Bhagwan Rajneesh Quotes (53 Quotes)

Laughter brings you to reality as it is. The world is a play of God, a cosmic joke. And unless you understand it as a cosmic joke you will never be able to understand the ultimate mystery.

It is true that nothing exists without a thought first, but the idea that thought comes from form is backwards.

I am not saying believe what I say, I am not saying accept what I say. I am saying there is no need to be in a hurry to accept or reject. First at least listen - why be in such a hurry

I am not here to give you a dogma. A dogma makes one certain.

I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom.

My whole effort is to help you release the energy called love-intelligence. If love-intelligence is released, you are healed.

When you are witnessing, the mind remains, but not constantly working. Your identity is broken.

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.

My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any relationship. They will be loving to each other, but not being possessive of each other. They will be sharing with each other all their joys and all their blessings, but never even in their dreams thinking of dominating, thinking of enslaving the other person.

Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

So when I say it I mean it, and it is not a hypothesis. I have experienced It that way. The mind can be used and can be put aside. It is an instrument, a very beautiful instrument no need to be so obsessed with it. No need to be so fixed, fixated with it.

The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival...because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around.

... And listen carefully, when you don't need the other, you can love. And that love will not bring misery.

Always remember that I am a poet, not a philosopher. Remember always that I am not a missionary, but a musician playing on the harp of your heart.

I am neither for this nor for that. I would like you to become so capable that you can remain in the marketplace and yet meditative.

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.

Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of simple things.

If I want to walk I use my legs, if I don't want to walk I don't use my legs. Exactly in the same way you can use the mind logically if you are trying to know about matter. It is perfectly right, it fits there. And when you are moving inwards, put it aside. Now legs are not needed thinking is not needed. Now you need a deep silent state of no-thought.

Doubt helps your intelligence, sharpens it. Questioning makes you aware of many possibilities of which you may not have been aware before.

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.

This is the mysterious world which is available to you if you can pass the jungle of questions and doubts and reach into the clear, where there are no questions and doubts, and no answers either. Just you are in utter silence, with immense clarity, with tremendous sharpness.

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

The root problem of all problems is mind itself. The first thing to be understood is what this mind is, of what stuff it is made whether it is an entity or just a process whether it is substantial, or just dreamlike. And unless you know the nature of the mind, you will not be able to solve any problems of your life.

The world is not a problem the problem is your unawareness

A person can use his mind when working on matter then logic is a great instrument. And the same person can put aside the mind when he moves into his meditation chamber and moves into the no-mind. Because mind is not you -- it is just an instrument just like my hand, just like my legs.

My message of love is absolutely simple nothing can be more simple than that.

Drop this ego, drop this idea that you are somebody special.

I am not going to waste my sleep because millions of people are misunderstanding me.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself anything less is theory, speculation, and belief.

In pain you can be more meditative than in pleasure.

I am nobody's disciple. I don't belong to any belief system. I love people from all over the world and I never compare them. They are all unique, a Zarathustra is a Zarathustra, a Mahavira is a Mahavira, a Buddha is a Buddha, a Jesus is a Jesus, a Moses is a Moses... they are so unique that you should not make one of them a criterion that everybody else has to fit with.

I'm not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Yes, a map is not needed great passion, great desire to discover is needed. Then I leave you alone. Then you go on your own.

A mother is something absolutely new.

If what I am saying has anything of truth in it, it will be understood by your heart. But the mind has to give way.

I am here simply to make you alert and aware. That is, to be here now - with all the insecurity that life is with all the uncertainty that life is with all the danger that life is.

Mind is really a tape recorder. But it is not continuously on, not twenty-four hours on. When needed, the witness, the man of meditation, the man of awareness, is capable of putting the mind on or off. He puts it on when there is some need....

The stronger a person's I is, the smaller his capacity to become one with anybody. The I is a wall in between it proclaims itself. Its proclaimation is You are you and I am I. There is a distance between the two. Then no matter how much I love you, I may

With me, a new chapter in the history of consciousness begins.

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

Going beyond needs, demands, desires, love becomes a very soft sharing, a great understanding.

Become innocent and you will be bridged with God.

We where created to discover Love - the only reality.

One should become so capable that even the closest instrument of mind can be put aside and can be put off. It can be done, it has been done, but it has not been done on a great scale. But more and more it will be done. This is what I am trying to do here with you.

My vision of a real humanity is of a world consisting not of families, not of nations, not of races, but only of individuals.

When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.

I am not interested at all to convert anybody to my ideology - I don't have any.

We transcend the illusions of body and mind, and the separation perpetuated by these illusions. In this dimension, we re-discover the nature of Love for the One Spirit, of which we are all a part.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable...

But your mind is very complex, very tricky. It makes simple things complicated. -- that's its work. And for centuries it has been trained for only one thing, to make things so complicated that your life becomes impossible.

I would like people to live at ease, with all that is available on the outside. Don't be in a hurry, because anything left unlived will pull you back again. Finish it. And then there is no need to escape from your house or from your bank account, because they are no longer a burden on you. Perhaps they have a certain utility, but nothing is wrong with them.