Occupation: Guru Birth: December 11, 1931 Death: January 19, 1990
Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is t….
Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts happening ….
Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappin….
One thing is certain: you can never become anything other than yourself, and unless you become yourself you cannot be happy. Happiness happens only w….
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize how un….
Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste. ….
All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If you ….
Egolessness is contentment..
Mind only thinks, meditation lives..
Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare him to become part of the gre….
There are very few joys in life greater than spontaneity. Spontaneity means to be in the moment; it means acting out of your awareness, not acting ac….
Being is so significant that it is irreplaceable. You are just yourself. Do something that comes out of you - not to assert, but to express! Sing you….
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time..
Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking f….
We are not here just to survive and live long .... We are here to live and know life in it's multi-dimensions, to know life in its richness, in all i….
To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master..
So remember, if marriage arises out of intimacy then it is beautiful. That means that everybody should have lived together before they get married. T….
Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just rel….
Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptatio….
"The ego is created by the rift. When you are fighting, the ego comes in; when you are not fighting, the ego cannot come in. Ego is a tension. If you….
Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation….