Core Insight:
According to Osho, happiness is not fixed; it depends on your consciousness. When you are asleep (unaware), you mistake bodily sensations—food, sex, thrills—for happiness; they are brief, tied to fear and inevitably followed by pain in the duality of life. As awareness awakens, happiness shifts from sensation to a relaxed inner ease beyond the pleasure–pain pendulum, born of watchfulness rather than stimulation.