According to Osho, escaping from oneself means fleeing life’s challenges, relationships, and responsibilities under religious pretexts—outsourcing your conscience to gurus, wearing renunciation as a mask, and turning living into ‘unpleasant duty.’ True religion doesn’t promote flight; it infuses your ordinary home with sacredness, invites intelligent responsibility, and transforms burdens into joyous participation.
It’s when you try to run from your own problems by calling it ‘spiritual,’ instead of staying present, loving, and fixing what’s in front of you.