Quotes

The separation between mind and body must come to an end. Actually, there is no separation. I have no objection to the word ‘mind’ but it is not in one particular location or area; every cell in your system has a mind of its own, and its functioning or working is quite different from that of other cells.

Fear is the very thing that you do not want to be free from. What you call ‘yourself’ is fear. The ‘you’ is born out of fear; it lives in fear, functions in fear and dies in fear.

All insights, however extraordinary they may be, are worthless, because it is thought that has created what we call insight, and through that it is maintaining its continuity and status quo.

All that is necessary for the survival of this living organism is already there. All that is gathered and acquired through intellect is no match to the tremendous intelligence of the body.

This is the ultimate. You have to totally surrender yourself. It can’t be brought about through any effort or volition of yours. It’s a state of surrender where all effort has come to an end, where all movement in the direction of getting something has come to an end.

The human mind has many destructive inventions to its credit. By far, the most destructive one, and the one that has corrupted you, is the invention of God.

Human thinking is born out of some sort of neurological defect in the human body. Therefore anything that is born out of human thinking is destructive.

The natural state is the functioning of this living organism. It is not a synonymous term for enlightenment or God-realization or self-realization. What is left here is this pulsating living organism.

The absence of imagination, the absence of will, the absence of effort, the absence of all movement in any direction, on any level in any dimension - that is the thing.

The plain fact is that if you don’t have a problem you create one. If you don’t have a problem you don’t feel that you are living.

Anything you do to free yourself from anything for whatever reason is destroying the sensitivity, clarity and freedom that is already there.

Boredom is a bottomless pit. You love your boredom, but all the time you are trying to free yourself from boredom. As long as you think that there is something more interesting, more powerful, more meaningful to do than what you are actually doing, you have no way of freeing yourself from boredom.

What I am trying to say is that you must discover something for yourself. But do not be misled into thinking that what you find will be of use to society, that it can be used to change the world. You are finished with society, that’s all.

It is the continuous thinking that gives the illusion of a coordinator. But here (referring to himself), there is nobody who is coordinating the sensory activity. Sensations occur so fast that there is no way memory can capture that in its framework and say, “This is it”.

Real silence is explosive; it is not that dead state of mind that spiritual seekers think. This is volcanic in its nature. It’s bubbling all the time - the energy, the life - that is its quality.

To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you, nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a natural man.

Whenever such a thing has happened, it happened to those people who had given up completely and totally all their search. That is an absolute requisite for that kind of a thing. The whole movement has to slow down and come to a stop. But anything you do to make it stop is only adding momentum to it. That’s really the crux of the problem.

Why should ‘Life’ have any meaning? Why should there be any purpose to living? Living itself is all that is there. Your search for spiritual meaning has made a problem out of living.

Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.

You forget that everything you have around you is the creation of thought. You are yourself born out of the thought, otherwise you would not be here at all. In that sense it has a tremendous value, yet it is the very thing that will destroy you.

Be selfish, stay selfish! - that is my message. Wanting enlightenment is selfishness. The rich man’s distributing charity is also selfishness; he will be remembered as a generous man; you will put up a statue of him there.

In nature there is no death or destruction at all. What occurs is the reshuffling of atoms. If there is a need or necessary to maintain the balance of ‘energy’ in this universe, death occurs.

I personally feel that there is no power outside of man, you see - no power outside of man - whatever power is out there is inside man. So, if that is the case - and that is a fact to me - there is no point in externalising that power and creating some symbol and worshipping it, you know? So that’s why I say that God, the question of God, is irrelevant to man today.

We never look at anything. It is too dangerous to look because that ‘looking’ destroys the continuity of thinking.

The only way for anyone who is interested in finding out what this is all about is to watch how this separation is occurring, how you are separating yourself from the things that are happening around you and inside of you.

Food, clothing and shelter - these are the three basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.

What I am saying is outside the field of teachability; it is simply a description of the way I am functioning. It is just a description of the natural state of man - that is the way you, stripped of the machinations of thought, are also functioning.

The basic problem is that we have unfortunately divided pain into physical and psychological pain. As I see it, there is no such a thing as psychological pain at all. There is only physical pain.

When thought is not there all the time, what is there is living from moment to moment. It’s all in frames, millions and millions and millions of frames, to put it in the language of film.

If it had not been for culture, the world would have produced more flowers, different kinds and varieties of flowers, not only the one rose that you are so proud of. You want to turn everything into one model. What for?

The so-called self-realisation is the discovery for yourself and by yourself that there is no self to discover. That will be a very shocking thing because it’s going to blast every nerve, every cell, even the cells in the marrow of your bones.