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Are techniques and shortcuts against the nature of Tao?

Techniques are mere crutches for the seeker; true liberation lies in the effortless surrender to the natural flow of Tao.

— Osho
According to Osho, techniques and shortcuts are against Tao because Tao is swabhav—effortless naturalness—and any method brings effort, goal, time and future. The real 'method' is surrender: a total let-go, immediate and non-temporal, a no-technique. Still, for those who cannot simply surrender and keep asking 'how,' techniques are temporary crutches to exhaust the seeking and eventually drop into surrender.

Let go and float with life; if you can do that now, no tricks are needed—if you can’t, use practices only until you’re ready to drop them.

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