Core Insight:
According to Osho, you’re miserable because what you call “religious life” is mere moral cultivation and repression, not religion. Religion isn’t effort, practice, or fixed character; it’s awareness—a fluid, moment-to-moment responsiveness. Clinging to rigid rules creates inner conflict and egoic stiffness, like dry wood in wind. True religiosity is flexible, like grass: it bows, relaxes, and returns, free of repression.