Buddhas Quotes and Sayings

• Meditation has nothing to do with achieving a result. It is not a matter of breathing in a particular way, or looking at your nose, or awakening the power to perform certain tricks, or any of the rest of that immature nonsense....Meditation is not something apart from life. When you are driving a car or sitting in a bus, when you are chatting aimlessly, when you are walking by yourself in a wood or watching a butterfly being carried along by the wind—to be choicelessly aware of all that is part of meditation. - J Krishnamurti
   

• Meditation is the deepest sleep. It is total relaxation plus something more; you are totally relaxed and yet alert. Awareness is there. Total sleep with awareness is meditation. Fully alert, things are happening but you are not resisting, not fighting, not doing. The doer is not there. The doer has gone into sleep. Only a witness is there a `non-doer alertness’ is there. Then nothing can disturb you.- Osho
   

• i just drowned deeper and deeper
  my daily activities continued to find deep changes
  my physical movements and simple day to day actions
  were becoming more graceful
  i stopped doing meditations…meditativeness became my life
  a relaxed watchful awareness took over my every footstep
  my every gesture my every look my way of standing my way
  of sitting washing the dishes taking a bath brushing my teeth
  zen is a living experience…a way of living meditatively - Swami Rajneesh
   

• Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind. - Osho
   

• We depend on somebody to tell us how to act, how to think, in other words our system of upbringing is based on what to think and not how to think and hence we need leaders. And I assure you the present chaos does not demand new leaders. It does demand something totally different, that is, for each individual to become a light to himself and not be dependent on somebody else. And that requires great effort and understanding on the part of each one of us. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
   

• A buddha will help you to relax, because only in your deep relaxation will you also become a buddha. There is no other way. - Osho
   

• Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity. - Jiddu Krishnamurti