Is man the purpose of all evolution?
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"Existence is a playful dance, not a business plan; true creativity and love arise when we dissolve the doer and embrace the art of living for its own sake."
According to Osho, man is not the purpose of evolution; in fact, evolution has no purpose at all. Existence is playful (leela), not a business plan. Purpose-thinking is an egoic, marketplace habit that divides means and ends and cripples creativity, love, and meditation. Live artfully and totally—doing for its own sake, dissolving the doer—rather than chasing goals or anthropocentric fantasies.
No, people aren’t the goal; life is just playing, so do things for their own joy, not to get something.
Why this matters practically
- Reduces anxiety by freeing you from constant goal-chasing and comparisons.
- Deepens presence and creativity: act for its own sake and enter flow.
- Cultivates love and meditation as ends in themselves, not transactions.
- Deepens presence and creativity: act for its own sake and enter flow.
- Cultivates love and meditation as ends in themselves, not transactions.
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