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  • OSHO

  • OSHO International Foundation presents

  • 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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