Total acceptance

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By Osho

 

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.