According to Osho, preoccupation is prejudice, pride, and the past: arriving in the present already loaded with beliefs and interpretations. It dulls the mind, borrows its seeing, and filters reality through conditioning, so you miss what is. Drop all preoccupations to be fresh and unoccupied—an empty, alert awareness through which meditation, satori, and the living presence of God are realized.
Being preoccupied means your head is so full of old ideas that you can’t see or hear what’s really happening now.