Rajneesh Quotes

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.

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

I live in the present moment.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.

I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'

The essence of the Way is detachment.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it's one of the most difficult things for anyone to do.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

You have to live in the present, I think.