- Rajneesh
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Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go. -- Rajneesh
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People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell. -- Rajneesh
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Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation. -- Rajneesh
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This is something basic to be understood - the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity - only then can you dissolve it. A weak ego cannot be dissolved. And this becomes a problem. -- Rajneesh
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Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing. -- Rajneesh
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To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man. -- Rajneesh
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Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing. -- Rajneesh
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The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad. -- Rajneesh
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If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head. -- Rajneesh
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You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you. -- Rajneesh
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When you are feeling very passionate, lust, sex takes over. Just try to be tranquil in the breathing, and you feel sex has disappeared. -- Rajneesh
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This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in. -- Rajneesh
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Take it easy, and remember "Easy is Right." -- Rajneesh
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But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside. -- Rajneesh
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Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste. If you want the taste of the Tao you have to move to no-mind, to Meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Love is your song - you can sing it any time. It is like breathing. Nobody is going to take it away from you; nobody can take it away from you. -- Rajneesh
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So the first thing to be reminded of: love is never a relationship. Then something else is masquerading as love. Maybe you are searching for a husband or a wife - you are searching for some security, you are searching for some structure. A structured life is a murdered life. -- Rajneesh
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The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits and dependency. Only when nothing at all is lacking is there the possibility of total freedom. Freedom brings happiness. And happiness is salvation. -- Rajneesh
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Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage. -- Rajneesh
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Once the ego is not there, there is no expectation, frustration, no desire, no despair. Suddenly one finds oneself falling into a deep harmony with the cosmos. And that harmony is God; that harmony is nirvana; that harmony is tao. -- Rajneesh
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Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible. -- Rajneesh
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The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived. -- Rajneesh
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The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the world reflects you, it is a mirror. -- Rajneesh
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If you feel you are the body type, then running can be very beautiful for you: a four, five mile run every day. And make it a meditation. It will transform you completely. -- Rajneesh
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Only one thing I expect from all of you: to be yourself, to discover your inner beauty, your purity of consciousness, your hidden splendor - and spread it to as many people as possible. People are miserable. Help them to laugh a little, to sing a little, to dance a little. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life. -- Rajneesh
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There is no failure in life. It all depends how you take things. If you are desiring too much - you want to reach too high, and you cannot - then there is frustration and failure. But if you are not desiring anything and you are perfectly happy wherever you are, life is moment-to-moment victory. -- Rajneesh
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Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural. -- Rajneesh
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Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both. -- Rajneesh
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Death is the greatest illusion of all. -- Rajneesh
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Egolessness is contentment. -- Rajneesh
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Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it. -- Rajneesh
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It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case. But to see the celebration that is already happening at the deepest core of your being you will have to drop becoming, you will have to understand the futility of becoming. -- Rajneesh
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Respect Life and Life will respect You. Love Life and Love will shower Blessings on You. -- Rajneesh
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Seriousness is a disease. -- Rajneesh
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Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance! -- Rajneesh
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There are a few activities which are immensely valuable: laughter is one of these activities. Singing, dancing, are also of the same quality, but laughter is the quickest. -- Rajneesh
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Living in memories is an empty gesture. -- Rajneesh
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Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock. -- Rajneesh
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No, I don't want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes. -- Rajneesh
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"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question. -- Rajneesh
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God is a synergetic experience. Science can never reveal it, philosophy can never come to it - only a poetic approach, a very passive, very loving approach, can. -- Rajneesh
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The witnessing soul is like the sky. The birds fly in the sky but they don't leave any footprints ... [The] man who is awakened lives in such a way that he leaves no footprints ... He never looks ahead, he never looks back, he lives in the moment. -- Rajneesh
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If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you. -- Rajneesh
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An enlightened person is the richest person possible, but his richness comes from surrender, not from fight. He does not ... he has not any conflict with the whole. He has fallen in harmony, he is in a harmonia. -- Rajneesh
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When you open up to the ultimate, immediately it pours into you. You are no longer an ordinary human being - you have transcended. Your insight has become the insight of the whole existence. Now you are no longer separate - you have found your roots. -- Rajneesh
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The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to their children - their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete ambitions. In this way diseases pass on from one generation to another. -- Rajneesh
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Be loving towards yourself, then you will be able to love others too. -- Rajneesh
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The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost -- Rajneesh
