Core Insight:
According to Osho, neither optimism nor despair begins yoga; it starts only when you drop the entire coin of hope and hopelessness. Total hopelessness means no expectation remains—not even the feeling of being hopeless—so the mind stops projecting a future. Free of clinging to hopes or miseries, you settle in present stillness; only then does Patanjali's Now, the discipline of yoga, truly begin.