Bringers of Light

Weather uncertainty, endless conflicts, sadden corruption, suicide and divorce rate rise steadily, WHO (world health organization) even predicted that mental illness will be very worrying in the year of 2020, all of these are alarming darkness. Without the bringers of light, the future will be very touching.

Darkness As Friend

In the spiritual world especially, there are many lovers of goodness who are very hostile to the power of darkness. Cigarette factories, plastic factories, alcohol factories, soap factories, shampoo factories, paper mills, weapons producers, criminals, corrupted politicians and many others are put as enemies that should be destroyed. As a result, the beautiful intention of goodness does not make the heart beautiful. Instead, kind intention makes a person's heart be such dirty because of hatred and anger.

To this type of friends, the memory is often refreshed that to be good does not mean to be hostile to the power of darkness. Darkness might be hostile to goodness, but the natural nature of goodness is not hostile to anyone. It is like the goodness of a mother with a lot of children. Similar to encountering dangerous tigers and lions, fighting against them will certainly be ended by misery. However, when they are gently hugged and loved, then there is a chance that they will obey us.

Another thing, the word devil is derived from the word divine. Especially because devil is an evolving divine. In other word, there is seed of divine within the devil. It is similar to cat feces. It smells really bad. But when we put it under the flower tree, it will grow into beautiful flower. It is easier to illuminate the power of darkness by placing them as companions of growth, rather than placing them as the enemy that must be eradicated.

The Inner Light

As the electric light, light is the result of the ability to synthesize the positive and the negative. Light does not come from the anger of throwing the negative. For that reason, meditation does not kick the negative and does not grip the positive. Meditation is an art of being a compassionate witness. Sad-glad, tragedy-comedy, blamed-praised are all embraced by a gentle smile.

As a result, mind will experience a deep peace. Inner peace resembles to a quiet pond. From the quiet pond then grow beautiful lotus of insight. At this level, one will understand that life is similar to reading book. If the book is too distance (because of being kicked) then it can not be read, if the book is too close (because of being gripped) it can not be read. Witnessing makes someone maintain a proper distance to life then able to "read" it.

After spending long time to read life, then the inner light will appear. One of the main trait, a person is able to see, understand, experience that there is waste in flower, there is flower in waste. There is sadness in gladness, there is gladness in sadness. This is very similar to the electric light, in which positive and negative are synthesized.  Deep meditation practitioners who arrived here will only smile. Smile because he/she has directly experience that all is the dancing of the same perfection.

Sunrise of Compassion

As honey which is naturally sweet, the inner calmness will naturally give birth to the light of compassion. That's why Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Jalaluddin Rumi, HH Dalai Lama are full of love and compassion. They all start with perfect inner calmness. The inner calmness then provide space to the blooming lotus of compassion.

And as sunrise make the morning so bright and warm, this compassion also makes life so bright and warm. Borrowing the touching example of Nelson Mandela, life may take anything, but do not let life to take kind heart. Repeating the message of HH Dalai Lama, if you have to choose between religion and compassion please choose compassion.

The inner light of meditation that is coupled with the rising sun of compassion, then make a person become a bringer of light. You don't need to be as great as Nelson Mandela or HH Dalai Lama who received Nobel Prize for peace, it is enough to be a lantern in your environment. In the language of Mother Teresa, if you want to contribute to the world peace, go home love your family.