“Osho’s New Man: The Only One Who Qualifies Is Still in a Nappy.”

Bodhangkur

Osho loved advertising a creature he called “The New Man.”
A magical adult, apparently:

· spontaneous

· unconditioned

· guilt-free

· perfectly integrated

· and dancing his way into the sunrise

Lovely picture.
But here’s the blunt druidic truth:

No adult qualifies. Not even close.

To be spontaneous without self-contradiction, guilt, jealousy, borrowed morality, inherited scripts, or future projections, you’d need one thing:

a brain that hasn’t yet developed any of that.

In other words, Osho’s New Man is not a sage.
He is not enlightened.
He is not achieved through meditation, therapy, or spiritual aerobics.

He is simply the newborn baby.

A perfect little procedural unit, maximally confined by biology and circumstance,
and thereby—paradoxically—perfectly free.

No repression? Correct.
The baby can’t repress anything.
No morality? Correct.
The baby hasn’t learned the local tribal commandments.
No inner division?
Correct again.
The baby isn’t yet running a two-storey consciousness with a watcher loft extension.
No fear of the future?
Perfect: the baby doesn’t possess the concept of future.
Spontaneous?
Absolutely. Every action is live broadcast.

The irony is exquisite:

Osho’s New Man is exactly what every adult has been desperately trying to recover after spending decades escaping it.

Meanwhile Finn, with less incense and more logic, just states the fact plainly:

“The perfect slave is free.”

Because when you are totally governed by your own constraints—
not fighting yourself, not contradicting yourself, not running borrowed software—
you operate freely.

The baby does this naturally.
The adult must pretend.
And most spiritual teachers sell the pretending as a product.

So here’s the punchline:

The New Man has already arrived.
He arrived screaming, covered in vernix, and demanded milk.
Then we ruined him.

Be well,

The perfect slave is free
Adults as corruptions

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