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Why are the masses often against enlightened beings like Jesus and Buddha?

The masses resist enlightened beings because their presence shatters the comforting illusions of their identities, forcing them to confront the painful choice between the familiar and the unknown. In their fear of transformation, they often choose to destroy the disturber rather than awaken to their own potential.

— Osho
According to Osho, the masses resist enlightened beings because they live as a herd, invested in habits, identities, and comforting sleep. A Buddha’s presence exposes their inner bankruptcy, shatters borrowed certainties, and forces a risky choice toward freedom and the unknown. Feeling humiliated and uprooted, people prefer the familiar group and destroy the disturber rather than transform themselves.

People dislike awakened teachers because they shake our comfy illusions and ask us to leave the crowd and change, which feels scary.

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