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WHY IS HUGGING SUCH AN INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE THERAPEUTIC TOOL?

It is, and it is only a gesture. If it is true – not only a gesture but your heart is also in it – it can be a
magical tool, it can be a miracle.
IT CAN TRANSFORM THE WHOLE SITUATION INSTANTLY.
Few things have to be understood about it.
One is the idea that the child dies and the man becomes adolescent, then the adolescent dies and the man becomes young, then the young man dies andhe becomes middle-aged, and so on, so forth, IS WRONG.
The child never dies – nothing ever dies.
The child is there, always is there, wrapped by other experiences – wrapped by adolescence, then by youth, then by middle age, then by old age – but the child is always there.
You are just like an onion, layers upon layers, but if you peel the onion soon you will find fresher layers inside. Go on deeper and you find more and more, fresher layers. The same is true about man: if you go deep into him you will always find the innocent child – and to contact that innocent child is therapeutic.
Hugging gives you an immediate contact with the child. If you hug somebody with warmth, love, if it is not just an impotent gesture, if it is meaningful, significant, true, if your heart is flowing through it, immediately you come in contact with the child, with the innocent child. And the innocent childeven for a single moment surfacing makes a tremendous difference because the innocence of the child is always healthy and whole; it is uncorrupted. You have reached to the innermost core of the person where no corruption has ever entered, you have reached to the virgin core, and just making the virgin core throb again with life is enough. You have started, triggered a process of healing. When you love a person just verbal expressions are not enough, words are not enough; something more substantial is needed; words are only abstract. You have to do something!
HOLD THE HAND, HUG THE PERSON, KISS THE PERSON, EMBRACE THE PERSON.
It is going to help you both: if you can melt in the hug you both will become again younger, fresher, livelier.
AND THATS THE WHOLE PROCESS OF HEALING.

~ OSHO – CHAPTER 4. SOUL-LIVING BY LOVING – THE WILD GEESE AND THE WATER

LISTEN TO ASHTAVAKRA. :
”IF YOU CAN SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM THE PHYSICAL BODY, AND REST IN CONSCIOUSNESS, THEN THIS VERY MOMENT YOU WILL BE HAPPY, AT PEACE, AND FREE OF BONDAGE.”
Right here, right now, this very moment. ”If you can separate yourself from the physical body, and
rest in consciousness.” If you begin to see the fact, ”I am not the body, I am not the doer and enjoyer: I am that one hidden within me who sees all….
When childhood came it saw childhood, when youth came it saw youth, when old age came it saw old age. Childhood did not stay, so I cannot be childhood. It came and passed, still I am. Youth did not stay, so I cannot be youth. It came and passed, still I am. Old age came, and it is also going, so I cannot be old age.
HOW CAN I BE THAT WHICH COMES AND GOES? I AM ALWAYS.
The one to whom childhood comes, to whom youth comes, to whom old age comes… to whom thousands of things have come and gone. I am that one eternal ,everlasting.”
Like railway stations they go on changing: childhood, youth, old age, birth.
The traveller keeps moving. You never think you have become one with train stations. Coming to Poona station you donot think you are Poona. When you reach Manmad you don’t think you are Manmad.
You know thatPoona has come and gone, Manmad has come and gone. You are a traveller. You are the observer that saw Poona: Poona came; who saw Manmad: Manmad came. You are the one who sees.
THE FIRST THING, SEPARATE WHAT IS HAPPENING FROM THE OBSERVER.
”… separate yourself from the physical body, and rest in consciousness…” There is nothing else
worth doing.
JUST AS Lao Tzu’s KEY SUTRA IS SURRENDER, ASHTAVAKRA’S KEY SUTRA IS REST, RELAXATION.
There is nothing to do.

~ OSHO – CHAPTER #1 THE PUREST EXPRESSION OF TRUTH #THE MAHAGEETA vol 1

BUDDHA SAYS: STOP IN THE MIDDLE
There is no need to be indulgent, there is no need to renounce either. Just be in the middle, exactly in the middle.
He has a great point there: if you remain exactly in the middle, that is the point from where transcendence happens.
It is like the pendulum of a clock. It goes from the right to the left, from the left to the right.
Try to understand the pendulum and its process because it is very similar to the process of your mind.
When the pendulum is going towards the right, visibly it is going towards the right, but invisibly it is gaining momentum to go to the left.
When it is going to the left it is gaining momentum to go to the right.
When you are INDULGING you are gaining momentum for renouncing the world, and
when you are RENOUNCING you will gain momentum to indulge again.
And this can go on for lives together.
But hold the pendulum in the middle and the clock stops.
THAT’S WHAT BUDDHA SAYS: HOLD THE PENDULUM IN THE MIDDLE AND THE MIND STOPS.
The mind is the clock because the mind is time, the mind is desire.
It brings past and future -IT IS TIME. Hold it in the middle.
Don’t live in the past and don’t live in the future.
BE IN THE PRESENT, THAT IS THE MIDDLE.
Don’t be indulgent and don’t be a renunciate; be in the middle.
Fulfill the necessities of life.
Don’t be obsessed by possessing things and don’t be obsessed by renouncing them.
Both are obsessions and both are pathological states.
AVOID BOTH, BE IN THE MIDDLE. IN THE MIDDLE IS BALANCE.

~ OSHO – The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 9