According to Osho, silence is difficult because the ego lives on noise—the mind’s repetitive past, memories, and self-narratives. True silence dissolves the ego; it is not ‘someone being silent’ but the absence of the someone (fana, nirvana). We fear this psychological death, so we cling to mental chatter and nostalgia. Dropping the past allows being without ‘I,’ a stillness beyond experience.
It’s hard to be quiet because the noisy stories in our head keep our “me” alive, and real quiet would make that “me” fade.