Increasing Sensitivity

 

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Increasing Sensitivity

We all love sensational matter, that is what our media thrives on and truth falls a prey to this sensationalism! We live for sensations; we hanker for sensations. We go on seeking newer and newer sensations; our whole life is an effort to obtain new sensations. But what happens? The more we seek sensations, the less sensitive we become. Sensitivity is lost.

It looks paradoxical. In sensations, sensitivity is lost. Then we seek more sensations and the ‘more’ kills our sensitivity further. Then we ask for even more, and finally a moment comes when all our senses have become dull and dead. Humans have never before been so dull and dead as they are today. They were always more alive before, because there were not so many possibilities to fulfill so many sensations.

But now science, progress, civilization, education, have created so many opportunities to move further and further into the world of sensation. Ultimately, we turn into a dead person; our sensitivity is lost. Taste more foods – stronger tastes, stronger foods – and our taste will be lost. If we move around the world and go on seeing more and more beautiful things, we will become blind; the sensitivity of our eyes will be lost.

We change our love object every day – our girlfriend or boyfriend, our wife or husband. If we change them every day, our sensitivity to love will die. We are moving in a dangerous terrain. We will never move in depth; we will only be moving on the surface, the periphery. The more things we experience, the less our capacity to experience becomes. And then in the end, when everything around us has gone dead, we ask for the divine, we ask for bliss, we ask for truth. A dead person cannot experience the divine.

To experience the divine, we need total sensitivity; we need aliveness. Remember, only the similar can bring out the similar. If we want the divine – ’the divine’ means the most alive, the ever-alive, ever-young, ever-green – if we want to meet the divine, we will have to be more alive.

How to do it? Kill all desire for sensation. Don’t seek sensation; seek sensitivity, become more sensitive. The two are different. If we ask for sensations, we will ask for things; we will accumulate things. But if we ask for sensitivity, the whole work has to be done on our senses, not on things. We are not to accumulate things. We have to deepen our feelings, our heart, eyes, ears, nose.

Every sense should be deepened in such a way that it becomes capable of feeling the subtle. We cannot even feel the gross, and we must become capable of feeling the subtle. The world appears to be gross only because we cannot feel the subtle. The invisible is hidden in the visible. Look at these trees. We look at the gross: the body of the tree. We never look, we never feel, the life within. The growth! The tree itself is not growing: the tree is just a body. Something else – the invisible – is growing in it. And because of it, the tree grows. The inner is growing and, because of it, the outer is growing. But we look only at the tree, so only the outer is seen. Look around. Look into the friend’s eyes. We only look at the eyes, not at the one who sees through them. Touch your friend’s body. We touch only the gross; we never feel the subtle within.

The person who finds the divine is the one whose senses are totally alive to their maximum capacity. Then it is not only that we can see the divine. We can taste the divine, we can smell the divine. The divine can enter in us through any of the senses. Only when the divine enters us from all the senses does the ultimate realisation happen. If we only see the divine, it is just a partial realisation. Then we are not really enlightened. We are only partially enlightened if we cannot touch the divine, if we cannot taste it.

God is not a question of argument, of logic, of reasoning. God is really a question of sensitivity. If we don’t feel him, become more sensitive. Become more sensitive! If we are sensitive, he is there. He has always been there, but we are not sensitive. Things make us dull; sensations make us dull. Kill out desire for sensation.