What is the nature of common sense?
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"Common sense is the clarity that emerges when you embrace your ordinariness, shedding the ego's desire to be special, allowing you to return to your true nature—silent, effortless wisdom. In this egoless simplicity, you discover natural joy and the profound intelligence of being a nobody."
According to Osho, common sense is the clarity that arises from embracing ordinariness and dropping the ego’s hunger to be special. When you settle into simple innocence—being a nobody—you return to your real nature, a silent, effortless wisdom he calls buddha-being. In that egoless simplicity there is natural joy and rightness; you become an emperor without an empire, moving through life with unforced, awake intelligence.
Common sense is being happily ordinary—drop trying to be special, relax into simple presence, and your natural clear wisdom appears.
Why this matters practically
- Lowers anxiety by ending the exhausting chase to be special.
- Improves decisions and relationships through humility and clear seeing.
- Opens access to innate joy and freedom in everyday moments.
- Improves decisions and relationships through humility and clear seeing.
- Opens access to innate joy and freedom in everyday moments.
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