Rajneesh Quotes

Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it. It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless.

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

When you can take away the ego, you learn a lot about yourself and the world around you.

What I've learnt is to be in the now. It's something my mum has always said to me, and when I read a book called 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle, I realised just how important it is.

The ego always needs to be 'doing,' and repeating a mantra guides my mind to a deeper, less active experience.

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

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

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion

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

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

If you want to reach a state of Bliss - make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you are respected, you are insulted - all kinds of things come, they are all dualities. And you go on watching. Watching the duality, a third force arises in you; a third dimension arises in you. The duality means two dimensions: one dimension is happiness; another is unhappiness. Watching both, a depth arises in you: the third dimension, witnessing, sakshin.

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.