I remember somewhere a certain psychotherapist wrote about a female patient. The man was telling the woman to feel something, but the psychotherapist felt that she didn’t feel what she was doing, that she thought she was feeling it. This is something different. So the therapist put her hand on the woman’s hand, pressed it, and told the woman to close her eyes and describe how she felt. “I feel your hand,” the woman said immediately.
But the therapist said: “No, it’s not what you’re feeling. It’s just what you think, what you infer. I put my hand on your hand; You say you feel my hand But you don’t feel. This is inference. What are you feeling?”
“I feel your fingers,” the woman said.
Again the therapist says, “No!” said. “This is not the feeling. Infer nothing. Close your eyes and go where my hand is; Then tell me how you feel.”
Then the woman said: “Oh! I was missing everything. I feel pressure and warmth.”
The hand is not a hand you feel when it touches you. Pressure and warmth are felt. Hand is just an inference, intelligence, not feeling. Warmth and pressure, that’s the feeling. Now she felt it. We have completely lost the feeling.
You can do anything. If there is a small child in the home, follow the child for one hour each day. It will be better and more satisfying than following Buddha. Let the child move on all fours and you move on all fours. Follow the child’s crawl, for the first time you will feel a new life energy coming into you. You will be a child once again. Look at the child and follow him. He will go to every corner; It will touch everything. He will not only touch, he will taste everything, he will smell everything. You follow him and do whatever he is doing.
Your defenses will be left behind, your armor will be left behind, and you will begin to look at the world as a child does: from the emotional dimension. When you feel it, you don’t think anymore, you can feel it, you enjoy the texture of the carpet on which you move like a child; pressure, temperature. Just by following an innocent child. One can learn a lot from children; sooner or later your true innocence will explode. You were once a child and you know what it means to be a child. You just forgot.
You can do many other things and it doesn’t take any special effort to do them. Feel your bed, your pillow as you fall asleep. their coldness. Return to him; play with the pillow.
Close your eyes and listen to the sound of the air conditioner or the sound of traffic, the clock, anything. Just listen. Don’t label, don’t say anything. Don’t use the mind. Just live in emotion. In the morning, when you first wake up, when you feel sleepy, don’t start thinking. For a few minutes, you can be a kid again. Innocent, fresh… Don’t start thinking. Don’t think about what to do, when to go to the office, which train to catch. Don’t start thinking. You’ll have enough time for all this nonsense. Wait. Just listen to the sounds for a few minutes. The song of a bird, the wind blowing through the trees, the crying of a child, the milkman coming, the pouring of milk. With everything that happens, feel it. Be sensitive to it, be open. Let it happen to you, then your sensitivity will grow.
While taking a shower, feel the water all over your body. Feel every drop of water that touches you. Feel its touch, its coldness, its warmth! Try this all day, whenever you can. There is opportunity everywhere. Everywhere!
As you breathe, feel the breath. Your movement inside, your going out… Feel it! Feel your own body. Which you never felt.
Osho – “The Book of Secrets”
