According to Osho, humanity isn’t newly miserable; it has always lived in misery made invisible by its nearness and by age-old conditioning. We worship the very sources—religious prophets, political leaders, moral lawgivers—whose doctrines camouflage life’s stench with fragrant words. Only a childlike, fresh vision that looks behind these decorations can expose the real causes and end inherited suffering.
We stay unhappy because we trust old authorities and pretty ideas that hide the mess, instead of looking freshly for ourselves.