Are we lost in thought and found again in meditation?
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outcome
"In the silence of no-thought, you discover that losing yourself is the ultimate freedom, revealing the impersonal bliss of pure consciousness."
According to Osho, ordinarily thought makes you lost and meditation makes you found, but in true Zen vision there is neither losing nor finding—only silence. The ‘I’ is just a bundle of thoughts; when thoughts cease, you also vanish. What remains is pure consciousness, impersonal bliss. Losing yourself in no-thought is freedom; presence without a self.
Thinking creates a pretend ‘me,’ while meditation lets that pretend ‘me’ drop so only quiet, happy awareness remains.
Why this matters practically
- Stop chasing a ‘better me’; cultivate silent presence instead.
- Suffer less by seeing thoughts and identity as passing, not solid.
- Use playful tools (e.g., wholehearted laughter) to dissolve the sense of ‘I’.
- Suffer less by seeing thoughts and identity as passing, not solid.
- Use playful tools (e.g., wholehearted laughter) to dissolve the sense of ‘I’.
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