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Osho on Why do you not practice the Socratic method of dialogue?

Why do you not practice the Socratic method of dialogue?

Enlightenment is a wordless knowing; between knowers, silence suffices, for true vision cannot be transmitted through debate.

— Osho
According to Osho, Socratic dialogue suits “the blind”—those without direct experience—because it relies on logic and debate. Enlightenment is a wordless knowing; between knowers, silence suffices, and with the unseeing, dialectic cannot transmit vision. Hence he does not use it: he either sits in silence or answers spontaneously when asked, prioritizing experiential realization over argument.

Because truth can’t be argued into you but must be seen, Osho chooses silence or spontaneous replies instead of step-by-step debates.