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.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one
you are looking for is you.

"Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it
make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more
understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive?"

"Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't
judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more
compassionate, more understanding."

"You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few
beautiful children. But you are not to interfere in their growth, in their potential. You are not
to impose yourself upon them. They are not going to live in the same times, they are not
going to face the same problems. They will be part of another world. Dont prepare them for
this world, this society, this time, because then you will be creating troubles for them. They
will find themselves unfit, unqualified."

"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not.
It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of
love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the
other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and
without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because
they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness
cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other."

"The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life:
expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target-you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target-not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many
things, but an open being, available to millions of things.

"All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes
on doing. We want to possess."

"You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have
said God is the creator. I dont know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know:
the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to
a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator
because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be
meditative while you are doing it whatsoever it is"

"Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny - he or she has something to
fulfill, some message that has to be delivered, some work that has to be completed. You are
not here accidentally - you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole
intends to do something through you.

"Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully and you
will see that nothing goes out of control; that your intelligence becomes sharper; that you
become younger; that your love becomes deeper. And when you go out into the world,
wherever you go, spread life, playfulness, joy, as far away as possible to every nook and
corner of the earth."

"I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was
perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would

like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and
to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message."

"Take hold of your own life.

See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious.
The rivers and the oceans are wild,
and everywhere there is fun,
everywhere there is joy and delight.
Watch existence,
listen to the existence and become part of it."

"Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some
space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always
left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser"

Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you
become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends
on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are
always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying
to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than
being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really
showing symptoms that you dont know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates
that you have not come home yet."

"That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, dont let past move your
mind; dont let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To
live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when
you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you
will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.

"You exist in time, but you belong to

eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are
deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no
birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of
your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of
meditation;Becoming conscious of consciousness itself

Doubt--because doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are not responsible to
any nation, to any church, to any God. You are responsible only for one thing, and that is self
knowledge. And the miracle is, if you can fulfill this responsibility, you will be able to fulfill
many other responsibilities without any effort. The moment you come to your own being, a
revolution happens in your vision. Your whole outlook about life goes through a radical
change. You start feeling new responsibilities--not as some thing to be done, not as a duty to
be fulfilled, but as a joy to do

"I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my
state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a
foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is
my state of being. I simply love

"You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false
- Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are

.If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can
be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion

A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he
or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of
the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are
together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one.
Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics
involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love."

"Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars and if you have
eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy.
Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents
and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at
the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else.
One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love but that is
an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love."

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are
complementary, not contradictory.

"Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be
surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been
removed and the river has started flowing.

"Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no
condition, where one simply enjoys giving."

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is
accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself,
that's what maturity is all about.

"Wherever you feel death, feel it. Dont escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest
mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile worldmeaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door

Sex has become more and more attractive because of its condemnation by priests

How can you dominate the person you love? Just think over it.

Domination is a sort of hatred, anger, enmity. How can you even think of dominating a
person you love? You would love to see the person totally free, independent; you will give
him more individuality. Thats why I call it the greatest paradox:

if love is destroying freedom, it is not of worth. Love can be dropped, freedom has to be
saved; freedom is a higher value. And without freedom you can never be happy, that is not
possible. Freedom is the intrinsic desire of each man, each woman utter freedom, absolute
freedom.

So anything that becomes destructive to freedom, one starts hating it. Dont you hate the
man you love? Dont you hate the woman you love? You hate; it is a necessary evil, you have
to tolerate it. Because you cannot be alone you have to manage to be with somebody, and
you have to adjust to the others demands. You have to tolerate, you have to bear them.

Love, to be really love, has to be being-love, gift-love. Being-love means a state of love.
When you have arrived home, when you have known who you are, then a love arises in your
being. Then the fragrance spreads and you can give it to others.

How can you give something which you dont have?

To give it, the first basic requirement is to have it.

