Core Insight:
According to Osho, bigotry and prejudice are the crowd’s blind, jealous certainties about how truth must look—rigid moral pictures (like nudity or omniscience) imposed on the awakened. Dictat is the mob’s demand that sages conform to its expectations to earn respectability. The mystic’s way is to ignore such coercion, refuse borrowed standards, and act from spontaneity and consciousness rather than public approval.