Occupation: Guru Birth: December 11, 1931 Death: January 19, 1990
Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away..
Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The wom….
Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquerin….
Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised - a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat slowly, and you will be surpri….
Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presen….
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. And never ….
Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say..
I'll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules..
Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is ….
Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be….
The world is slowly, slowly moving towards love relationships; hence there is great turmoil. All the old institutions are disappearing - they have to….
Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being w….
Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it..
Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality..
How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact..
If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning..
That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no m….
When you have emptied all content - thoughts, desires, memories, projections, hopes - when all is gone, for the first time you find yourself, because….
Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine….
Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions, how it overpowers you, how in ….
One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away from y….