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Source: 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram # 13'

Osho: Sensitivity Can Be Shared in a Thousand and One Ways

Sensitivity can be shared

in a thousand and one ways.

The most fundamental is

a lovingness --

not a love relationship,

but just pure lovingness

without any conditions.

Not asking anything in return:

pouring your heart --

because it is overflowing with sensitivity --

onto people,

even on strangers.

Now scientists say,

you can shake hands with a tree

and if you are

friendly

you will feel

a tremendous sensitivity

in the tree itself.

There are old stories --

unbelievable,

they cannot be factual, but

one never knows...

maybe they are factual.

It is said that whenever Gautam Buddha passed by,

trees which had been

without leaves

suddenly grew leaves

to give him shade.

Whenever he sat under a tree,

suddenly

thousands of flowers blossomed

and started falling over him.

It may be simply symbolic,

but there is a possibility of its being real too.

And when I say that,

modern scientific research about trees

is in my support.

It was the first Indian Nobel Prize winner,

Jagdish Chandra Bose,

who proved

to the scientific world that trees are not dead.

He was given a Nobel Prize for it,

but since Jagdish Chandra Bose

much has happened.

He would have been tremendously happy

if he could come and see

what scientists

have managed.

Now they have

something like

a cardiograph

attached to the tree.

A man comes,

a friend,

to the tree

with love in his heart

and the tree starts

dancing --

even without any wind --

and the cardiogram

becomes

very symmetrical.

The graph on the paper

becomes almost

a harmonious

beauty.

And when another man

comes with an axe --

with the idea to cut the tree --

even though he has not come close

the graph of the cardiogram

goes berserk.

It loses all symmetry, all harmony.

It simply goes insane:

something is going to harm him.

It is strange because he has not been harmed;

it is just an idea in the woodcutter's mind.

The tree is

even

so sensitive

that it catches your ideas.

And then the same man, with the axe

but not desiring to cut the tree,

comes

and the graph remains the same.

There is no fear,

no nervousness in the tree.

And another thing they became aware of was,

that if one tree is trembling with fear --

they had not thought about it,

one scientist just put

a few cardiographs on other trees

surrounding the tree --

when the tree started trembling with fear

the other trees

also participated.

They must have been old friends

growing in the same grove.

They must have shared

their love with each other,

they must have been friendly.

They also react immediately.

The whole existence is full of sensitivity --

and man is the highest product

of this existence.

Naturally

your heart,

your being,

is ready to overflow.

You have been hiding it,

repressing it,

because your parents and your teachers

have told you

to be hard,

to be strong --

because it is a world

full of struggle;

if you cannot fight and compete

you will be nobody.

So only a few people like poets,

painters,

musicians,

sculptors --

who are no more in the competitive world,

who are not hoping to accumulate

billions of dollars --

they are the only people

who have

some trace

of sensitivity left.

But a meditator

is on the way to being a mystic.

He will become more and more sensitive.

And the more you share your sensitivity,

your love,

your friendliness,

your compassion,

the closer you will come

to the goal of being a mystic.

"My poor husband,"

said Mrs Ginsberg

to her psychoanalyst,

dragging her husband behind her.

"He is convinced

he is a parking meter."

The analyst looked at the silent,

morbid fellow and asked,

"Why doesn't he say something for himself?

Can't he talk?"

"How can he,"

said Mrs Ginsberg,

"With all those coins in his mouth?"

In my

vision

a sannyasin is one

who is making every effort to get rid of

the insanity

that he has been conditioned for.

Sensitivity

will help immensely

to make you sane,

sensible --

and if

you go on

moving in the right direction,

it will become your meditation

and finally

your mystic experience of enlightenment.

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