According to Osho, presence feels difficult because lifelong conditioning trains you to become 'somebody'—ambition, ideals, and comparison create tension and keep you closed. When striving drops and you accept what is, openness flowers. Presence is not an achiever’s state but your own silent being—pure awareness without desire or effort. Meditation is simply relaxing into this already-here presence.
It’s hard to be here because we keep trying to be someone else; the one who is truly present is the quiet you that just notices.