Occupation: Guru Birth: December 11, 1931 Death: January 19, 1990
Yes, it is better to look from the window than not to look at all, but to look through the window cannot be compared to the windowless sky..
Transform your sex into love, and transform your love into prayer.
It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates….
All moments are beautiful, only you have to be receptive and surrendering. All moments are blessings, only you have to be capable of seeing. All mome….
Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetari….
Zen is a kind of unlearning. It teaches you how to drop that which you have learned, how to become unskillful again, how to become a child again, how….
No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do, and you….
Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself, you have to become a ….
Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is tran….
To be present is to be prayerful..
Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you….
Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can ga….
Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being..
Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new….
The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Praye….
Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion. To feel confusion needs great intelligence.….
Right awareness is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all that is bad. But as you become aware, the bad starts disapp….
My message, my key, my golden key to transform your energies, is creativity. Be more and more creative, and slowly slowly you will see a transformati….
Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then the birth will be conscious….
Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to t….
All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess..