Rajneesh

Rajneesh
OSHOwas a mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher, born in India. The international Rajneesh movement has continued after his death...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth11 December 1931
CountryIndia
teaching like-love quality
What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
dogma creeds destroying
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
integrity book people
My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
simple creating trying
I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.
lying men there-is-no-god
There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
men leave-me-alone looks
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
believe long mind
I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.
love teaching two
My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.
heart mma greatest-fear
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.
inspirational humanity miserable
When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable...
death somewhere-else paradise
Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.
motivational numbers humanity
The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number of rebels, a rebellious spirit, then our days on the earth are numbered. We have to change our consciousness, create more meditative energy in the world, create more lovingness.
library answers wonder
Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.
philosophy somewhere-else space
Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.