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Moving from love, not fear - a beautiful idea, especially when applied literally to the body. -- Rajneesh
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The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness. -- Rajneesh
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It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad. -- Rajneesh
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The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future. -- Rajneesh
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Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good. -- Rajneesh
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Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside. -- Rajneesh
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What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience. -- Rajneesh
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Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you
to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable. -- Rajneesh
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A sannyasin has to relax to that total state of let-go when everything happens and nothing is done. -- Rajneesh
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As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration. -- Rajneesh
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Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery. -- Rajneesh
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You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty. -- Rajneesh
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When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you. -- Rajneesh
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Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness. -- Rajneesh
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Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass. -- Rajneesh
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Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go deep into your heart and into your being. -- Rajneesh
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Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be anywhere else, cannot suffer the sadness of failure - he is always successful, just like me. -- Rajneesh
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It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom. -- Rajneesh
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In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego. -- Rajneesh
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Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society. -- Rajneesh
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Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent. -- Rajneesh
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God is not a person but creativity, not a creator but creativity. -- Rajneesh
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Man is always exploited through fear. -- Rajneesh
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Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear. -- Rajneesh
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The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world. -- Rajneesh
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God is the source of all creativity. You can be creative only when you are EN RAPPORT with God. -- Rajneesh
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When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be. -- Rajneesh
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Man seeks answers from afar
Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets
but has not even gone into the silence of his being -- Rajneesh
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The whole art of meditation is, how to leave the personality easily, move to the center, and be not a person. Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them. -- Rajneesh
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Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist . -- Rajneesh
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Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously. ". -- Rajneesh
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Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment. -- Rajneesh
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Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence. -- Rajneesh
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There is no need to be more - you are enough. Everybody is enough. -- Rajneesh
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Don't analyze, celebrate it. -- Rajneesh
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Remember, meditation cannot be result-oriented; you simply meditate, that's all. -- Rajneesh
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I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a world which is one, a humanity which is one, a humanity which shares everything outer and inner a deep spiritual brotherhood. -- Rajneesh
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We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it ... -- Rajneesh
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Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor. -- Rajneesh
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I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think. -- Rajneesh
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Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage. -- Rajneesh
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Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move. -- Rajneesh
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Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that. -- Rajneesh
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"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body. -- Rajneesh
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The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. -- Rajneesh
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One of the greatest problems that money creates is that you never know whether you are loved or your money is loved, whether you are desirable or your money is desirable. And it is so difficult to figure out, that one would have preferred not to have had money; at least life would have been simple. -- Rajneesh
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Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful. -- Rajneesh
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Yes, it is better to look from the window than not to look at all, but to look through the window cannot be compared to the windowless sky. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child. -- Rajneesh
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[M]editation is not just being silent - that is only one part of it ... [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of this world. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is enough. Everything else follows on its own. -- Rajneesh
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Anger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains -- Rajneesh
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Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself. -- Rajneesh
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Children can be taught meditation more easily because they are not yet spoiled. When you have been spoiled the hard work is to help you to unlearn. -- Rajneesh
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Mind is a broken mirror. -- Rajneesh
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To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. -- Rajneesh
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The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness. -- Rajneesh
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Your absence is the presence of godliness. -- Rajneesh
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Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom. -- Rajneesh
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Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you. -- Rajneesh
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Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion's roar. -- Rajneesh
