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Is there observation or reality in the mind?

True observation is a silent seeing that transcends the mind's language, for reality cannot be captured in words but only glimpsed in the stillness of insight.

— Osho
According to Osho, neither observation nor reality resides in the mind’s language. Absolute reality is glimpsed as insight that happens outside the senses and their words; once translated into concepts, it is inevitably distorted—'painting the demon black.' True observation is a silent seeing beyond sensory coinage and mental labels, which the mind can only approximate, never capture.

Reality isn’t inside your thinking; you meet it in silent awareness before words.

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