OSHO
OSHO TALKS: silence shared in words
OSHO International Foundation presents
Osho: Why is Communication so Difficult, Particularly between Lovers?
These discourses are the foundations of your meditation.
Sitting with me in these discourses is nothing but creating more and more meditativeness in you.
I don't speak to teach something; I speak to create something.
These are not lectures; these are simply a device for you to become silent. -- Osho
Why is communication so difficult,
particularly between lovers?
Premda,
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, different politicians.
It is a different world in itself.
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.
For example,
Gautam the Buddha
does not have any God
in his philosophy.
He is far more
free from God than even Friedrich Nietzsche.
At least Friedrich Nietzsche
states that God is dead.
The implication is clear that
it used to be alive, now it is dead.
Gautam Buddha does not talk about God at all.
It is so irrelevant
that he does not pay any attention to the subject.
Now to a Christian, or to a Hindu, or to a Mohammedan,
it is impossible to conceive of a religion without God.
God is the center of most of the religions.
Only three religions are free of God.
One is Gautam Buddha's,
another is Mahavira's,
and the third is Lao Tzu's.
When for the first time Christian missionaries came in contact
with Buddhist scriptures they could not
even conceive of the idea that a religion can be without a god.
What kind of religion will there be if there is no God?
How are you going to pray? To whom?
Who is going to send his prophets and his only begotten son?
Who is going to send saviors for you?
Who is going to judge
whether you are
to be sent to hell or heaven?
God removed,
hell and heaven are also removed.
God removed,
punishment and reward are also removed.
God removed,
the very idea of judgment is removed.
Then there is no sin,
and no virtue.
Who will decide it?
And they were even more surprised
that Gautam Buddha is
known by his disciples --
and now even by those who are not disciples --
as Bhagwan Gautam Buddha.
Now 'Bhagwan' means God.
This was very puzzling.
Gautam Buddha does not believe in any God.
How did he even allow his disciples
to address him as Bhagwan?
The same is the situation with Jainism.
They are even more strict
about the absence of God.
Buddha simply ignores the whole subject.
It is not worth any consideration.
Jainism does not leave it,
because there is a danger
of the whole thing cropping up again,
once Mahavira is gone.
He wants it to be clearly stated that there is no God,
and there has never been any God,
and there is no creation
because there is no creator.
It is an evolving world.
What Charles Darwin found
two thousand years afterwards
was known to Mahavira, that it is not a creation,
it is an evolving world.
It has been forever here and will be forever here.
The whole concept of creation and a creator
is just idiotic.
This is a preview of a longer OSHO Talk which is now available for translation
with the OSHO Talks Video Translation Project at www.oshotalks.info
The full video will become available after subtitling and translation is completed.
Join the project and sign up for this talk.
A joined venture of dotSUB and OSHO International Foundation
Copyright© OSHO International Foundation, Switzerland - OSHO is a registered trademark of OSHO International Foundation