Core Insight:
According to Osho, we fear relaxing into our own self because it demands a psychological death—the dropping of the ego and all borrowed identities. Conditioned by parents, teachers, priests and politicians, we equate letting go with betrayal and risk of hell, so we cling to the unreal self. This inherited fear—greased by greed for heaven—keeps us identified with poison-tree conditioning instead of our existential being.