"First the husband tried to make the wife his possession, and once she is a possession he
loses interest. There is some hidden logic in it: his whole interet was to possess; now that is
finished, and he would like to try some other woman so he can again go on another trip of
possesion

"If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff, even though he be
a bad-tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the boat, he will
shout at him to steer clear. If the shout is not heard, he will shout again, and yet again, and
begin cursing. And all because there is somebody in the boat. Yet if the boat were empty, he
would not be shouting, and not angry. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of
the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Who can free himself
from achievement, and from fame, descend and be lost amid the masses of men? He will
flow like Tao, unseen, he will go about like Life itself with no name and no home. Simple is
he, without distinction. To all appearances he is a fool. His steps leave no trace. He has no
power. He achieves nothing, has no reputation. Since he judges no one, no one judges him.
Such is the perfect man: His boat is empty

"The natural desire of the human mind is to become special - to become special in the ways
of the world, to have many degrees, to have much political power, to have money, wealth to be special.

The mind is always ready to go on some ego trip. And if you are fed up with the world, then
again the ego starts finding new ways and new means to enhance itself - it becomes
spiritual. You become a great mahatma, a great sage, a great scholar, a man of knowledge, a
man of renunciation; again you are special.

Unless the desire to be special disappears, you will never be special. Unless you relax into
your ordinariness, you will never relax.

Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and
there is no help coming, you become responsible. Prayer is irresponsible. To pray is just to
avoid responsibility, to pray is to be lazy. To pray is just an escape. Buddha says effort is
needed. It is an insult to pray.

you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is

enough."

"If you live consciously, if you try to bring consciousness to every act that you go through,
you will be living in a silent, blissful state, in serenity, in joy, in love. Your life will have the
flavour of a festival. That is the meaning of heaven: your life will have many flowers in it,
much fragrance will be released through you. You will have an aura of delight. Your life will
be a song of life-affirmation, it will be a sacred yes to all that existence is. You will be in
communion with existence in communion with stars, with the trees, with the rivers, with
the mountains, with people, with animals. This whole life and this whole existence will have
a totally different meaning for you. From every nook and corner, rivers of bliss will be
flowing towards you. Heaven is just a name for that state of mind. Hell means you are living
so unconsciously, so absurdly, in such contradiction, that you go on creating more and more
misery for yourself

If you live with unhealthy people, to be healthy is dangerous. If you live with insane people,
then to be sane is dangerous. If you live in a madhouse, even if you are not mad at least
pretend that you are mad; otherwise those mad people will kill you

"The tongue never slips remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes
invariably on the tongue

"The world is like a waiting room in a railway station; it is not your house.
You are not going to remain in the waiting room forever.
Nothing in the waiting room belongs to you the furniture, the paintings on the wall .... You
use them you see the painting, you sit on the chair, you rest on the bed but nothing
belongs to you.
You are just here for a few ...minutes, or for a few hours at the most, then you will be gone.
Yes, what you have brought in with you, into the waiting room, you will take away with you;
thats yours. What have you brought into the world? And the world certainly is a waiting
room.
The waiting may not be in seconds, minutes, hours, days, it may be in years; but what does it
matter whether you wait seven hours, or seventy years?
You may forget, in seventy years, that you are just in a waiting room.
You may star t thinking perhaps you are the owner, perhaps this is the house you have built.
You may start putting your nameplate on the waiting room

Destructiveness cannot bring happiness; destruction is against the law of creation. The law
of creation is to be creative. So Buddha says if you are destructive you will be miserable.If
you are envious, infatuated, competitive, ambitious, jealous, possessive, you will be in
misery

Love is the opposite of [lust]: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When
you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is no feeling of hurt; you become
enriched through it. Love makes everybody rich

"I give a fuck if youre a damn Jew, or a Serbo-Kroat, an American or the devil knows what!
What are your human qualities, if I may ask? Are you honest? Do you treat your family and
friends lovingly and with respect? Are you happy? Or do you exploit other human beings, in
order to silence your frustration with the filthy lucre?

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the
tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you
relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly
a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being
to be false to. You fall together

"If you love a person,

you accept the total person.
With all the defects.
Because those defects are a part of the person.

Never try to change a person you love,

because the very effort to change says that you love half,
and the other half of the person is not accepted .

When you love,

you simply love.

The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition ... If Buddha is alive you can
barely tolerate him. ... You cannot believe this man has known the ultimate because he
looks just like you ... Hungry he needs food, sleepy he wants a bed, ill, he has to rest just

like you ... That is why Jesus is worshiped now and yet he was crucified when he was alive.
Alive, you crucify him; dead, you worship him.

