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Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.
Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently
Seeking you go astray seeking you go in dreams seeking you go somewhere else and truth is here. Seeking, you go then; and truth is NOW
Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.
No God is needed, no heaven and hell are needed. All that is needed is a simple understanding that mind is the source of negativities.
Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.
Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.
How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?
Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
When you are feeling very passionate, lust, sex takes over. Just try to be tranquil in the breathing, and you feel sex has disappeared.
Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.
Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet?
Remember the emphasis on the heart. the mind lives in doubt and the heart lives in trust. When you trust, suddenly you become centered.
Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.
Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.
If you want to become an infinite source of love, then go on sharing love as much as you can. Don't be a miser; only misers lose energy.
You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.
Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.
Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!
Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.
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.
If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others.
Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about the path.
I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak.
Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
Never ask, "Who is my real friend?" Ask, "Am I a real friend to somebody?" That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.
Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness.
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be - in heaven or in hell.
The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.
All duality is a mind creation, all duality is created by the clinging and attached mind. When there is no attachment there is no duality.
You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.
If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.
Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.
Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.
The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom.
Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.
Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind;don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.
Yes, it is better to look from the window than not to look at all, but to look through the window cannot be compared to the windowless sky.
Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.