Rajneesh Quotes

To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

The body cannot be the soul.

If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would say impossible - to imagine the end of our very existence.

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either.

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.