According to Osho, being overwhelmed by thoughts means you’re pushing against them, mistaking their apparent strength for your own wrong approach. Thoughts are like darkness: they don’t leave by struggle; they dissolve when the lamp of witnessing is lit. A guru can diagnose and point to this remedy, but only you can practice non-identification—sitting apart, watching thoughts pass—until their grip naturally disappears.
Don’t fight your busy mind; just watch thoughts come and go like cars, and they lose power—your teacher can show this, but you have to do the watching.