Why do people attribute the natural joy and happiness of others to brainwashing, hypnosis, or drugs?
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"People label the joy of others as brainwashing because they cannot fathom genuine happiness; their own lives are filled with pretended smiles and projected misery, leading them to believe that true celebration must be a trick."
According to Osho, people label others’ natural joy as brainwashing, hypnosis, or drugs because they cannot imagine genuine happiness; they live in pretended smiles, daily deceptions, and projected misery, so they assume others must be faking or manipulated too. Their minds demand a trick behind sustained celebration. But true joy needs no external controller; hypnosis and drugs only produce mechanical, lifeless states, not radiant, self-arising bliss.
People who live with fake smiles think real happiness must be fake too, so they blame brainwashing or drugs.
Why this matters practically
- Notice and drop projections that turn wonder into suspicion.
- Seek firsthand experience instead of cynical explanations.
- Choose authentic relating over social pretense.
- Seek firsthand experience instead of cynical explanations.
- Choose authentic relating over social pretense.
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