Rajneesh
Rajneesh
OSHOwas a mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher, born in India. The international Rajneesh movement has continued after his death...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth11 December 1931
CountryIndia
memory mind tape
When you want any memory you can use the mind just as you can put on your tape recorder.
forgiven forgiveness remember simply
I would simply like to be forgiven and forgotten. There is no need to remember me. The need is to remember yourself!
hindu
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
spirituality eternity awake
To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.
deep-love insecurity helping
Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative.
vegetarianism years people
I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.
vegetarianism effort earth
Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.
integrity moving maturity
Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.
integrity meditation sincerity
Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
zest joy waiting
Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.
dogma creeds destroying
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
individuality world
Individuality is that which you bring into the world.
single-mom facts moments
How can one become enlightened in one single moment? One can, because one is enlightened -- one just has to recognize the fact. It is not something that happens from the outside, it is something that arises from the inside. It has always been there but you were clouded, you were full of thoughts.
enlightenment nowhere-to-go findings
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.