Rajneesh (also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Osho) was regarded as a controversial new religious leader and mystic. Osho is the author of The Meditations of the First and Last Freedom, The Orange Book, published by Ed Mediterranee. The book has been published as 2 of more than 600 titles of Osho in over 30 countries. In this blog, we include the best 15 Osho quotes.
The Osho Meditation Resort in Pune is an international center with a regular staff that hosts thousands of visitors each year. Sannyasin and other seekers can visit the Centre, read more than six hundred books transcribed by Osho, give lectures and write about him, communicate via the Internet, gather with the world and meditate, and enroll at the Centre for Counselling and Personal Growth Training.
These 15 Osho quotes on meditation give an insight into the breadth and depth of his understanding of meditation.
“Life is about finding the perfect balance between rest, movement and letting go of each other.”
“Genuine meditation allows the mind to go its own way and does not interfere in any way, but remains vigilant and witness.”
“Meditation has only one meaning, and that is to go beyond the mind and become a witness to oneself.”
“Meditation has only one purpose: to enter the mind, to become a witness.”
“Put meditation on your laundry list as the most important, urgent, number one. Meditation is at the very end of your life and the list is getting longer. When you finish the laundry list, you will finish on time, but meditation will never come.”
“When you go and observe the inevitable, you will see everything disappear, and all that is observed and illusory will become clear, more and more crystal clear, and the hidden clouds of your illusory dreams and desires will emerge clearly.”
“The only thing that matters in life is one’s own opinion of oneself, and nothing can destroy your dignity as long as your dignity does not depend on one’s opinion.” Osho quotes
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“Happiness, love, meditation and beauty will all be gifts of the Sacred Whole. You do not deserve it in any way, and you cannot force anything into existence that makes you happy, makes you love or makes you meditative.”
“I would like marriage to disappear from the world, as it does when divorce disappears. Two singing hearts cannot meet in deep meditation without each other, and therefore it must be possible.”
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“When two meditators love each other, love becomes the nourishment of their meditation and vice versa, the meditations become the nourishment of their love.”
“When a meditator reaches a certain climax of his bliss, he is silent, and their love for one another becomes an immense support for the escape of the other into the unknown.” – Osho quotes
“No religion in the past has made the polarity of love and meditation parallel, but the lines meet.”
“When you look at individual quotations and look at the entire beliefs of the person from whom they are derived, it is easy to find inspiration in the words.”
“When you sit and act, you do not identify with the meditation part.”
“Walk as if you were meditating at work, meditating sitting down, meditating lying down or meditating lying down – meditation becomes your constant companion.” – Osho quotes
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