Rajneesh Quotes

It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

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.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

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.

Meditation changes your character.

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Something I practice everyday is Tonglin. It's Tibetan for taking and receiving.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

Spirituality is a great bent of mind. It gives peace and hope to me.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.