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Is it necessary to desire and seek truth while avoiding the untrue?

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"Truth is not something to be sought; it is your very essence, revealed when the mind falls silent and the seeker dissolves."

Core Insight:
According to Osho, truth cannot be sought or achieved, because it is already your very being. Seeking and avoiding keep the mind striving and thus missing it. Illusion needs no avoidance—it is what is not. When longing and the achiever’s mind fall silent, and you are empty—even of the idea of emptiness—the ever-present truth reveals itself effortlessly.
Stop chasing truth or fighting illusions; relax into silence, drop even ideas of enlightenment, and you’ll notice you already are what you seek.
Why this matters practically
- Reduces anxious striving and burnout in spiritual practice.
- Encourages present-moment awareness and meditative silence.
- Prevents clinging to experiences or concepts (“spiritual materialism”).
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