10/06/2026
"How I got enlightened?
Being authentic, absolutely authentic. When I came to Osho, all what mattered to me, I want to know about life and death. I want to know about this as well, what is it about this life which was always a miracle to me but has this fear I have to die? Somewhere I feel cheated by that, what a mess, right? It's like Buddha. Buddha he was a son of a king. The people who look into the stars, into the future about the son they said that this son has the potential to become a master or a leader, something very special. So the parents were very worried that if he would go on the spiritual path he would become just a nobody. Maybe he will start cleaning the roads. It's bound to be like that, he will no more look to be somebody special, so the parents were very afraid that he could go in this direction. So what they did, they tried that this son should never come to know that death exists. So there were flowers in his room, but before they died they would remove these flowers so he would never come to know that these flowers to a certain point will simply die. So somehow, I don't know how, they managed that this son never came to know that there is going to be death. Authenticity brought me home. I never wanted to be special.But there was a time when he accidentally came out of the gate, was illegal, he went out of the gate and people passed by—a group, a line of people and they were carrying a person, lying on something, were carrying that person and this son of the King he asked one of these people what happened to this person lying there. What has happened to this person? Where are you going? They said, this man he has died and we are going to bring him to the funeral and we are going to burn his body. Now this Buddha was really shocked. My God! This person died, there is death. He was in such a shock that this pushed him, or gave him the idea that I have to come to know what is all about this life and death. I have to come to know before death comes. What is all about this miracle? I want to know only that. And it was very similar for me as well, because I was in a car accident when I was seven years old, and this question was always in my mind. Through this accident, I came to know that this body could drop anytime, school or nothing else was anymore important after that. I just wanted to live. I was almost in a panic, this body could drop anytime. I had no time even to read a book, I wanted to live, I wanted to travel, I wanted to see, I wanted to meet people who knew what was going on, who knew all about this life and death. Authenticity brought me home. I never wanted to be special. I didn't want to become enlightened, to become somebody special at all."
—Dolano