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Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality. -- Rajneesh
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The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state. -- Rajneesh
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Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God. -- Rajneesh
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The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real. -- Rajneesh
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It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy ... -- Rajneesh
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The same energy not allowed to move becomes stagnant, stale, creates sadness -- Rajneesh
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To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless. -- Rajneesh
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Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one. -- Rajneesh
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Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer. -- Rajneesh
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Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to become a child again, how to start existing without mind again, how to be here without any mind. -- Rajneesh
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To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own. -- Rajneesh
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Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And vice versa is also true: silence cannot exist without creativity. -- Rajneesh
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Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation. -- Rajneesh
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You cannot drop the ego. Once you start trying to drop the ego you will get in a very deep mess; you will become more and more worried and puzzled. And this is not the way to get rid of the ego. The only way to get rid of the ego is to look at it. -- Rajneesh
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The mind always wants to choose. The mind lives through choice. If you don't choose the mind drops. This is the way of Lao Tzu. How to drop the mind? - don't choose! That's why he never prescribes any meditation, because then there is no need for any meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health. -- Rajneesh
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Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality. -- Rajneesh
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I am here to help you to be total wherever you are; in whatsoever state you are - live that state totally. It is only in living a thing totally that one transcends it. -- Rajneesh
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When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together ... If you are still thinking. laughter will be just so-so ... It will be a crippled laughter. -- Rajneesh
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Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation. -- Rajneesh
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Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts happening by itself. -- Rajneesh
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Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere. -- Rajneesh
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Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a flowering. It cannot. Out of the roots of exploitation how can ecstasy be born? -- Rajneesh
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By and by ... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine. -- Rajneesh
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Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming. -- Rajneesh
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My religion is a religion of sharing, not of following -- Rajneesh
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Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you. -- Rajneesh
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Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable. -- Rajneesh
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You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate. -- Rajneesh
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Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness. -- Rajneesh
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There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all. It is unlimited silence but not dead, it is alive with songs of its own, with dances of its own. -- Rajneesh
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Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears. -- Rajneesh
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Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things ... Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. -- Rajneesh
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To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal. -- Rajneesh
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Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas! -- Rajneesh
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Don't hanker for the other world. Live this world, and live it with intensity, with passion. Live it with totality, with your whole being. And out of that whole trust, out of that life of passion, love, and joy, you will become able to go beyond. -- Rajneesh
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Love is an infinite sky! -- Rajneesh
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If you are involved totally, sex disappears because sex is a safety valve. When you have energy unused, then sex becomes a haunting thing around you. When total energy is used, sex disappears. And that is the state of brahmacharya, of virya, of all your potential energy flowering. -- Rajneesh
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Silence is the space where man wakes up. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent -- Rajneesh
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The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul ... it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery. -- Rajneesh
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Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing. -- Rajneesh
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You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations. -- Rajneesh
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Existence does not listen to your desires, and does not follow your desires, however beautiful and however pious. Existence goes on in its own way. -- Rajneesh
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Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death. -- Rajneesh
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The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness. -- Rajneesh
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When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body. -- Rajneesh
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The future is needed as a space to project your desires. To project, future is needed. -- Rajneesh
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Life is a constant challenge to know oneself. -- Rajneesh
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A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology. -- Rajneesh
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If you are a man of prayer, existence appears as God, as personal. If you are a man of meditation, existence is impersonal, just a wholeness, a divineness. For the man of prayer there is God; for the man of awareness there is godliness but no God. -- Rajneesh
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Awareness means you come with an inner light, you move fully alert. Each step is taken in awareness - the walking, the coming, the sitting - everything is done in full awareness. -- Rajneesh
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Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way. -- Rajneesh
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If you live with alertness, you live rightly.
If you live in imitation, you live wrongly.
To me there is only one sin:
And that is not to be yourself.
