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What are the ten commandments in comparison to the six requests?

The ten commandments impose a rigid structure on the soul, while the six requests invite you to embrace your humanity and simply be a rose in full bloom.

— Osho
According to Osho, the 'ten commandments' symbolize religion’s authoritarian, superhuman ideals—arbitrary in number (ten feels 'complete' only because of our ten fingers) and destructive to authentic humanity. His 'six requests' are not orders but invitations: modest, human-scale pointers to let a rose be a rose—drop the ego’s superhuman fantasies and simply flower as you are.

Big strict rules try to make you superhuman; Osho’s gentle requests invite you to be truly human and grow naturally.

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