Core Insight:
According to Osho, the rush for 'instant enlightenment' springs from the modern pathology of excessive time-consciousness: a Western, one-life worldview that breeds urgency, intensified by nuclear-age insecurity and politicians’ power to end life suddenly. Post–World War II generations feel 'now or never,' creating inner tension. This anxiety demands immediacy, yet the very tension it creates actually obstructs enlightenment’s flowering.