According to Osho, gentle, soft language pleases but fails to transform; it leaves the world’s ugliness intact and serves vested interests. Hence he adopts an outwardly aggressive tone—rooted in inner gentleness and compassion—to shock, disrupt complacency, and catalyze real change. True compassion sometimes strikes, like Jesus overturning moneylenders, because only forceful clarity can awaken and liberate.
He uses strong, wake-up words—like tough love—because soft talk pleases people but doesn’t stop harmful habits or injustice.