Rajneesh: Trending quotes

“Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden — you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.”

“Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.”

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”

“Truth cannot be found by intellectual effort because truth is not a theory, it is an experience.”

“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

“No, explanation is not needed — only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.”

“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”

“Look for the mysterious in life.”

“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”

“Meaning is mancreated. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.”

“You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.”

“Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.”

“Why seek at all for a purpose?
If you seek this you will never find it because it is eternally hidden in the seeker.”

“Life is without purpose – life is its own purpose,
therefore he who lives without purpose truly lives.
Live! Isn’t living itself enough?”

“One is not in love, one is love.”

“All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don't try to become.”

“Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.”

“The first thing to be understood about a man like Jesus is that whatsoever the church that is bound to grow around such a man says about him, it is bound to be wrong. What the Christian church says about Christ cannot be true. In fact the Christian priest does not represent Christ at all. He is the same old rabbi in new garments, the same old rabbi who was responsible for Jesus murder.”

“Jesus is a rebel, just as Buddha or Lao Tzu is. When the church starts establishing itself it starts destroying the rebelliousness of Jesus, Buddha, because rebellion cannot go with an establishment.”