People who are angry at us often reflect something about ourselves that we hide inside. With this anger fit we in fact have a shot at getting it out of our system if only we are willing to consider our so-called opponent as a mirror of the turmoil inside of us.
Our friends love and accept us. They will rarely give is advice or remind us of our shortcomings, but when they do, we better listen. It is hard to embrace this philosophy. How much easier it would be to just decide that the others are just temporarily deluded. Yet, once you discover that with every encounter someone in fact holds up a mirror for you, you in fact get a priceless chance to break our of your old patterns. It is like a caterpillar transforming into a beautiful butterfly.
We spiritual folks need to remind ourselves that we are on a demolition course to advance. We aim to break down our artificial self-image, which is an inconvenient and tiresome job. In fact, we never could do it on our own. Let our brother take off our mask - it hurts us a little but our beautiful face will thank us for it.
Be grateful for every interaction today. Every encounter is meaningful independent of whether the feedback is positive or negative. Brother, thank you for holding a mirror up for me!
By Christian and Su Zhen
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment