Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!
you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.
respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.
Challenge everything for the Truth. Only those who challenge everything for the Truth are the blessed ones.
God is the name given by theologians to something they know nothing about. There is no God the whole existence is made of the stuff called love.
Reality never comes as a problem. It is only the ideas about reality that comes as a problem.
Dreams have to be made real, not reality changed into dreams.
Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.
Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.
Freedom to dream has not yet been taken away by governments.
The creative person has to dissolve all should and should nots. He needs freedom and space, vast space; he needs the whole sky and all the stars. Only then can his innermost spontaneity start growing.
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
The only way to go beyond death is to accept death. Then it disappears. The only way to be fearless is to accept fear. Then the energy is released and becomes freedom.
Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.
The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.
To be “great” is an ego goal; to be real is existential.
If you are intelligent, if you are alert, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.
Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life.
Remember, it is ultimately your mind which makes anything attractive or unattractive. It is you who is the deciding factor.
Once you have heard the Indian Bamboo flute then everything else is just ordinary!
This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.
Teaching comes through the head, learning happens through the heart.
The family is one of the greatest traps that society has used for millennia to keep man a slave
No-thinking is the door. No-word is the gate. No-mind is the way.
Yoga is a method to come to a nondreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now.
The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.
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 experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.
Don’t be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don’t think about it, see it!
Life is a mystery, not a riddle. It has to be lived, not solved.
Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.
Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived.
Creativity happens only when ego is absent,when you are relaxed, in deep rest, when there is really no desire to do something. Suddenly you are gripped;some unknown force overwhelms you,takes possession of you.
Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.
Remember, whenever you have two things, two alternatives, choose the new one, choose the harder, choose the one in which more awareness will be needed.
Watch. Whenever mind says something, see that it is again putting you into a routine. Try to do something new and the mind will have less a grip on you.
If one is not a meditator, howsoever good one is it is all useless.
If you want to control others you will not be able to meditate. About that one point, be absolutely certain.
Meditation is a flower, and compassion is its fragrance.
Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.
Real meditation means: don’t avoid the inner madhouse; enter into it, face it, encounter it, be watchful, because it is through watchfulness that you will overcome it.
The East has failed because it tried meditation without love. The West has failed because it tried love without meditation. My whole effort is to give you a synthesis, the whole—which means meditation plus love.
Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.
Zen is magic. It gives you the key to open the miraculous. And the miraculous is in you and the key is also in you.
One has to get rid of the self. Once the self is thrown away, nothing is lacking. You start overflowing and blossoms start falling on you.
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 the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good.
People think that those who commit suicide are against life—they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves.
The mystery is solved when you have become the mystery itself.
Be the celebrators, celebrate! Already there is too much—the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky—celebrate it! You are breathing and you are alive and you have consciousness, celebrate it!
Through understanding comes control. Through ignorance one goes on forcing and suppressing. Always do everything with understanding, and you never harm yourself or anybody else.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don’t make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.
Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests
It is not the truth which has to be sought, it is you who have to be brought home.
Acts don’t mean anything. Acts do not matter–you,your awareness, your being conscious,mindful, is what matters. What you do is not the concern.
And whenever you look at somebody as an enemy,you never look deep,you never look into the eye, you avoid. Don’t be a fighter, be a lover.
Transformation happens only when you put your total energy into it.
Here, fire turns into water;Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun.There’s no opposition in existence, no contradiction;Everything supports everything else.
Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and the name of that order is Tao.
There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.
Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?
Existence simply responds to you: whatsoever you are, existence gives you more of that. If you have many flowers within your being flowering, a million times more flowers will shower on you.
When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.
A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before—then there is creativity.
Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.
How can I know these trees, how can I know you, how can I know the other if I myself am unknown to me, if I am myself ignorant; when I do not know who I am.
When the ego is not, you are for the first time encountering your being. That being is void. Then you can surrender; then you have surrendered.
If the conscious falls into the unconscious you fall into a coma, and if the unconscious falls into the conscious and becomes conscious itself, you become enlightened, you become a Buddha, a Sosan.
The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.
If one comes to fundamentals then this is the most fundamental thing: the moment you are not, enlightenment is. With emptiness, the matter is settled.
We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings – but the painter is one.
The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.
When somebody comes with a conclusion, then he looks through that conclusion and chooses only things which support his position.Logic is a prostitute.It can help anybody – for or against, it has no problem.
Dance madly as if all of life is meant for dancing and celebrating.
Gods are always ready, their hands are always full with flowers. They simply watch and wait. Whenever somebody becomes a Subhuti, empty, whenever somebody is absent, suddenly the flowers start showering.
Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.
What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.
Everybody comes with prejudices, colored glasses on their eyes. Then they see everything colored according to their glasses. Yes, a few people come just like you, unprejudiced, without any idea gathered from yellow journalism.
This is the answer: live moment to moment and you become a buddha.
Love is wild; its whole beauty is in its wildness. It comes like a breeze with great fragrance, fills your heart, and suddenly where there was a desert there is a garden full of flowers.
Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable.
In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with so many situations that demonstrate that this is so.
You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.
They happen only when you are distant,aloof. They happen, they cannot be brought. They happen you cannot force them to happen. They are spontaneous happenings.
Blossoms shower, and then they go on showering—they never stop. The blossoms that showered for Buddha are still showering. The blossoms that showered for Subhuti are still showering.
Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.
Remember, truth cannot be conquered. One has to surrender to truth, one has to be conquered by truth.