Rajneesh Quotes

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.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

The only journey is the one within.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

Enlightenment is awakened awareness.

For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized.

Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

What you seek, you already are.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.