According to Osho, thought, belief, and affirmations can only rearrange the surface of your personality; they cannot touch the depth of being. Using them becomes self-hypnosis—like acting peaceful while boiling inside. Such conditioning breeds ego and delusion. Real transformation happens when the ocean changes, not its waves; therefore rely on direct inner seeing rather than manufactured attitudes.
Using thoughts to change yourself is like painting water—it may look different briefly, but nothing inside really changes.