According to Osho, when you inquire deeply, the socially conditioned, false identity collapses—especially in solitude—triggering fear, loneliness, and a disorienting ‘dark night of the soul.’ In this gap you are no longer the false, not yet the real. Rather than doing, simply be: meditate as silent, relaxed aloneness. With patience, old habits fade and your authentic being naturally asserts itself.
Look closely at who you think you are, and the pretend mask falls off—scary and empty at first—but if you sit quietly alone, the real you appears.