Rajneesh Quotes

Indian guru and leader of the Rajneesh movement (1931–1990)

Osho [Hindi: ओशो] (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), born Chandra Mohan Jain [चन्द्र मोहन जैन], and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who inspired a controversial spiritual movement in India, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, and many other countries. His syncretic teachings emphasise the importance of meditation, awareness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humour — qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialisation.

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Pen Names: Osho

Birth Name: Chandra Mohan Jain

Native Name: रजनीश चन्द्र मोहन जैन

Alternative Names: Rajneesh Chandra Mohan • Acharya Rajneesh • Osho Rajneesh • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh • Bhagwan • Shree Rajneesh

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Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

هر موجودی؛ یك سرود الهی است بی همتا؛ منحصر به فرد؛ تكرار نشدنی و غیر قابل مقایسه

Life begins where fear ends.

Meaning comes from the unknown, from the stranger, from the unpredictable that suddenly knocks at your door — a flower that suddenly blooms and you never expected it; a friend that suddenly happens to be on the street you were not waiting for; a love that blooms suddenly and you were not even aware that this was going to happen, you had not even imagined, not even dreamed. Then life has meaning. Then life has a dance. Then every step is happy because it is not a step filled with duty, it is a step moving into the unknown. The river is going towards the sea.

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.

Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced.

One thing is certain: Existence is overflowing. With everything it is luxurious. It is not a poor existence, no. Poverty is man’s creation.

الدين رحلة إلى الداخل والتأمل طريق الرحلة تلك تكمن مهمة التأمل في أنه يأخذك أنت ووعيك إلى أعمق ما يمكن يصبح جسدك شيئا فشيء خارجيا حتى عقلك يصبح خارجيا

Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special — and then you will be special.

People hate themselves, people condemn themselves — they go on condemning; they go on thinking that they are rotten. How can the other love you, such a rotten person. No, nobody can love you really — the other must be befooling, cheating; there must be some other reason. She must be after something else; he must be after something else. You know your rottenness, worthlessness — love seems to be out of the question. And when some woman comes and says she adores you, you cannot trust. When you go to a woman and you say you adore her, and she hates herself, how can she believe you? It is self-hatred that is creating the anxiety.

Go into your fear. Silently enter into it, so you can find its depth. And sometimes it happens that it is not very deep.

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 world is nothing but your own magnified mind.

Sadness is silent, it is yours. It is coming because you are alone. It is giving you a chance to go deeper into your aloneness. Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as a means for meditation. Witness it. It is a friend! It opens the door of your eternal aloneness.