Osho Rajneesh says Meditation is Voluntary death

Once, I was listening discourses of Osho Rajneesh. I do not know exactly title of the discourses in English but in Hindi the title was "Mein Mrityu Sikhata hoon". In English it means "I Teach Death". Osho Rajneesh covered lots of points regarding death, meditation and past lives in these discourses. I found them one of the most interesting discourses given by Osho Rajneesh.

During these discourses, he said that meditation is voluntary death. I agree with his explanation completely. In my own words he said something like that

"In meditation, we have to leave ourselves. We have to get rid of whatever we are thinking and desiring. But we are having a strongest bond with our thoughts and desires. So, It requires tremendous courage to leave ourselves because according to us, our existence is only till we have mind. How can we get rid of our thoughts and desires? We feel that because of them we are here in existence. When there is no mind, we would not be there any more. It is same as entering into death. The only difference here is that when people die, they become unconscious at the moment of death. On the other hand, meditation is death in full awareness. In meditation, one can realize that you are not body alone but you are pure consciousness. It is not like after entering in meditation, you have to leave your body but once you enter in meditation, your life will be transformed. You will have sense of other dimension from then. You would not be able to see life as you are seeing now."

Does it appear scary to enter in meditation? That is why Osho Rajneesh called it voluntary death.