Why Is Communication So Difficult?

Particularly Between Lovers

By: Osho

Narrated by: Osho

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. 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.

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Communication issues are addressed by Osho with plenty of good humor and stories.

This Osho talk started out with a question about communication and Osho answered by talking about God. He brought up Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Taoism, Jainism and Buddhism. It was very interesting because he said that some of these religions have different ideas of God. Essentially the argument is that in Christianity when you speak of God they got an idea of their own Creator that made the world in six days and rested on the seventh. So one of the biggest hurdles in regards to communication is that words have different meaning to different people. He really drove this home later in the speech. Men are far more logical and women are far more intuitive. A man will arrive to a conclusion using logic whereas a woman will arrive at it with a hunch. The idea is to realize that most communication issues stem from an issue with interpretation. This speech was filled with stories and jokes and Osho did a good job uniting the points in his speech.