Rajneesh Quotes - Page 78

• To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

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  Meditation, Mind, Here And Now

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• Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.

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  Prayer, Share, Ready

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Yoga Rabiya (Ma.), Ananda Vandana (Ma.), Prem Pankaja (Ma.) (1978). “The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha”

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• In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending it you are boiling within.

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  Sex, Names, Celibacy

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• Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen.

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  Buddhist, Teaching, Catholic

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• It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not make much difference. You can be a vegetarian and cruel to the extreme, and violent; you can be a non-vegetarian and kind and loving. Food will not make much difference. In India there are communities who have lived totally with vegetarian food; many Brahmins have lived totally with vegetarian food. They are non-violent but they are not spiritual.

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  Spiritual, Vegetarianism, Differences

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• With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don't have to drag it, you don't have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals.

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  Animal, Vegetarianism, Discipline

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• Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do with aesthetics. It is unbelievable that a man of sensitivity, awareness, understanding, love, can eat meat. And if he can eat meat then something is missing he is still unconscious somewhere of what he is doing, unconscious of the implications of his acts.

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  Men, Vegetarianism, Missing

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• Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.

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  Vegetarianism, Effort, Earth

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is not a question of argument, it is not a question of scriptures, it is not who says what, it is not a question of calculating that if you take vegetarian food you will become spiritual; it is automatic. It is not a question of cunningness, you simply become spiritual. The whole thing seems so absurd. Just for food, killing animals, birds, seems so absurd, it falls down.

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  Spiritual, Hurt, Fall

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• No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the Nobel prizes go to non-vegetarians? - because vegetarian food does not contain those proteins which create intelligence. And unless we provide those proteins, intelligence cannot grow. The body is a very delicate phenomenon and it needs a very well balanced diet.

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  Cutting, Vegetarianism, Needs

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• Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to eat makes your consciousness heavy, insensitive; and you need a very sensitive consciousness - very light, very loving, very compassionate. It is difficult for a non-vegetarian to be compassionate; and without being compassionate and loving you will be hindering your own progress.

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  Light, Vegetarianism, Loving You

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• The so-called transcendental meditation is nothing but a psychological tranquilizer. It is nothing—just a tranquilizer. It helps, but it is good for sleep, not for meditation. You can sleep well, a more calm sleep will be there. It is good, but it is not meditation at all. If you repeat a word constantly it creates a certain boredom, and boredom is good for sleep.

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  Sleep, Boredom, Meditation

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• When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed.

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  Meditation, Energy, Way

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• The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.

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  Mind, Linear, Eastern

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• Seriousness is a disease.

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  Children, Disease, Seriousness

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• Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

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  Flower, Meditation, Branches

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• Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself.

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  Doors, Meditation, Relaxation

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• The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Mind

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• You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

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  Inspirational, Hands, Two

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• Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.

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  Play, People, Great Love

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• The future of humanity will move closer and closer toward the approach of Zen, because the meeting of the East and West is possible only through something like Zen, which is earthly and yet unearthly.

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  Inspirational, Moving, Humanity

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• Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

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  Anxiety, Existence, Small Things

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• A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

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  Inspirational, Religious, Theology

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• Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning in such a harmony, in such wholeness, humming so beautifully... that they are in a melody, they are one. Your whole being - body, mind, soul - is involved in meditation.

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  Motivational, Mean, Meditation

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• There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

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  Lying, Men, There Is No God

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1986). “The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press”, Rajneesh Foundation International

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