Quotes from Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

Belief is a deception you play upon yourself....

The so-called transcendental meditation is nothing but a psychological tranquilizer. It is nothing—just a tranquilizer. It helps, but it is good for sleep, not for meditation. You can sleep well, a more calm sleep will be there. It is good, but it is not meditation at all. If you repeat a word constantly it creates a certain boredom, and boredom is good for sleep.

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.

[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.

Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.

Living in memories is an empty gesture.

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

Serenity is the flavor of meditation...

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.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

To be present is to be prayerful.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.

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.

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.

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.

Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of.

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.

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide.