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OSHO Singles
Why Is Communication So Difficult, Particularly Between Lovers?
In the OSHO Singles series of selected talks, Osho addresses major questions and issues of our daily life. With depth and his usual humor we get a chance to look at an issue from a new perspective. Communication between lovers is an issue almost everybody has to deal with and Osho gives a very unique insight to this question:
"Communication as such is difficult. Of course it is more difficult between lovers. But first you have to understand the general difficulty of communication. Each mind has been conditioned by different parents, different teachers, different priests, and different politicians...and when two minds try to communicate, as far as the ordinary mundane things are concerned, there is no difficulty. But the moment they start moving beyond things into the world of concepts, communication starts becoming more and more difficult."
"Communication as such is difficult. Of course it is more difficult between lovers. But first you have to understand the general difficulty of communication. Each mind has been conditioned by different parents, different teachers, different priests, and different politicians...and when two minds try to communicate, as far as the ordinary mundane things are concerned, there is no difficulty. But the moment they start moving beyond things into the world of concepts, communication starts becoming more and more difficult."
- GenresPhilosophy
24 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 30, 2012
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Osho
4,288 books6,703 followersRajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
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September 29, 2019
You can't review Osho's books, you can only take notes of them and this is one such book.
Communication as such is difficult. Of course it is more difficult between lovers. But first we have to understand the general difficulty of communication. Each mind has been conditioned by different parents, different teachers, different priests, and different politicians...and when two minds try to communicate, as far as the ordinary mundane things are concerned, there is no difficulty. But the moment they start moving beyond things into the world of concepts, communication starts becoming more and more difficult. Same word start to bear different meanings for different minds. How to communicate? On each single word we have different opinions, prejudices, conditions. The words are the same, but the moment we say them, and the other hears them, they are not hearing the same meaning, they hear a different meaning.
Osho explains it with the example word God. He goes on explaining what a Buddhist* hears when he says the word God, and what a christian** hears when he says the word God.
[Explanation*:
*For a Buddhist this existence is ever evolving. For them God is inside. Everyone is moving towards becoming God. For them highest consciousness is God. Thus for them there is no concept of God.
**Christian. As for Christians God created everything for them. This whole existence is result of God. They even have the concepts of Heaven and Hell after death.]
Now for a man and a Woman communication is even more difficult because feminine mind functions differently and a masculine mind functions differently. A man's and a woman's mind is conditioned in a certain manner. Now they have to remain together for 24*7 and it becomes heavy because whatever the man says, the woman hears something else. The woman is not much in the head, she is much more in the heart; the man is much more in the head. that creates a great disparity.
Lovers, unless they come to a state of meditative consciousness, will not be able to communicate. Their communication is always be a conflict. It will never be a communion. The only possibility is that if both evolve their consciousness to a point where it goes beyond the mind, then all conditionings are left behind. Even the biological differences are left behind. The consciousness that goes beyond mind is no longer male, no longer female. This world will be a better place when a Man and a woman have a very deeper understanding.
Finally, the book ends with an extension chapter about the drastic effects of Unconsciousness, what it can do to mankind. Editors managed to throw in three to four jokes told by Osho during his discourses in the mix to make it little interesting.
Communication as such is difficult. Of course it is more difficult between lovers. But first we have to understand the general difficulty of communication. Each mind has been conditioned by different parents, different teachers, different priests, and different politicians...and when two minds try to communicate, as far as the ordinary mundane things are concerned, there is no difficulty. But the moment they start moving beyond things into the world of concepts, communication starts becoming more and more difficult. Same word start to bear different meanings for different minds. How to communicate? On each single word we have different opinions, prejudices, conditions. The words are the same, but the moment we say them, and the other hears them, they are not hearing the same meaning, they hear a different meaning.
Osho explains it with the example word God. He goes on explaining what a Buddhist* hears when he says the word God, and what a christian** hears when he says the word God.
[Explanation*:
*For a Buddhist this existence is ever evolving. For them God is inside. Everyone is moving towards becoming God. For them highest consciousness is God. Thus for them there is no concept of God.
**Christian. As for Christians God created everything for them. This whole existence is result of God. They even have the concepts of Heaven and Hell after death.]
Now for a man and a Woman communication is even more difficult because feminine mind functions differently and a masculine mind functions differently. A man's and a woman's mind is conditioned in a certain manner. Now they have to remain together for 24*7 and it becomes heavy because whatever the man says, the woman hears something else. The woman is not much in the head, she is much more in the heart; the man is much more in the head. that creates a great disparity.
Lovers, unless they come to a state of meditative consciousness, will not be able to communicate. Their communication is always be a conflict. It will never be a communion. The only possibility is that if both evolve their consciousness to a point where it goes beyond the mind, then all conditionings are left behind. Even the biological differences are left behind. The consciousness that goes beyond mind is no longer male, no longer female. This world will be a better place when a Man and a woman have a very deeper understanding.
Finally, the book ends with an extension chapter about the drastic effects of Unconsciousness, what it can do to mankind. Editors managed to throw in three to four jokes told by Osho during his discourses in the mix to make it little interesting.
May 15, 2019
Why is communication so difficult?
I gave it 1 star because the idea behind the lines was obtained.
it's magnificent. I wanted more. Needed more.
I gave it 1 star because the idea behind the lines was obtained.
it's magnificent. I wanted more. Needed more.
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