Only the ego can be touched

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Only the ego can be touched. It is very touchy. If somebody just looks at you in

a certain way, it is touched. He has not done anything. If somebody smiles a

little, it is touched; if somebody just turns his head and does not look at you,

it is touched. It is

very touchy. It is like a wound, always open, green. You touch it and the pain

arises. A single word, a single gesture -- the other may not even be aware of

what he has done to you, but he has touched it.

 

And you always think the other is responsible, that he has wounded you. No, you

carry your wound. With the ego your whole being is a wound. And you carry it

around. Nobody is interested in hurting you, nobody is positively waiting to

hurt you; everybody is engaged

in safeguarding his own wound. Who has got the energy? But still it happens,

because you are so ready to be wounded, so ready, just waiting on the brink for

anything.

 

You cannot touch a man of Tao. Why? -- because there is no one to be touched.

There is no wound. He is healthy, healed, whole. This word 'whole' is beautiful.

The word 'heal' comes from 'whole', and the word 'holy' also comes from 'whole'.

He is whole, healed, holy.

 

Be aware of your wound. Don't help it to grow, let it be healed; and it will be

healed only when you move to the roots. The less the head, the more the wound

will heal -- with no head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a

total being, and accept

things.

 

Just for twenty-four hours, try it -- total acceptance, whatsoever happens.

Someone insults you, accept it, don't react, and see what happens. Suddenly you

will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before. Somebody

insults you: you feel weak, you feel disturbed, you start thinking of how to get

your revenge. That man has hooked you, and now you will move round and round.

For days, nights, months, even years, you will not be able to sleep, you will

have bad dreams. People can waste their whole life over a small thing, just

because someone insulted them.

 

Just look back into your past and you will remember a few things. You were a

small child and the teacher in the class called you an idiot, and you still

remember it and you feel resentment. Your father said something. Your parents

have forgotten, and even if

you remind them, they will not be able to remember it. Your mother looked at you

in a certain way and since then the wound has been there. And it is still open,

fresh; if anybody touches it, you will explode.

 

Don't help this wound to grow. Don't make this wound your soul. Go to the roots,

be with the whole. For twenty-four hours, just twenty-four hours, try not to

react, not to reject, whatsoever happens.

 

If someone pushes you and you fall to the ground -- fall! Then get up and go

home. Don't do anything about it. If somebody hits you, bow down your head,

accept it with gratitude. Go home, don't do anything, just for twenty-four

hours. And you will know a new upsurge

of energy that you have never known before, a new vitality arising from the

roots. And once you know it, once you have tasted it, your life will be

different. Then you will laugh at all the foolish things you have been doing, at

all the resentments, reactions,

revenges, with which you have been destroying yourself.

 

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You

are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

 

Regards

Kumar

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C. P. KUMAR

Scientist 'E1'

National Institute of Hydrology

Jal Vigyan Bhawan

Roorkee - 247667 (Uttarakhand)

INDIA

 

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Just to let you know - this article's origin is Osho's site - www.osho.com !

 

" C. P. Kumar " <cpkumar wrote: Dear Brother/Sister,

 

I got this article from another group and just wanted

to share with you.

 

Only the ego can be touched. [....]