Rajneesh Quotes

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

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

I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.

I meditate. I need that time to stay true to who I am.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic.

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

I would recommend meditating. I think that's the single most important thing that I do. More than stretching, more than the way I eat, there's something about understanding who you truly are. The essence of everyone is so beautiful that it's startling.

Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own self.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.

I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

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

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.