According to Osho, naming an uncomfortable or painful experience is the ego’s strategy to avoid the humiliation of not-knowing. By pasting a label on the living fact, you gain a false certainty and distance yourself from its fragrance, message, and reality. Labels soothe anxiety and breed judgments, but they don’t touch the thing itself. Transformation begins by dropping names and meeting the experience directly, silently.
Giving your pain a name makes you feel safer, but it stops you from truly feeling and learning from what’s happening.