Quotes from Rajneesh

Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

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.

Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance.

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.

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

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.

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.

That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

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

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.

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.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

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.

Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

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.

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

Anger is fear in disguise.

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.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

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.

Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.