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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Quotes
- Whenever you can find moments to be alone,
be alone, and never try to convince yourself that you don't have
time to be alone. You have time to go to a movie, you have time to
gossip for hours, you have time to read all kinds of yellow
newspapers, you have time to look at pornographic magazines, you
have time to play cards, you have time to play chess, you have time
to see stupid things -- like a football match -- for hours on end.
- Every being is in search of truth, but
small fears go on preventing you.
- I simply love you as you are, and I would
like you also to love yourself as you are, and just go on growing,
just remain simply yourself.
- Remember, whenever I say something or I
give a message to you, it is simply to destroy your bondage, your
chains, your imprisonment. I am not shaping your being, I am simply
deprogramming you. Your being is already there, covered under so
many programs -- Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan, communist.
- Meditation means you are so conscious of
whatsoever you are doing; in that very consciousness the quality of
doing changes. You need not have ideals. Ideals are simply
postponing the revolution, the mutation.
- Man started suppressing women only because
he felt inferior. His inferiority complex was the cause of his
forcing women to become inferior, so he could cover up his wound and
feel superior. It is stupid.
- Meditation creates the catalytic agent: a
totally silent mind with no thoughts, a totally relaxed body with no
tensions, a totally empty heart with no moods, no feelings, no
sentiments, no emotions. And then, simply wait. In this silence,
serenity, just wait.... And out of nowhere something explodes in
you. Yes, it is an explosion -- of light, of love, of tremendous
bliss, which remains with you forever. You cannot lose it even if
you want to. Nobody can become unenlightened again, that is not
possible.
- Mind is too narrow a thing: it cannot
surround reality, it has to dissolve into reality. When you are not
a mind, reality is. And reality is God. And that God -- you will not
find that it fits with Hindus or it fits with Christians. It fits
with nobody. It cannot. Hence I go on insisting that religion is not
Christian, not Hindu, not Buddhist. Religion knows no adjectives,
religion knows no labels. It is life itself, in its tremendous
vitality, in its unlimited expanse, in its endless, beginningless
flow.
- Sannyas is really coming closer to a
master. The old definition of sannyas was going away from the world,
renouncing the world. To me, that definition has been a calamity.
You can renounce the world, you can escape into the mountains -- but
where are you going? Because you will be with yourself wherever you
go, and you are the problem.
The world is not the problem. The mountains are not the solution.
- My definition of sannyas is coming closer
to a master, coming closer to a light. Your candle is unlit. You
bring your candle closer to a candle that is burning bright.
- Sannyas is a journey from darkness towards
light, from death towards immortality, from ignorance towards an
explosion of knowing.
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