Why is meditation referred to as the art of dying instead of the art of growing?

According to Osho, meditation is called the art of dying because true meditation doesn’t expand the ego—it dissolves it. If he called it ‘growing,’ the ego would feel flattered and cling on. Ego-growth is a cancer that imprisons and suffocates; meditation is its death. He uses the shock of ‘dying’ to bypass ego’s greed and point to liberation through the ego’s disappearance.