So much of the experience of everyday life, says Osho in this insightful guide, is shaped by religious and social conditioning — and we are not even aware of the fact. We are constantly being pulled away from the unique nature that is our birth-right. In place of that original and unique self, a false self called the "ego" is constructed that eventually gains control of our creativity, our ideas about what it means to be successful, our relationships, and our very experience of who we are. At the same time, he argues, the collection of egos known as "society" shapes our political, educational, and religious institutions, which in turn combine to force the same old patterns onto new generations. Osho shows how to discard these old patterns in favor of a new and nurturing trinity of watchfulness, awareness, and alertness. — This video is available for translation as part of the OSHO TALKS Video Translation Project. -- Join the project as a translator at: www.oshotalks.info -- OSHO International Foundation www.osho.com