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What is the significance of paradoxes in understanding truth?

Paradoxes are the hammers that shatter the ego's need for consistency, allowing you to slip beyond the logical mind into the radiant truth of your being.

— Osho
According to Osho, paradoxes are a deliberate device to baffle and exhaust the logical mind so you can slip beyond it into direct glimpses of the transcendental. A Master’s contradictions aren’t doctrine but an operation—a hammer shattering mental habits and the ego’s need for consistency. When logic collapses, the clouds part: brief, sunlit moments reveal that you are more than mind, initiating real understanding.

Paradoxes confuse your thinking on purpose so it quiets down, and in that quiet you can feel the deeper truth beyond thoughts.

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