And to me there is only one virtue:
And that is to know yourself. -- Rajneesh
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In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird. -- Rajneesh
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You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled. -- Rajneesh
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The whole existence is a temple ... the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation. -- Rajneesh
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My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus. -- Rajneesh
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When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject. -- Rajneesh
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Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness. -- Rajneesh
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Every action is self-perpetuating, every thought is self-perpetuating. Once you cooperate with it, you are giving energy to it. Sooner or later it will become habitual. You will do it and you will not be the doer; you will do it just because of the force of habit. -- Rajneesh
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My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently -- Rajneesh
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Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you - silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to bring it out in life. Share it, because everything shared grows fast. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you. -- Rajneesh
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Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open. -- Rajneesh
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People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing, they become more alive, they become a joy to see, a joy to be with; they are a song, they are a dance. -- Rajneesh
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Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a great understanding that, "I am not." Surrender is an insight that the ego exists not, that, "I am not separate." Surrender is not an act but an understanding. -- Rajneesh
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Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind. Communion means I am not a mind, you are not a mind - just your heart melting into my heart, no words. -- Rajneesh
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Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it. -- Rajneesh
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Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind. -- Rajneesh
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Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration.That's our natural state - to celebrate - as natural as it is for the trees to bloom, for birds to sing, for rivers to flow to the ocean. Celebration is a natural state. -- Rajneesh
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God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal. -- Rajneesh
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I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra. -- Rajneesh
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Whenever you feel happiness it is always from the inner. Then mind immediately jumps in and takes control and says, 'It is because of me.' When you are in love, it is like death, you feel blissful. Immediately mind comes in and says, 'Okay, this is me, this is because of me.' -- Rajneesh
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Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive ... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody. -- Rajneesh
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Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing. -- Rajneesh
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Zen is the most scientific method to inquire into your consciousness. It takes you beyond mind into a space called no-mind. No self, but pure awareness, and you have a taste of eternity and immortality. -- Rajneesh
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If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all. -- Rajneesh
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A woman is more humble, more grateful, more loving. -- Rajneesh
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People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind. -- Rajneesh
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Without Jesus they were the great priests of the temple; with Jesus suddenly they were nobodies. In the presence of Jesus there was God himself and all the priests felt their glory had been taken away. -- Rajneesh
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Seeking you go astray seeking you go in dreams seeking you go somewhere else and truth is here. Seeking, you go then; and truth is NOW -- Rajneesh
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Whatever happened yesterday was the past. -- Rajneesh
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Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires. -- Rajneesh
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The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in thoughts, which are nothing but soap bubbles - or perhaps soap bubbles have more substance to them than your thoughts. -- Rajneesh
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How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact. -- Rajneesh
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Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful. -- Rajneesh
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All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust. -- Rajneesh
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While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin. -- Rajneesh
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So I am not teaching you to be good, I am not teaching you to be bad; I am teaching you only to be whole. To be whole is to be healthy and to be healthy is to be holy. -- Rajneesh
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Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply go on following their nature. -- Rajneesh
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Only one thing is going to remain with you: that is your witnessing, that is your watchfulness. This watchfulness is meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other. -- Rajneesh
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Live without expectations and there will be no frustration. -- Rajneesh
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Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists. -- Rajneesh
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Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation. -- Rajneesh
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We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means. -- Rajneesh
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Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense. -- Rajneesh
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Only a fulfilled heart can pray, because only a fulfilled heart can be grateful and can feel the grace descending. -- Rajneesh
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Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished. -- Rajneesh
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You are creating your own hell. -- Rajneesh
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Look deep into your throbbing life and you will find the quality of the divine. You will not find a God but you will find a godliness, a truth, an awakening, a buddha. -- Rajneesh
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Ordinary is the door for extraordinary. -- Rajneesh
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Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life. -- Rajneesh
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When you don't have any money, any things, any house - if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have everything and you remain unattached - a beggar in the palace - then something very deep has been attained. -- Rajneesh
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Let sannyas be the turning point. That's what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards. -- Rajneesh
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Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation. -- Rajneesh
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Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen. -- Rajneesh
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Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures. -- Rajneesh
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Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching. -- Rajneesh
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Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality. -- Rajneesh
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If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against. -- Rajneesh
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Whatsoever you are doing ... be double-arrowed. -- Rajneesh
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Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment. -- Rajneesh
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This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural. -- Rajneesh
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All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure. -- Rajneesh
