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Does awareness and knowledge enrich and deepen a person's life?

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"Awareness enriches life by expanding your being, but true depth comes only when you transcend knowledge into Enlightenment, where awareness and bliss unite, and suffering dissolves."

Core Insight:
According to Osho, awareness and knowledge do enrich life: as awareness widens, your very being expands, revealing multi-dimensional depth. Yet this growth brings suffering, which he calls a necessary fertilizer for richness and sensitivity. Knowledge is a tense, transitional state—awareness without bliss—meant to be transcended into Enlightenment, where awareness and bliss unite and suffering ends.
Yes—being more awake makes you bigger inside; it may hurt for a while, but that hurt helps you grow until you can be awake and peaceful at once.
Why this matters practically
- Embrace the discomfort of awareness as growth.
- Practice mindfulness to expand sensitivity without collapse.
- Use knowledge as a bridge toward enlightened, blissful awareness.
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