Core Insight:
According to Osho, meditation parallels auto-suggestion only at the outset; it then goes beyond. Hypnosis/auto-hypnosis dims consciousness, induces trance and sleep, making you passive and suggestible to another's will. Meditation is an active, intensely alert process: deep breathing, total expression, and the question "Who am I?" that heightens energy and awareness. Both use suggestion, but meditation awakens; hypnosis anesthetizes. The aim is sovereignty and presence, not sleep.