According to Osho, to escape is the ego’s reflex to flee when living truth confronts and shocks you. Instead of staying, digesting, and meditating on the master’s jolt that dismantles your ideas, you run back to comforting fantasies and bookish interpretations. Escape means protecting your ‘shock absorbers’—your conditioning and personality—rather than allowing them to be destroyed so a new, fresh life can be born.
Escaping means running away from the hard truth that could crack your old habits, instead of staying and letting it change you.