According to Osho, Buddha’s disciples were no different from people today: they carried the same greed, anger, and possessiveness—hence Buddha’s disciplines. Humans exist in two modes: asleep (unaware) or awake (self-aware); awakening is a jump that ends these tendencies. The text doesn’t stress humor about flaws; it emphasizes the timeless sameness of human nature and the transforming leap into awareness.
They struggled like us, and only by waking up inside—not by joking about it—do those struggles end.