Core Insight:
According to Osho, the serious and sad never become enlightened—seriousness is a disease, a ‘cancer of the soul.’ Enlightenment flowers as playfulness, ease, laughter, and a subtle joy, not as grim burden or saviorhood. Dominating, sado‑masochistic types cannot awaken. True awakening drops weighty solemnity and becomes light, childlike, humorous, free of the need to save others: ‘Be a light unto yourself.’