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The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don't want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
Rajneesh
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Rajneesh
Age: 58 †
Born: 1931
Born: December 11
Died: 1990
Died: January 19
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Rajneesh Chandra Mohan
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Chandra Mohan Jain
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
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The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.
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Meditation means you don't have anything, any object to think about. You are just in a state of absolute aloneness. You don't have anything on which you can focus yourself - not a sutra, not a mantra, not any great value of life, just pure space all around you. Then you are in meditation. Meditation is never about something. Meditation is a state.
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That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.
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Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.
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If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only as an occupation because you are feeling lost and there is nothing to do - a long holiday, so you start doing something... That is not coming out of your silences, it is coming out of your crazy mind.
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Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.
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Meditation is not your doing. You simply make the effort, but it is not your doing. Your effort is needed to prepare the ground. As the ground is ready, immediately you see you are no more the whole cosmos is. You have entered a greater womb, an eternal womb of tremendous peace and ecstasy.
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What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
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I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering
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If you feel you are the body type, then running can be very beautiful for you: a four, five mile run every day. And make it a meditation. It will transform you completely.
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Death is the greatest illusion of all.
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Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.
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Lao Tzu says: Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble. None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable.
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The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible even the impossible is possible.
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It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.
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One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
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Through true love, you touch inner completeness.
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I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it.
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The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.
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Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.
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