Should a seeker cultivate the witness or enter into desire to learn its futility or meaningfulness?
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outcome
"Enter into desire with the inner witness, for it is through conscious participation that you will discover its futility and dissolve it naturally."
According to Osho, if desire truly isn’t there, nothing needs doing; but if lust exists, don’t repress it or escape—enter the experience while firmly keeping the inner witness. Conscious participation becomes the touchstone that refines awareness, reveals desire’s futility, and dissolves it naturally. Avoid clever renunciations like avoiding marriage; suppression breeds perversions, while witnessing-in-action matures into genuine desirelessness.
If you feel desire, go through it while watching inside; if you don’t feel it, there’s nothing to do.
Why this matters practically
- Prevents repression and the rise of psychological perversions.
- Builds real witnessing by testing awareness in daily life.
- Lets desire fade naturally through understanding, not force.
- Builds real witnessing by testing awareness in daily life.
- Lets desire fade naturally through understanding, not force.
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