Occupation: Guru Birth: December 11, 1931 Death: January 19, 1990
Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work - all these small activities make up your living. And each part, each moment of livin….
Just seeing the fact that this is an attachment, that attachment is a bondage - a beautiful word for bondage - that attachment is not love... just se….
What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a ….
Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again..
Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also..
"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body..
If you can believe in God you can believe in a witch, it is the same package. If you can believe in one kind of nonsense, you can believe in all kind….
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave..
Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You mee….
Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and has become enchanted by the words of Buddhas. ….
The ego is exploitation; love is service. And the service that flows from love, freely and spontaneously, is non-violence..
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!.
Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition..
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock..
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..
Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they ….
From birth to death you go on living, groping in darkness with no light - and you could have created the light. You cannot find it in the scriptures….
If you are a man of prayer, existence appears as God, as personal. If you are a man of meditation, existence is impersonal, just a wholeness, a divin….
The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the ….
Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going to kill people - peopl….
Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing ….