Core Insight:
According to Osho, your reaction comes from conditioning that equates emptiness with lack. Western mind sees only riktata—the negative absence—so encountering ‘nobody’ (ego gone) feels spooky. But true shunyata is simultaneously empty and full: when the mind’s furniture is removed, pure spaciousness remains, like a hollow bamboo through which existence plays its music. This paradox—he is and is not—makes emptiness fearsome yet awesome, because it reveals living fullness from nothing.