According to Osho, ‘conceptual thought’ is the mind’s habit of spinning ideas from external circumstances, creating labels like ordinary/extraordinary and turning life’s garden into a philosophical desert. Such conceptualizing feeds the ego’s polarities—desire and hatred—by reacting to appearances. Freedom comes not by theorizing but by dropping concepts and resting as pure awareness; in this choiceless seeing, the roots of craving and aversion wither.
When you keep labeling things from the outside, you start chasing or hating them; stop labeling and just be aware, and both chasing and hating fade.