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What is the experience of madness in the search for truth?

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True madness is the mind's tyranny, while the authentic search for truth transcends it, revealing a profound inner silence and freedom that society may deem insane.

— Osho

According to Osho, 'madness' arises when the mind—trained by society for ambition, competition, and power—overheats with jealousy, anger, and greed; it isn’t truth but the mind’s tyranny. The real search for truth goes beyond mind through meditation, giving inner silence, love, freedom, and self-mastery. To society it seems mad, yet it is authentic sanity.

Chasing mind-made goals makes you crazy; meditation calms the mind so you stay truly sane, even if others think you’re odd.

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