According to Osho, man cultivates complexity because the ego craves difficult challenges and status; the simple threatens the ego’s very survival. Families, schools, religions, and vested interests program us to ‘become somebody,’ making ambition and comparison perpetual. Complexity thus feeds a diseased ego and social control, while our original nature is simple being—health, wholeness, and peace found by dropping ego-driven becoming.
We make life complicated to feel important because we’re taught to chase and compare, but real ease comes from being simple and letting the ego go.