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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. ”
