Osho talk on various topics
The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot, and because you have agreed to be a robot you are in trouble. You are not a robot.
That was not the intention of nature, to make a robot of you. So because you are not what you were meant to be, what you were destined to be, you are constantly looking: "What is missing ?
Perhaps better furniture, better curtains, a better house, a better husband, a better wife, a better job..." Your whole life you are trying and rushing from one place to another. But the society has distracted you from the very beginning. My effort is to bring you back to yourself, and you will suddenly find all that discontent has disappeared. There is no need to be more -- you are enough. Everybody is enough.
Osho
Man lives like a robot: mechanically efficient, but with no awareness. Hence the whole problem! There are so many problems man has to face, but they are all by-products of his sleep. So the first thing to be understood is what this sleep consists in -- because Zen is an effort to become alert and awake. All religion is nothing but that: an effort to become more
conscious, an effort to become more aware, an effort to bring more alertness, more attentiveness to your life.
Osho
The society succeeds the day your center goes into a coma and your circumference remains functioning. Then you are a robot,
a machine, no more a man. Because we function from the circumference Buddhas look so unreal -- of course, because they
function from a totally different center. That's why I say that unless you are in contact with a living Buddha, you will
never believe that YOU can become a Buddha. But a living Buddha also, slowly slowly, appears far away. It is because of
your mind working; it is a strategy of the mind to save itself from going through that revolution. So you create a distance
-- it is imaginary.