According to Osho, if you haven’t learned the first lesson of sannyas—open, non-grasping receptivity—the whole teaching passes over your head. Approaching the unknown with fists of logic and memory, you try to hold it and only lose it; nothing crystallizes within. The talks vanish into a void, and the door to real experience remains closed.
If you don’t stay open, the teachings slip past you like air you try to catch with a closed fist.