According to Osho, passivity is still a strategy of the mind—a chosen, negative attitude that merely inverts ambition and keeps desire and ego intact. Flowing with the river requires no-mind: choiceless awareness, trust, and spontaneous participation without resistance or cultivated posture. Passivity escapes and renounces; flowing surrenders and dissolves the chooser, allowing life to move through you.
Being passive is just the mind doing “nothing” as a tactic; flowing means dropping the tactic, trusting life, and responding freely in the moment.