Occupation: Guru Birth: December 11, 1931 Death: January 19, 1990
Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must celebrate. After y….
Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being - tha….
And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. Th….
If you try to become a buddha, one thing is certain - you will not be able to become yourself. One thing only is certain - that you will not be yours….
Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they breathe and they exist, they kn….
Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience is cult….
Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the….
Another significant point to remember: if you witness anything - fear, anger, hate - they will disappear, leaving a tremendous amount of energy in yo….
To be a criminal needs great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and suddenly what you were doing in ….
There is a difference. You watch television, you don't witness it. But, while watching television, if you start witnessing yourself watching televisi….
Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, ju….
The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the pa….
The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of….
Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be ….
Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch..
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surpr….
You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more..
Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a dewdrop. Their strength is very frag….
Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its p….
Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don't let ….
And then certainly, whatsoever you do - your character, your behaviour - is yours, authentically yours. It has your signature on it. Then you are not….