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“The Christian priest is not interested in God: he is interested in creating a business. He has to claim that Jesus is the only way, that all other ways are wrong. He is in search of customers.”

Rajneesh

The Mustard Seed (1975)

Business , God , Way , Search

“And my grandparents became very aware of one thing—that I enjoyed my aloneness. They had seen that I had no desire to go to the village to meet anybody, or to talk with anybody. Even if they wanted to talk, my answers were yes or no; I was not interested in talking either. They became aware of one thing—that I enjoyed my aloneness and it was their sacred duty not to disturb me.”

Rajneesh

Source: Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), p. 6

“If you believe in any religion you cannot meditate. Religion is an interference in your meditation. Meditation needs no God, no heaven, no hell, no fear of punishment, and no allurement of pleasure.”

Rajneesh

Source: Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), p. 10

God , Hell , Religion , Pleasure

“Nobody should lie — to a child, at least — it is unforgivable. Children have been exploited for centuries just because they are willing to trust. You can lie to them very easily and they will trust you. If you are a father, a mother, they will think you are bound to be true. That’s how the whole of humanity lives in corruption, in a very slippery mud of lies told to children for centuries. If we can do just one thing, a simple thing — not lie to children and to confess to them our ignorance — then we will be religious and we will put them on the path of religion. Children are innocent: leave them not your so-called knowledge. But you yourself must first be innocent, unlying, true.”

Rajneesh

Source: Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), p. 13

Religion , Children , Knowledge , Lie

“The so-called mahatmas and saints are all cowards. I have never come across a single mahatma—Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, Buddhist—who can be said to be really a rebellious spirit. Unless one is rebellious, one is not religious. Rebellion is the very foundation of religion.”

Rajneesh

Source: Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), p. 19

Religion

“I am the rich man's guru.”

Rajneesh

The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986) ISBN 0880502509

“Tantra says there is nobody above you whom you have to follow, through whom you have to get your pattern.”

Rajneesh

Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

“Near about twelve my eyes suddenly opened — I had not opened them. The sleep was broken by something else. I felt a great presence around me in the room. It was a very small room. I felt a throbbing life all around me, a great vibration — almost like a hurricane, a great storm of light, joy, ecstasy. I was drowning in it. It was so tremendously real that everything became unreal. The walls of the room became unreal, the house became unreal, my own body became unreal. Everything was unreal because now there was for the first time reality.”

Rajneesh

The Discipline Of Transcendence (1978)

Life , Reality , Sleep , Light

“The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.”

Rajneesh

Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

Flowers

“Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.”

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Ancient Music in the Pines

“When I am gone I hope there may still be courageous people in the world to criticize me, so that I don't become a hindrance on anybody's path. And those who will criticize me will not be my enemies; neither am I the enemy of those whom I have criticized. The working of the enlightened masters just has to be understood.”

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Satyam Shivam Sundaram

People , World , Hope , Courage

“The whole day was strange, stunning, and it was a shattering experience. The past was disappearing, as if it had never belonged to me, as if I had read about it somewhere, as if I had dreamed about it, as if it was somebody else's story I have heard and somebody told it to me. I was becoming loose from my past, I was being uprooted from my history, I was losing my autobiography. I was becoming a non-being, what Buddha calls anatta. Boundaries were disappearing, distinctions were disappearing.”

Rajneesh

The Discipline Of Transcendence (1978)

Dreams , History , Reading , Past

“You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.”

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When the Shoe Fits

Beauty

“Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology.”

Rajneesh

Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

“Man has nothing else to do but surrender — in deep trust, in deep love. Don’t be a doer, just surrender. Let there be a let-go.”

Rajneesh

The Art of Dying ( osho.com http://www.osho.com/online-library-allow-silences-joke-5f0b06d0-61e.aspx; retrieved August 2012), Chapter 6, 14.
The Art of Dying

Love

“When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.”

Rajneesh

Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

Time

“You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila.”

Rajneesh

Sufis, The People of the Path, Vol. 1
Context: You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.

Beauty

“My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.”

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Come, Come, Yet Again Come
Context: My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.

Love

“I have withdrawn the red dress, the mala”

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The Last Testament, Vol. 3
Context: I have withdrawn the red dress, the mala, because thousands of people wanted to be sannyasins but just because of the clothes and the mala they felt difficulties in the world — their job, their family, their wife, their parents, their friends — and it was too much of a trouble. I have withdrawn everything. Now whatsoever remains is something inner which neither the wife can detect nor the father nor the job nor the friends.