According to Osho, Nietzsche’s lake symbolizes human energy leaking outward—to objects, power, even God—causing inner emptiness. The ‘dam’ should be read symbolically: meditation gathers dispersed energy inward, so it rises upward and sinks deeper simultaneously, like a tree’s trunk and roots. Properly centered, energy unites material rootedness with spiritual flowering, making man whole—neither ascetic repression nor mere outward pursuit.
Instead of letting your energy spill everywhere, hold it inside with meditation so you feel full and can grow strong like a tree with deep roots and high branches.