Core Insight:
According to Osho, unawareness is the all-pervading, sleep-like, mechanical state you are born and live in—so close you don’t notice it—where you react like a robot to buttons pushed by life (anger, lust, jealousy). It’s living without alert witnessing. Recognizing it requires creating a gap—a small inner distance—through watchfulness, as in pausing before reacting; this begins the shift toward awareness.