According to Osho, human suffering is self-created: we demand freedom on our terms while clinging to the very desires—respect, status, one-sided pleasures—that generate pain. Craving splits life’s inseparable polarities (honor/insult, rest/work), trapping us in a vicious circle. Deliverance lies in insight that sees cause and effect, and in dropping ambition and the hunger for respect—standing last—which ends the possibility of insult.
We suffer because we want praise and comfort without their opposites; peace comes by seeing this link and letting go of the urge to be first or admired.