Rajneesh Quotes

All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.

Relax, let go. But remember only one thing: You are a witness.

I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

Meditation is really letting go of all the thought processes or 'mind traffic' that gets in the way of just whatever is between you and space and consciousness.

I do a form of meditation every day anyway.

I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.

You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

The inner experience of meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The outer trappings - how one sits, breathes, dresses, and so forth - are irrelevant.

We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything - not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is. That is what we are doing when we sit down to meditate. That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.

Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument. If you do this consistently - if you stop fighting and resisting - you will fully experience the present, which is a gift. Someone once told me, "The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called 'the present'."

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

People meditate themselves because they are just trying to feel better, and transcendental meditation is a natural mental technique that you can perform and that provides that relaxation and also a little bit of broader perspective.

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.

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

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.