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Can psychoanalysis help people know themselves?

Psychoanalysis can only adjust you to society's averages, while true self-knowledge arises through meditation, transforming you into your authentic being.

— Osho
According to Osho, psychoanalysis can offer limited help—preparing the ground, easing tensions, and giving some insight—but it only adjusts the mind to society’s averages. True self-knowledge comes through religion as meditation: aligning with the ultimate norm, godliness. Meditation transforms, gives wings, and leads beyond mere normalcy to authentic being; psychoanalysis is temporary, secondary, even risky for practitioners.

Therapy can help you cope, but meditation lets you truly know who you are.

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