Occupation: Guru Birth: December 11, 1931 Death: January 19, 1990
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 ….
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….
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….
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….
Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex, when a ….
Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed into the futur….
No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little ….
Whatever you do, do with deep alertness, then even small things become sacred..
There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who are fast asleep - and sleep ….
Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your ….
Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation ..
Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all ima….
No, I don't want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes..
I would like you to accept only one prayer, and that is laughter, because when you are totally laughing you are in the present. You cannot laugh in t….
Ordinarily we think sex makes people loving - sex can never make people loving. In fact, it is sexuality that prevents love from growing - because it….
Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a flowering. It cannot. Out of….
As far as your ego is concerned and your jealousy is concerned, my whole work here is to help you become so loving that the energy that becomes jealo….
It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering..
Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes..
The whole existence is surrounded by a divine energy that protects you, cares for you, is always available. If you go on missing it, it is only becau….