Rajneesh Enlightenment Quotations

That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You cannot be totally relaxed right now. At the innermost core a tension will persist.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter

Enlightenment is when all hope disappears. Enlightenment is disappearance of hope.

God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go.

Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.

Enlightenment happens only in that moment when there is no complaint in you,when you are not going anywhere, not desiring, not condemning, not judging.You simply exist and with total acceptance. This moment there is enlightenment.

Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point - now and here.

Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great intelligence. To see the point of surrender is the climax of insight; to see the point that you are not separate from existence is the highest that intelligence can give to you.

Enlightenment is choicelessness. But don`t misunderstand me. Before that, you will have to move very cautiously, choosing the right against the wrong, choosing the truer so that you can reach to the ultimate truth.

Nothing has to be changed, because all is beautiful - that is enlightenment. All is as it should be, everything is perfect. This is the most perfect world, this moment lacks nothing - the experience of this is what enlightenment is.

Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second.

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path

Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.