Rajneesh Quotes

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

Meditation is not doing something. But you cannot take a jump immediately into non-doing. So I suggest that you make your doing total. Move into it so deeply, and so totally that suddenly the doing drops, and you alone are left, just existing.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

I just like being present.

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

I try to just stay in the present moment as much as possible.

Don't think too hard. Just be present, and things will reveal themselves.

Take each day as it comes and focus on the present moment.

You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness. It is a state of no-action. It is a state of tremendous passivity, receptivity. You are not doing anything, you are not thinking anything, you are not planning for anything, you are not doing yoga exercises, and you are not doing any technique, any method - you are simply existing, just existing. And in that very moment... the sudden realization that all is as it should be. That's what enlightenment is!

In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

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

The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.

Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just dream-negating devices.

The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

To be choiceless is to be in meditation. To be choiceless is to enter the eternal.

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.