Core Insight:
According to Osho, god-oriented religion is a fear-based fiction sustained by beliefs, priests, and imposed rules, producing hypocrisy, violence, and spiritual slavery. Religiousness is not belief in God but an inner awakening: a direct, silent encounter with truth that requires no arguments, dissolves fear and tension, and flowers spontaneously into compassion, freedom, bliss, and authenticity. Liberation begins by dropping God and turning within to one’s own center.