According to Osho, you don’t understand just by passively showing up and sitting; sitting on assumptions is self-deception. Real understanding arises only through direct, present experience—when hunger bites, when someone insults you, with the slightest shove. Such lived shocks strip away imagination and belief, letting awareness verify truth for itself rather than relying on secondhand ideas.
You can’t really understand by just sitting and thinking; real life’s pokes—hunger, insult, a push—show you what’s true.