Quotes About Rajneesh

#1. Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.

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#2. Osho Bhagwam Shree Rajneesh
"Life begins where fear ends." osho

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#3. The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

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#8. This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable ...

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#16. 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.

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#17. [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.

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. 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.

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#22. Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right.

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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.

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#25. 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?

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#26. 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.

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#27. You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share - and sharing is beautiful.

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#28. Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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#31. 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!

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#32. Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.

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#33. Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

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#34. Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.

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

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#36. God is not a person but creativity, not a creator but creativity.

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#37. 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.

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#38. Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.

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#39. 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.

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#40. 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.

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#41. 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.

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

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#43. 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?

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#44. 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.

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#45. Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

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#46. Being aware of awareness itself only consciousness can get you there to the truth of yourself the immortal inner being ...

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#47. Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.

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#48. 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.

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#49. 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.

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#50. Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.

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#51. 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.

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#52. 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.

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#53. 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.

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#54. 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

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#55. 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.

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#56. 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.

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#57. True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

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#58. The same energy not allowed to move becomes stagnant, stale, creates sadness

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#59. 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.

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#60. 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.

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#61. When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.

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#62. 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.

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#63. Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!

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#64. If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.

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#65. 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.

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#66. You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

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#67. Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

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#68. Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible.

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#69. 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 ...

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#70. I am here to destroy your personality, to give birth to your individuality.

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#71. 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.

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#72. I am something that was. and I am something that not yet.

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#73. 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.

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#74. There is no need to be more - you are enough. Everybody is enough.

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#75. It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.

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#76. 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.

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#77. Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.

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#78. There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

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#79. Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.

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#80. In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

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#81. 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.

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#82. Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.

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#83. Remember, Jesus says: Those who are the last here will be the first in my kingdom of God.

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#84. Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.

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#85. Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

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#86. Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

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#87. All desiring is desiring for the futile. It leads only into frustration.

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#88. Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

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#89. 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.

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#90. Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.

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#91. 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.

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#92. Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.

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#93. 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.

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#94. 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.

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#95. Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent

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#96. 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.

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#97. Transcendence means going beyond duality. Attachment means remaining within duality.

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#98. 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.

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#99. My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.

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#100. If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

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