Rajneesh Quotes

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

In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

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

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

Your nature is the Buddha.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

I got started on my spiritual path when I was a kid. My mom taught me how to meditate and brought me to ashrams and spiritual circles.