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Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song. -- Rajneesh
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God is the collective ego of the world -- Rajneesh
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Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel
the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance. -- Rajneesh
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Only the inner silence is yours. No-one gave it to you. You were born with it and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you. You have been conditioned to them. -- Rajneesh
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Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking. -- Rajneesh
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If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy - it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine. -- Rajneesh
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Life is a balance between rest and movement. -- Rajneesh
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In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored. -- Rajneesh
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And remember, that is the criterion. If a person can enjoy and celebrate his death, that shows he has lived rightly; there is no other criterion. Your death will prove how you have lived. -- Rajneesh
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Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality. -- Rajneesh
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Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology. -- Rajneesh
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Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers. -- Rajneesh
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Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else. -- Rajneesh
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Anger is fear in disguise. -- Rajneesh
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All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are people who remain miserable even when they are living in marble palaces. It all depends on you. -- Rajneesh
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Only people who carry the opinions of others need the support of others. -- Rajneesh
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If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance. -- Rajneesh
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Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration. -- Rajneesh
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If you fight sex, sex becomes the center. Then, continuously, you are engaged in it, occupied with it. It becomes like a wound. And wherever you look, that wound immediately projects, and whatsoever you see becomes sexual. -- Rajneesh
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Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is! -- Rajneesh
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You cannot lose your real treasure. -- Rajneesh
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Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have a long face, it is bubbling with joy, radiating with an inner joyousness. -- Rajneesh
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Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. -- Rajneesh
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When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual. -- Rajneesh
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Buddha says if you surrender the ego, if you surrender yourself, you come in a harmony with the law and everything starts happening on its own. You have but to surrender. If you are ready to disappear, you will be full of the law and the law will take care. -- Rajneesh
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You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way. -- Rajneesh
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So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man. -- Rajneesh
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Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will stink. He flows no more. -- Rajneesh
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You have to be again innocent, ignorant, not knowing anything, so that the questions can start arising again. Again the inquiry becomes alive, and with the inquiry becoming alive you cannot vegetate. Then life becomes an exploration, an adventure. -- Rajneesh
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Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations. -- Rajneesh
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Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness. -- Rajneesh
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The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then, its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy. -- Rajneesh
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In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is a by-product of the ego and when the ego disappears jealousy disappears. You cannot offend a buddha. Whatsoever you do you cannot offend him. -- Rajneesh
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Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life. -- Rajneesh
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Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path -- Rajneesh
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Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going ... still, to logic it is blind. -- Rajneesh
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You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it. -- Rajneesh
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The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you. -- Rajneesh
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Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life. -- Rajneesh
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Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher. -- Rajneesh
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Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone. -- Rajneesh
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The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. -- Rajneesh
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Fear comes from the mind, love comes from your heart; listen to the heart. -- Rajneesh
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Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer. -- Rajneesh
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Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just dream-negating devices. -- Rajneesh
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Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is. -- Rajneesh
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It is your attachment that creates hell. -- Rajneesh
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Remain a witness to your emotions as if from a great distance an eagles eye view -- Rajneesh
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Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state of peace, of silence-a meditative state. It is spiritual. -- Rajneesh
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Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating. -- Rajneesh
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Surrendering means non-desiring. -- Rajneesh
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Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released -- Rajneesh
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Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is. -- Rajneesh
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And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise. and knowledgeable people are sad, they are bound to be sad because all their knowledge is borrowed. There can be no song in it. -- Rajneesh
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If you want to possess things - money; if you want to possess yourself - meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning. -- Rajneesh
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Dance as if this is the last dance. Dance with abandon, holding nothing back. That will bring transformation to your being, and a possibility of transformation for other people too. -- Rajneesh
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Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love. -- Rajneesh
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Illusions are bound to be shattered -- Rajneesh
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Your desires are immense, almost infinite. Because of your desires life becomes a competition, and wherever there is competition, there is anxiety and angst; and at the end everybody is aware deep down there is death. -- Rajneesh
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Sannyas is the art of flying ... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that is needed is a state of let-go. All that is needed is a readiness to be possessed by the upward dimension, a readiness to open to the sky. -- Rajneesh
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God cannot be found outside you, because there is no God who can ever be outside you. God is the ultimate fragrance of your consciousness. When your consciousness opens like a lotus, the fragrance that is released is God - better to call it godliness. -- Rajneesh
