Sensitive and sentimental by swami sukhabodhananda

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Sensitive and sentimental by swami
sukhabodhananda
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It was a rainy day, people rushed into the bus.
An old lady also managed to enter into the bus.
Throughout the journey, she cursed people for
pushing her while entering the bus. She loudly
grumbled that people dont have manners. She was
screaming that people have no respect for the
old. She went on giving reasons and cursed people
around. At the end of the journey, she was
getting down, still grumbling. The bus driver
told her, Madam you have left something behind.
What is it She screamed? A bad impression,
said the bus driver.
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Why do we leave poor impressions around? Is it
that one is not sensitive? If one looks into this
deeply one will find, most of us are not
sensitive to life and are sentimental to life.
There is a distinction between sensitive and
sentimental. Sentimental is your reaction to
life, in other words your position to what you
want or dont want. Your position to what you
like or dislike is more valuable than what is.
Whereas sensitive is ones ability to experience
what is. 
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Your position is not so important, but your
ability to experience what is. The quality of
life will drastically change when one is
sensitive. You see a flower, be sensitive to
experience what is, then you will be highly
absorbed to see what is rather than take a
position that I want this in such and such a way.
Life becomes exceedingly relaxing if one is
sensitive. And in that space, it is immensely
fulfilling. In our positionality is our
struggle. For we want our position to win, and
hence in conflict with the other.
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But how do we apply this in our daily life? Life
is the greatest victory. The sheer fact we are
born in spite of so many factors is a victory.
The mere fact we are living, in spite of so many
factors, is a victory. Refusing to see our
victory is part of not being sensitive. Validate
that, be grateful to that, rejoice that and from
that learn to win.
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n winning, what is needed is not our position but
our commitment. Please see this distinction? We
have lost this power to see. Instead, we are more
interested in forming concepts. Concepts are a
verbal framework, but seeing is an actuality. In
actually seeing is insight born. When I say do
not have a position, what I mean is your
stuck-ness to a point of view. Dont limit
yourself to a point of view. Understand that
commitment is a ground of being where creativity
emerges.
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In a creative process, there is no stuck-ness
but a wellspring of powerful action. When you say
I want this, and that becomes your position, then
when better options come forth, you refuse it
because you have invested so much on your
position and anything other than that is you have
lost. But commitment is decidedly different. Look
deeply into this. The power to look, the power to
observe, and the power to investigate give
insight. What is needed is insight rather than a
concept.