Core Insight:
According to Osho, yes—we forget our inherent enlightenment at a precise moment: when memory and language crystallize, around age three for girls and four for boys. As attention turns outward, we begin remembering the world and, in that very shift, forget our own being. A growing wall of memories then hides the early, moment-to-moment innocence where no past or future existed—our original, luminous state.