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Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something. -- Rajneesh
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If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too. -- Rajneesh
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When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens. -- Rajneesh
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What you eat is not the goal. What you are is the goal. -- Rajneesh
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The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows. -- Rajneesh
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Peace follows love energy like a shadow. -- Rajneesh
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Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem! -- Rajneesh
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This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy. -- Rajneesh
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If you can believe in God you can believe in a witch, it is the same package. If you can believe in one kind of nonsense, you can believe in all kinds of nonsense. -- Rajneesh
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The mind is just like a crowd; thoughts are the individuals. And because thoughts are there continuously you think the process is substantial. Drop each individual thought and finally nothing is left. There is no mind as such, only thinking. -- Rajneesh
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The more mind is filled with chattering, more sex has appeal. -- Rajneesh
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That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha. -- Rajneesh
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You can change your attachment from this to that, but you will be in misery. Attachment creates misery. -- Rajneesh
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Today it may seem that your anger is very strong, how can meditation break it? But it breaks - it has always broken. Rock is very strong and meditation is very delicate, but this is the mystery of life - the continuity of the delicate can break the strongest and the hardest. -- Rajneesh
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Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody. -- Rajneesh
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When you feel angry, there is no need to be angry against someone; just be angry. Let it be a meditation. Close the room, sit by yourself, and let the anger come up as much as it can. If you feel like beating, beat a pillow. -- Rajneesh
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How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself? -- Rajneesh
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Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both. A life only of blissfulness will have extension, but will not have depth. A life of only sadness will have depth, but will not have extension. -- Rajneesh
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Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right. -- Rajneesh
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I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds ... -- Rajneesh
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Devotion has its own strange ways. It is not something rational, logical, something that can be explained to you. But it is something, if you go on growing from a student into a disciple, from a disciple into a devotee, and you come so close to the master that there is no distinction at all. -- Rajneesh
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Half of humanity has been accepting the inner world but denying the outer world. -- Rajneesh
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Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen who you are. Then there is nothing left except to share your being with others. -- Rajneesh
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Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance. -- Rajneesh
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Every answer will make more questions -- Rajneesh
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Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha. -- Rajneesh
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Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity. -- Rajneesh
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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. -- Rajneesh
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If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. -- Rajneesh
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The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present. -- Rajneesh
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Love can never possess. Love is giving freedom to the other. Love is an unconditional gift, it is not a bargain. -- Rajneesh
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This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got. -- Rajneesh
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Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness. -- Rajneesh
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Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation . -- Rajneesh
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Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears. -- Rajneesh
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In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes no difference; death happens equally. In life, equality is impossible; in death, inequality is impossible. Become aware of it, contemplate it. -- Rajneesh
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God is creativity, not a Creator. -- Rajneesh
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From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time. -- Rajneesh
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When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor. -- Rajneesh
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As you walk, you simply walk. Don't go ahead, don't jump here and there. Mind always go ahead or lag behind. Remain with the moment. -- Rajneesh
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely. -- Rajneesh
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When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed. -- Rajneesh
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Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything ... -- Rajneesh
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Sexuality is possible without any understanding, without any meditation. Love is possible only with understanding. Compassion is possible only with understanding and meditation, understanding and awareness. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible. Meditation is not one pole: it is the absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego trips. -- Rajneesh
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Don't get attached to anything. -- Rajneesh
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Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom. -- Rajneesh
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The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES! -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself. -- Rajneesh
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Every moment you are different because you are not
and unless you are, the divine cannot happen to you. To whom can it happen? You are not there. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you. -- Rajneesh
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Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about the path. -- Rajneesh
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The dance of the flower in the wind, in the sun, in the rain, cannot be understood by the head; the heart has to be open for it. -- Rajneesh
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The master is already merged into existence. Merging into the master you are really merging with existence itself. The master functions only as a door, and a door is an emptiness; you pass through it. The master is the door to the beyond. -- Rajneesh
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Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it. -- Rajneesh
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It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error. -- Rajneesh
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Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right. -- Rajneesh
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I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes. -- Rajneesh
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There is no God other than life itself. -- Rajneesh
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Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and nowhere else. Then you are awake. -- Rajneesh
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I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear. -- Rajneesh
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You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship. -- Rajneesh
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Relax, let go. But remember only one thing: You are a witness. -- Rajneesh
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Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light, and anything belonging to the world of darkness starts disappearing. Ego is nothing but darkness. -- Rajneesh
