The Indian word is darshan and its approach is totally different. It means an inquiry to see the truth. Darshan means seeing. It is not a question of thinking. A blind man can think about the light and can be a great philosopher, can propose hypotheses about light. In India there has never existed anything like philosophy. What has existed is seeing. We want to see the light, we don’t want to philosophize about it.
-Osho, “Om Mani Padme Hum, #20”
You cannot think about truth, because thinking will be done by your mind, which is full of lies, nothing but lies. How are you going to think about truth? Truth can be found only when you have put the mind aside.
In the East we say truth is the experience that happens in the state of no-mind or in the state of beyond mind. But in the West the very idea has not existed. That will make one thing clear to you: philosophy is a Western thing. In the East there is nothing like philosophy.
It is very strange: the East is far older, at least ten thousand years old, but there is nothing like philosophy in the East. What is called Eastern philosophy is a wrong name. In the East it is called darshan. Darshan means to see; it has nothing to do with thinking. The very word darshan means to see. [....]
Darshan – philosia – is a totally different approach. It is by witnessing your mind, not by thinking, but just becoming a watcher of your mind and creating a distance between you and your thoughts. Just seeing them, as if you are on a hill and the whole mind and its traffic is going on down in the valley, a moment comes when thoughts start disappearing because their life is in the identity. Their life is the life of a parasite; they suck your blood.
-Osho, “Beyond Psychology, #39”