Rajneesh Quotes

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

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

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 meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.

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. And that's what it's all about, being alone with yourself every day, for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.

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.

The most powerful benefits of meditation come from having a regular, daily practice.

Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.

"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.

If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.

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.

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

The interesting thing that happens for many people when they first start meditating is that they'll be doing it for a few months, and they will begin to change, but the experience is so subtle that they're not even aware of it.

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.