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What is the sutra for avoiding the horizontal journey?

Do not avoid the horizontal journey; embrace it with total awareness, for only through acceptance can the compulsion dissolve and a vertical shift become possible.

— Osho
According to Osho, the sutra is paradoxical: do not avoid the horizontal journey. Avoidance sustains the very movement you wish to escape. Enter it with total awareness, meet it fully, and through non-avoidance the compulsion dissolves and a vertical shift becomes possible. Acceptance and presence transform; escape entangles.

To stop going in circles, don’t run away—face what’s here with full awareness.