"I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you,
just by being a simple witness of your thought processes.
It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before
you. Just witnessing, not interfering, not even judging, because the
moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say
“this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought
process.
It takes a little time to create a gap between the
witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great
surprise: that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a
watcher.
And this process of watching is the very alchemy of
real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in
witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is
utterly empty.
That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the
moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really
free human being."
~Osho
