Core Insight:
According to Osho, Buddha’s wish for enlightenment was indeed a desire—and it trapped him in a vicious circle for six years. Realization arrived only when all desiring and the ‘achieving mind’ dropped; then the self withered and awakening happened effortlessly. Enlightenment is not accomplished by effort or search; it happens when craving ceases and one steps outside the mind’s doer, beyond striving.