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Why is the mature human being of this century unable to understand deeper teachings?

Only those who meditate and remain unburdened by the past can meet truth fresh, while the rest, trapped in their ideologies, remain unconscious to its essence.

— Osho
According to Osho, it's not that the truly mature of this century can't understand; they can. The difficulty is that most people living today are psychologically from the past—skulls stuffed with scriptures, ideologies, and opiate consolations. Only meditators, new each moment and unburdened by hoarded past, are contemporary enough to meet truth fresh, like morning dew; the rest remain unconscious, so my words don't register.

Most people today still think like the distant past, so they can’t hear fresh truth; only a quiet, meditative mind can.

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