Core Insight:
According to Osho, yes—childhood “innocence” and adolescent idealism must be shattered. Both are coverings: childhood is layered with social conditioning, and youth’s ideals are a romantic, hormonal hallucination. When these illusions collapse, one can see without borrowed beliefs or biological fever and discover values born of awareness, experience, and meditation—authentic, individuated, and mature rather than utopian, secondhand, or compulsively driven.