In the world of news, there’s a very old phrase that’s known widely.
If a dog bites a person, it is not a news. If a person bites a dog,
that’s news. Every friend who deeply studies the human soul understands,
if that’s the reference of news over the years, one day many people
will actually bite the dog.A friend who is the region head was once asked, why the news about his region was such bad? With a sad expression in his face, he calmly said: “Local government did a lot of good things, but it did not appear in the news. However, when there is only one thing which is not in line with the taste of journalist, then it will appear again and again in the news”.
Whether you like it or not this is our public discourse. It is really hard to find a person in this age who can see flower in other’s hearts. Even when the heart is filled by millions of flowers and only one waste, people will only talk about the waste. To be frank, when we talk about someone’s faults, it does not reflect the other’s quality, it is the mirror of our own quality.
For that reason, on the path of meditation it is often suggested, whenever you get up from sitting meditation keep learning to see flowers of love, kindness, compassion in the other’s eyes. Anyone who keep seeing flowers in the other’s eyes, as a matter of time people will smell beautiful fragrance in your heart.
Flowers in The Heart
The tendency of people to see ourselves negatively, partly because we fail to see the beautiful sides (by which read: flower) within us. In some parts of the world, there are increasing number of people who hate their body because of obesity and other factors. In meditation classes there are many seekers who are angry to their jumping mind. As widely known among spiritual healers, there’s always self denial within each pain and illness. The harder a person denies him/herself the more painful the suffering.
Inspired by this, in meditation classes this message is repeated again and again: “accept, flow, and smile”. Always remember in the heart, everything (good-bad, right-wrong) are the dancing of the same perfection. Any seekers who deeply practice this teaching will smile to read this message: “when you forgive yourself, you actually give a beautiful flower to your soul”.
In our age ever born a beautiful soul who was admired by the world which is Nelson Mandela. And the most touching message that flows through this former leader of South Africa is forgiveness. Forgiveness certainly does not change the past, but it loosens the dangerous grip of anger and revenge. Above all, forgiving makes someone plants the seeds of love everywhere. As the spiritual heritage of the awakened: “if you plant the seeds of love every day, the one who bloom is you”.
Flowers Everywhere
One of the important sign of seekers whose heart bloom already, he/she can see flowers everywhere. In a simple but profound language: “there’s flower in the waste, there’s waste in the flower”. On the path of meditation, this is called insight. At the level of insight, perfection is not the absence of flaw. Perfection is the ability to smile to all flaws.
Every heart who has arrived here will understand, in each cycle of time there are imperfections. Even when the prophets were born, imperfections were presence. However, imperfection is not the enemy of perfection, it is like darkness that makes light shines even brighter.
That is the reason why beautiful souls are not interested in criticizing others. Especially because every critical attitude on others will only weaken ourselves. On the contrary, beautiful souls who come to this stage will be very hungry to love and serve. Borrowing from Ram Dass: “love serve remember”. In a more poetic language: “kindness is the way of soul to share the inner fragrance”. As a result, you do not need to be a person who bites a dog.
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