The Dancing of Compassion

"Why is it such difficult to forgive others and accept life as it is?", This is the question many spiritual friends. To be honest, the difficulty of forgiving others and to accept life as it is in daily life  is not caused by the huge mistakes of others, but because of one's ego.

Once the ego getting smaller, or the ego disappear totally, by then forgiving others and accepting life is much easier. The question then, what is the origin of ego? Quoting from The Book of Mirdad: "when the serpent tempted Eve to eat the fruit of pain and pleasure, in fact that is the deepest root of duality".

In other words, the seed of ego is duality. There are many people who believe that they are right, then they attack the others who are considered to be wrong. There are abundant of people who think that they are kind, then they don't want to be the friend of those who are considered to be unkind.

The Most Beautiful Smile

"Is there any connection between being vegetarian and the quality of meditation?", that's the question of many meditation students. Being vegetarian is certainly good. Mainly because it will reduce the guilty feeling  as a result of harming. However, the one who truely need of being vegetarian is the mind (by which read: non-judgmental mind).

There are too many friends whose mouth are vegetarian, but their mind are not vegetarian. As a result, their meditation journey are full of obstacles. This is the experience of two students on the path of zen whose meditation journey were very difficult. 

One day these two disciples saw the moving flag. The first disciple concluded that the thing that moved was the flag. The second one thought that the moving thing was the wind. Consequently, they were very noisy arguing each others.

Birds of Peace

A mother whose husband died years before shared a beautiful story in meditation class. Each time she entered the room during the day, there were always birds came and knocking the window. Surprised by the repeating experiences, this mother then asked: "What is the message behind this?". With a smile the inner Guru answered: "Birds are angels of joy which are here to remind that life is a song of joy".

The Frozen Self

Sadly, there are very few people who understand life as a song of joy. One of the reason, there are too many people who live within a rigid and frozen self. Look deeply within when you are harmed. There is energy which reject the harming. There's certain power within which want to fight back. This is called the frozen self. 

A Couple of Soul Flower

One day an atheist friend in the West joined a meditation class. He joined the meditation class simply because he wanted to make his girlfriend happy. Surprisingly, he grew much faster than all of his friends who are followers of religion. This could happen because he entered the gate of meditation without the framework of duality and without the hope of attaining anything.

This story is not a recommendation to be an atheist. Once again it is not. But rather a suggestion to enter the gate of meditation without any frame work such as bad-good, wrong-right. It is also an invitation to enter the garden of meditation without any expectations at all. As a result, it is far easier to be in one with this moment.