Why can't I understand you?
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"Not understanding is the first step toward true understanding; drop your borrowed ideas and listen with a loving, innocent heart."
According to Osho, not understanding is the first step and the first blow to the ego toward real understanding; the true obstacle is your accumulated, second-hand knowledge and conclusions. When you keep measuring against scriptures, you either confirm and learn nothing or react in anger. Understanding travels over love. Drop borrowed ideas, listen freshly, with a loving, innocent heart.
Your head is full of borrowed ideas that argue with what is said; admit you don’t know and listen with love, not comparison.
Why this matters practically
- Encourages humility and beginner’s mind, making you teachable.
- Stops reflexive comparison, so you can truly listen and be changed.
- Shifts focus from head to heart, turning information into lived insight.
- Stops reflexive comparison, so you can truly listen and be changed.
- Shifts focus from head to heart, turning information into lived insight.
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