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What is the significance of naming or labeling concepts?

Names are mere tools of thought that bind us to the illusion of the ego; true reality exists beyond labels, in the nameless presence of pure being.

— Osho
According to Osho, names and labels are only pragmatic tools within thought; they stitch together aggregates (like 'chariot' or 'Nagasena') and crystallize the egoic 'I.' Beyond thought, reality is a nameless presence—pure being—where personal and collective distinctions vanish. Mistaking labels for reality breeds ignorance; liberation is freedom from the labeler itself.

Names help us talk, but they aren’t what things truly are; underneath all labels is just quiet being.

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