The World's Biggest Problem - OSHO Talks Vol. 3

What is the biggest problem in the world, according to Osho? Man, he answers, the particular man that is you and me. Let's forget the human being, humanity. Reality is individual and we have insisted on denying it, imposing abstractions, universals, the unreal, in short. Do you know what the oft-repeated slogan of living for humanity means? It means that you do not live for yourself, that you deny yourself in your individuality. Yet your life is your own and it is impossible to delegate in it. There is no alternative but to face the need to live it and have the courage to make it genuinely yours. According to Osho: The biggest problem and the smallest problem is the same: man. And when I say man, I don't mean something abstract, I mean, I, you, he, she. There is no man as such, separate from human beings. There is no such thing as humanity; it is just a name. Reality is individual. And the problem arises because reality is not accepted. The expression of the real has been denied; and the unreal, the abstract, has been imposed. It has been told to you continuously,