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you are humble you are not; knowing it is not possible. How can you know your humbleness? -- because all knowing is part of the ego: 'I am this, I am that.' What you claim is not the point. Any claim comes from the ego, all claims come from the ego.
Remain spontaneous, natural. And this is something that is coming into your being, it is your natural flow. Go with it, do it. It will make you humble, mm? Good!
[A sannyasin, who ran the healing group, said something deep from his belly is coming up which frightens him. He is picking up people's symptoms and, when he is relating to people, everything that is going on. Osho checks his energy.]
You are becoming more and more available to people's energy. It is a good indication that you are becoming open. In the beginning when one becomes open, first sympathy happens: one feels affected by others' emotions, others' energies.
Then, when it goes really deep -- which it wants to; that's why you were feeling something deep in the stomach, something wants to happen -- then sympathy turns into empathy. Then you don't only feel what is happening to the other, you actually start feeling that it is happening to you. Sometimes illnesses can be transferred. Somebody has a headache and you become so empathic that you have the headache; you start having an inner experience of it. And it is possible too that the other's headache may disappear, you can absorb it. We are connected with each other so this is possible.
First there is sympathy -- one feels for the other but one doesn't feel what is actually happening, mm? One can feel sorry: somebody has some illness, suffering. One can feel sorry but one is not identified with it.
Your energy wants to be identified and you are preventing it; hence you are afraid. You are afraid of it becoming too much. If you become loaded with everybody's emotion and feeling and illness, then where will you be? So you are holding it down and it wants to assert itself.
It is a good phenomenon to allow. For a few days you will be in trouble but soon it will settle. Both sympathy and empathy will disappear; when you lose the idea that you are separate, then
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