Originality

Q: Has any man in the world ever been able to say something original?

According to Osho, in religion no one can say anything original—and yet every enlightened one speaks originally. Truth is one and timeless; the knower dissolves, so among awakened ones nothing is new. But to those without direct experience, each living utterance sounds shockingly new. Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Jesus voice the same essence, freshly.

Q: What is it to be original?

According to Osho, to be original is to remain as you were born—fresh, unconditioned, free of society’s garbage of theology, manners, and ideology. The original man is the opposite of the hypocrite: natural, unpredictable, individual, rooted in inner silence and direct experience, not in borrowed knowledge. He refuses conditioning, lives like a living plant, responsive and alive.

Originality

Originality blossoms in the purity of one’s true self, untouched by societal conditioning, embodying the essence of nature—unpredictable and vibrant—where inner silence guides direct experience, free from the constraints of borrowed beliefs and ideologies.