You dont have any problems only this much has to be understood. This very moment you
can drop all problems. because they are your creations. Have another look at your problems:
the deeper you look, the smaller they will appear. Go on looking at them and by and by they
will start disappearing. Go on gazing and suddenly you will find there is emptiness a
beautiful emptiness surrounds you. Nothing to do, nothing to be, because you are already
that

Never interfere in anybodys life and dont allow anybody to interfere in your life

Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your
totality.

The Real Self is dangerous: dangerous to the established church, dangerous to the state,
dangerous to the crowd, dangerous to tradition, because once a man knows his real self, he
becomes an individual.

All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been
committed already. You cannot find a new sin - it is very difficult, it is almost impossible to
be original about sin. For millions of years people have committed everything that can be
committed.

To be thrown in hell for your sins. Now this is too much! you can throw a man into hell for
five years, ten years, twenty years, fifty years. If a man has lived for seventy years you can
throw him there for seventy years.and that is if you only believe in one life. It is good that
they believe in one life.

You see my five fingers, but somebody can see the five gaps between my fingers. Ordinarily
you will not see the gaps, you will see five fingers. But the gaps are more real: fingers may
come and go, gaps will remain. Between sounds of music there are gaps of silence. The
authentic music consists not of sounds,but of the gaps. Sounds come and go; those gaps
remain. And music can make you aware of those gaps more beautifully than anything else;
hence I have to say that music comes next to silence.

Man, naturally, should be a vegetarian because the whole body is made for vegetarian food.
Even scientists concede to the fact that the whole structure of the human body shows that
man should not be a nonvegetarian. Man comes from the monkeys and monkeys are
vegetarians absolute vegetarians. If Darwin is correct, then man should be a vegetarian.
Now, there are ways to judge whether a certain species of animal is vegetarian or
nonvegetarian: it depends on the length of the intestine. Nonvegetarian animals have a very
small intestine. Tigers and lions have a very small intestine because meat is already a
digested food. It does not need a long intestine to digest it. The work of digestion has been
done by the animal and now you are eating the animals meat. It is already digested; a long
intestine is not needed. Man has one of the longest intestines that means man is a
vegetarian. A long digestion is needed and there will be much excreta which has to be
thrown out

"Man ordinarily lives in loneliness. To avoid loneliness, he creates all kinds of relationships,
friendships, organizations, political parties, religions and what not. But the basic thing is that
he is very much afraid of being lonely. Loneliness is a black hole, a darkness, a frightening
negative state almost like death as if you are being swallowed by death itself. To avoid it,
you run out and fall into anybody, just to hold somebodys hand, to feel that you are not
lonely Nothing hurts more than loneliness.
But the trouble is, any relationship that arises out of the fear of being lonely is not going to
be a blissful experience, because the other is also joining you out of fear. You both call it
love. You are both deceiving yourself and the other. It is simply fear, and fear can never be
the source of love. Only those who love are absolutely fearless; only those who love are able
to be alone, joyously, whose need for the other has disappeared, who are sufficient unto
themselves

The day you decide that all these efforts are failures, that your loneliness has remained
untouched by all your efforts, that is a great moment of understanding. Then only one thing
remains: to see whether loneliness is such a thing that you should be afraid of, or if it is just
your nature. Then rather than running out and away, you close your eyes and go in.
Suddenly the night is over, and a new dawn The loneliness transforms into aloneness.

Aloneness is your nature. You were born alone, you will die alone. And you are living alone
without understanding it, without being fully aware of it. You misunderstand aloneness as
loneliness; it is simply a misunderstanding. You are sufficient unto yourself."

What is my definition of right? That which is harmonious with existence is right, and that
which is disharmonious with existence is wrong. You will have to be very alert each moment,
because it has to be decided each moment afresh.

Once you are in a relationship you start taking each other for granted. Thats what destroys
all love affairs. The woman thinks she knows the man, the man thinks he knows the woman.
Nobody knows either. It is impossible to know the other, the other remains a mystery. And
to take the other for granted is insulting, disrespectful.

Think before you desire a thing. There is every possibility that it will be fulfilled, and then
you will suffer