What is the relationship between witnessing and awareness in Zen?

According to Osho, in Zen, witnessing is awareness in action: you simply watch, without trying to stop the mind. In such choiceless seeing the 'mind' is exposed as a shadow and drops, revealing no-mind, pure awareness itself. Thus witnessing is the method; awareness/no-mind is the state they unveil.

Quietly watch your thoughts, and the noisy mind fades so clear knowing remains.

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