Core Insight:
According to Osho, a child’s emptiness is natural, unearned, and unconscious—an innocent, animal-like absence of ego that lacks awareness, backbone, and contrast, and must be lost. A Buddha’s childlikeness is the same purity returned through the full circle: tested by life, ripened by suffering, and illuminated by mindfulness. It is conscious, centered, resilient innocence—freedom known after prison, a circumference rooted in its center.