Core Insight:
According to Osho, optimism about the New Man is natural because existence evolves forward, and he senses an imminent dawn of consciousness—the horizon already red, birds singing, flowers opening. Pessimism comes from fixation on the past and addiction to self-created misery. By dropping backward-looking identities and ceasing to 'pedal' suffering, we become available to life, love, and laughter—allowing the New Man to appear.