“The Buddha said: “The best path to truth is to be free from attachment and suffering.”” This simple sentence contains his entire teaching. These are two sides of the same phenomenon, two sides of the coin - to be free from attachments and not to suffer. You cannot get rid of suffering while you have attachments, and you cannot get rid of attachments while suffering is with you. These things are inseparable, each of them helps to achieve the other. Why does a person suffer so much? Why so much anxiety and torment? Why can’t a person be calm, collected, focused? Too many attachments pull a person this way and that, push him in different directions, he is torn into pieces, loses integrity and forgets what his essence is. If you are greedy for money - who are you, what is your essence? You are only greed for money and nothing else. If you are angry, your ego is hurt - who are you? You are only anger, wounded ego, nothing else. If you are full of sexual passion - who are you? You are only sexuality, libido, nothing else. If you are ambitious, want to have power, prestige, respectability, who are you? You are just an ambition and nothing else. Look closely and you will find many desires in yourself, but you will not find yourself.” The book “The Buddha Once Said” contains lectures by the greatest sage of our time, given by Osho from August 21 to October 30, 1976 in Indian city of Pune.