Quotes from Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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

Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.

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.

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed.

No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.

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.

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.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

All these things have been created in your mind by conditioning, by programming; that's what the society has done to you. We have lived the whole of history in an ugly way.

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

Through meditation one discovers one's own light. That light you can call your soul, your self, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you can remain just silent because it has no name. It is a nameless experience, tremendously beautiful, ecstatic, utterly silent, but it gives you the taste of eternity, of timelessness, of something beyond death.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

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.

Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.

Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.