Occupation: Guru Birth: December 11, 1931 Death: January 19, 1990
Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That`s exactly the meaning of the word `ecstasy`: to stand out. To st….
A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When an ignorant person laughs, his….
What I am saying is that there is no need for anybody to suffer. Just be aware, let awareness be there. Anger will arise and will be consumed by awar….
No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the root cause of all the ….
In the East a man becomes divine only when he is no longer jealous, a man is thought to be enlightened only when he is no longer jealous. Jealousy is….
Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in….
The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wa….
Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind in you, there is great s….
The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, be….
Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage..
Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good..
Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly..
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolu….
The ego is like too many dark clouds around the sun - the sun gets lost.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans….
"Understand the process of the ego. How does the ego live? The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want to be. A wants to be B….
Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is unnecessary in the….
When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in you. As far as the dimension of trut….
Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it..
There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social..
I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless, you have to learn the path of surre….