Core Insight:
According to Osho, affirmations cannot decondition the mind; they are the very mechanism of conditioning, whether asserting belief or disbelief. Repetition breeds autohypnosis and imitational certainty. Deconditioning happens only through negation—neti, neti—relentlessly discarding every belief and conclusion until nothing remains. In that contentless emptiness arises a deconditioned 'no-mind,' the freedom to inquire directly without societal imprints or borrowed answers.