Meditation can flower only in deep relaxation: relaxation is the right soil for meditation to happen. Remember, meditation is not concentration. Concentration is a strain: it can’t be relaxed, it is tension. It cannot be restful. Concentration means that you are focusing your mind’s energies onto one point, excluding everything else. It is a great […]
There is nothing more valuable than meditation. The people who have not tasted meditation are the poorest in the world. They may have all the riches, but they are still beggars because they have not yet known the real treasure – the treasure that cannot be destroyed by death, the treasure that cannot be taken […]
Ordinarily, man is empty, hollow. That is his misery. He wants to be full; hence he goes on stuffing himself with food, with sex, with alcohol, with money, with things, with all kinds of gadgets that technology makes available. But still the inner emptiness remains as empty as ever. In fact, one starts feeling it […]
Meditation is a state of no-mind; it is neither at the center of the mind, nor at the circumference. It is simply not of the mind, it is watching the mind from the outside. That is exactly the meaning of the English word, ecstasy – to stand outside. To stand outside of the mind is […]
Meditation is a way to attain peace; it is not a cultivation of peace, but an awareness of your thoughts, awareness of what you are doing, thinking, feeling — a three-dimensional awareness. One dimension is action, the second dimension is thought, the third dimension is feeling. All these dimensions have to be watched silently, with […]
The moment you know your supreme self, you become an emperor. Before that, you remain a beggar. Self-knowledge makes you aware of your kingdom for the first time. The kingdom is not of the outside. All outside kingdoms are false, they are sandcastles, or houses made of playing cards: at any moment they can disappear. […]
We have the potential to be fully awakened but we may not actualize it. That is our responsibility. We have the seed and the soil and the climate and everything that is needed, but still you may not drop the seed into the soil. You may keep the seed, you may treasure it behind locked […]
There are three levels that human energy can rise to: the first is sex, the second is love, the third is prayer. It is the same energy moving higher, becoming less and less gross, becoming more and more subtle. Sex is energy moving downward; it functions under the law of gravitation. The earth pulls it […]
God has not to be approached through logic but through love. To approach him through logic is to miss him. Logic is the sure way to miss God. It prohibits, it hinders; God cannot be caught in a logical net. The logical net is crude and God is so subtle. He is not like a […]
The moment you are ready to risk for that which is invisible, for that which is beyond words, beyond logic, beyond mind, for that which can never be measured, for that which can never be reduced to a system, you are taking a quantum leap. The mind will call it madness, but that madness is […]