According to Osho, when we can’t settle into what is, we escape into claims and postponements: we may insist ‘I am enlightened’ or promise ‘it will happen tomorrow,’ deceiving others while knowing inside it hasn’t happened. This breeds doubt and an endless deferral—birth after birth. Awakening is not gradual; it flowers only in the urgency of today, in immediate, unpostponed presence.
If you don’t rest in the present, you’ll keep making stories or waiting for tomorrow, and awakening never comes.