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Be very cautious about your object of love because that is going to decide your destiny -- Rajneesh
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Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics. -- Rajneesh
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God is not repetitive; His creativity is infinite. -- Rajneesh
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We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen. -- Rajneesh
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Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy. -- Rajneesh
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Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face. -- Rajneesh
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Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular. -- Rajneesh
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If you really want to create peace on the earth, create peace in your heart, in your being. That is the right place to begin with ... and then spread and radiate peace and love. -- Rajneesh
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Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted. -- Rajneesh
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It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself. -- Rajneesh
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Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible. -- Rajneesh
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Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential. -- Rajneesh
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The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures; there is no other way. -- Rajneesh
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The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it. -- Rajneesh
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We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone. -- Rajneesh
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Belief is a deception you play upon yourself ... -- Rajneesh
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Real creativity comes only out of silence. -- Rajneesh
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Never feel lonely. You are never lonely. At the deepest core of your being, God resides. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible. -- Rajneesh
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God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance. -- Rajneesh
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Just a little detachment from the ego is needed. -- Rajneesh
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Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor. -- Rajneesh
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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 doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort. -- Rajneesh
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To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it. -- Rajneesh
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Without possessions, success, fame; who are you? -- Rajneesh
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You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness. -- Rajneesh
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Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you. -- Rajneesh
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Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special. -- Rajneesh
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If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it. -- Rajneesh
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The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness. -- Rajneesh
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All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go. -- Rajneesh
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If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally. -- Rajneesh
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Don't cling to anything. Clinging is the cause of our being unconscious. -- Rajneesh
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This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it? -- Rajneesh
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Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened - because only then his pure genius, his pure individuality, uncontaminated, unpolluted, is revealed. -- Rajneesh
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The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock. -- Rajneesh
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Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others. -- Rajneesh
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When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders -- Rajneesh
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Through true love, you touch inner completeness. -- Rajneesh
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I am something that was. and I am something that not yet. -- Rajneesh
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There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you. -- Rajneesh
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I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it. -- Rajneesh
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That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration. -- Rajneesh
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Knowledge is not information, it's transformation. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature. -- Rajneesh
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Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is. -- Rajneesh
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Truth is pure awareness. -- Rajneesh
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In meditation, whatever happens is bound to be expressed in creativity. -- Rajneesh
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You are angry, and you watch it. You are not just angry, a new element is introduced into it: you are watching it. And the miracle is that if you can watch anger, the anger disappears without being repressed. -- Rajneesh
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Knowledge always liberates. -- Rajneesh
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I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering -- Rajneesh
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It has happened, women have helped their husbands, sacrificed their whole lives, never thought about themselves. Their surrender, their devotion to their lovers has been total. In this totality, they have achieved before their lover has. -- Rajneesh
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When I say that you are gods and goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite. -- Rajneesh
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You can succeed only with God, never against him. You can succeed only with the whole, never against it. -- Rajneesh
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Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation. -- Rajneesh
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And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.' -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you - your being. -- Rajneesh
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When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation. -- Rajneesh
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A creativity that comes out of meditative innocence, of meditative purity. And a real creator is possible only through meditation. -- Rajneesh
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Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very seed. Beware of it! -- Rajneesh
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Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then the birth will be conscious, because the death is the one side and the birth is the other side of the same coin. -- Rajneesh
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Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within. -- Rajneesh
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The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have been for lives upon lives. The process of meditation does not add anything to you; it only takes away what is wrong, cuts it away, sheds it off. -- Rajneesh
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Each moment brings new surprises to the one who has no expectations, who comes with an absolutely open mind. Then incredible things start happening. Even if you had wanted them you could not have expected them; you could not have found yourself worthy enough to expect them. -- Rajneesh
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I am the rich man's guru. -- Rajneesh
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In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve. -- Rajneesh
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To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God. -- Rajneesh
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Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment. -- Rajneesh
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Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment. -- Rajneesh
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Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity.
Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state. -- Rajneesh
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Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings. -- Rajneesh
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In rain during a dark night, enter that darkness. -- Rajneesh
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Have you not watched it yourself? Whenever you are total in something there is celebration. -- Rajneesh
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Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetarianism. It simply means: don't destroy life. It simply means: life is God - avoid destroying it, otherwise you will be destroying the very ecology. -- Rajneesh
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A religious person is a desireless person. -- Rajneesh
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Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. -- Rajneesh
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You ask me, "Will you say something more about relaxation? I am aware of a tension deep in the core of me and suspect that I have probably never been totally relaxed." -- Rajneesh
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Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness. -- Rajneesh
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When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration. -- Rajneesh
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Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be. -- Rajneesh
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All your personalities are absolute cover-ups, hiding your individuality. -- Rajneesh
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Nobody asked you about being born, nobody is going to ask you when the time comes for you to be taken away. Then why be worried? Birth happened to you; death will happen to you; who are you to come in between? -- Rajneesh
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The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires. -- Rajneesh
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Seriousness is a sickness ... Existense is pure playfulness -- Rajneesh
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Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect. -- Rajneesh
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A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious. -- Rajneesh
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When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance. -- Rajneesh
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[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic. -- Rajneesh
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You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear. -- Rajneesh
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And the miracle is: if you can go into your suffering as a meditation, watching, to the deepest roots of it, just through watching, it disappears. You don't have to do anything more than watching. If you have found the authentic cause by your watching, the suffering will disappear. -- Rajneesh
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We where created to discover Love - the only reality. -- Rajneesh
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Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and sing to such an extent that you disappear in your dancing, in your singing, in your celebration ... is the only true religion I know of. -- Rajneesh
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Bliss follows witnessing - and that is going to be your meditation. Witness your body as separate, witness your mind as separate. Remain rooted in witnessing: "I am only a watcher." That is going to transform your whole life, it is going to give you the ultimate. -- Rajneesh
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Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible. -- Rajneesh
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Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours. -- Rajneesh
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For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality. -- Rajneesh
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Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope. -- Rajneesh
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Only silence communicates the truth as it is. -- Rajneesh
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[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace. -- Rajneesh
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If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner. -- Rajneesh
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Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul. -- Rajneesh
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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. -- Rajneesh
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Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all. -- Rajneesh
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But Jesus has been depicted as a serious man. And Christians say he never laughed. Then what is the function of an Enlightened man? If Jesus cannot laugh, then who is going to laugh in this world? -- Rajneesh
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People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility. -- Rajneesh
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People are not things, you cannot have ownership. -- Rajneesh
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I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself. -- Rajneesh
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Mind is not your intelligence. -- Rajneesh
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Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual. -- Rajneesh
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Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof; don't choose. The moment you choose, you have fallen into the trap of the world, or into the trap of the mind. -- Rajneesh
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To my understanding, sex is your only energy, it is life energy. What you do with it depends on you. It can become sin, and it can become also your highest peak of consciousness. It all depends on you how you use the energy. -- Rajneesh
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Bliss needs to be shared; it exists only in sharing. -- Rajneesh
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My people worship, but not in a church. They worship the beauty of existence. -- Rajneesh
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My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling. -- Rajneesh
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To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving. -- Rajneesh
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If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. -- Rajneesh
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Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves. -- Rajneesh
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I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration. -- Rajneesh
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Only authentic human beings can create a society which will be joyous, ecstatic, and in the real sense, human. -- Rajneesh
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Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take the form of religion, but the politics is there. Then you are competing with other saints. -- Rajneesh
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That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration. -- Rajneesh
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Transcendence of sex is a totally different phenomenon from the suppression of it. But suppression can give you the feeling that you have transcended. -- Rajneesh
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Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers. -- Rajneesh
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Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life. -- Rajneesh
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If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others. -- Rajneesh
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In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious - more conscious than ever. -- Rajneesh
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Individuality is that which you bring into the world. -- Rajneesh
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Yesterday you were thinking about today because then it was tomorrow; now it is today and you are thinking about tomorrow, and when the tomorrow comes, it will become today- because anything that exists, exists here and now, it cannot exist otherwise. -- Rajneesh
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The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are. -- Rajneesh
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I want my people to understand that because only man is capable to laugh, that means laughter is the highest point of consciousness, the highest point of understanding, the highest point of evolution. That's why I have started calling laughter "the prayer time." -- Rajneesh
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Love is not a higher quality than truth. -- Rajneesh
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We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his body behind clothes? -- Rajneesh
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Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings. -- Rajneesh
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Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin. -- Rajneesh
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That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived bcms devil. -- Rajneesh
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Fighting with anybody is very dangerous because you become like your enemy. -- Rajneesh
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The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the future. It is so concentrated in this moment that if you can be in this moment, all that you are seeking and searching will be fulfilled. This moment is the door to the divine. -- Rajneesh
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Anger simply shows that something in you is hurt, some wound is there. -- Rajneesh
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Worship the Silent Space in you. -- Rajneesh
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Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative. -- Rajneesh
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Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also. -- Rajneesh
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man. -- Rajneesh