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19-22 Sep 26. Osho Afroz meditation center.

In this workshop, we will take a close look at our shadow.

We will meet our inner IDIOT.

We all seek joy. Over time, this search can turn into a habit—sometimes even an addiction—of doing only what feels good. We avoid taking part in any thing that might trigger unease, and for sure we do all we can to make no mistakes, dodge failure, and pretend we are not clumsy, incompetent, or lost.

In doing so, we avoid meeting our inner IDIOT. And everyone has one.

We often blame this part of ourselves for anything unwanted or shameful in our lives. We wish it would disappear. We fear its influence and the shame it carries. So we hide it—through control, perfectionism, humor, intelligence, spirituality, or success. We spend enormous amounts of energy suppressing it, masking it, or trying to stay one step ahead of it.

We are afraid it might suddenly reappear and expose us.

And this is how most of us learn to walk through the world.

What if we have it backwards?

I want to suggest that this IDIOT—of all our inner parts—is holding our joy captive.

This awkward, foolish, unpolished part of us is not broken. At its core, it is the silly, innocent, naïve, pure-hearted part of who we are. It is the part that doesn’t know how to perform, impress, or protect itself.

And precisely because of that, it is our most direct connection to joy, beauty, simplicity, and aliveness.