Song of Harmony

In certain forest once lived a wise old man who is highly respected. He was so honored, that's why all the villagers asked for his advice. However, one day there was a girl in the village who is pregnant without any husband, and accusing that the wise old man is the one who is responsible for her pregnancy.

Suddenly all villagers carry this pregnant girl to the forest, complete all the painful insults and curses. One of the village leader even shouting toward the wise old man like this: "Hi you the hypocrite old man, now take the responsibility of your disgusting deeds". Without much talk, the white-haired man just says: "ok". After that the villagers left the pregnant girl live with this amazing wise man.

Many years of time pass in the forest without praise and blame. This girl was treated well. His son grows up healthily without many troubles. One day this young mother felt a deep sense of guilt after seeing the perfect treatment of this wise man. After crying all the night, the young mother returned back to the village, telling what actually happened, that the man who made her pregnant was a difficult and tough villager who had fled to the city.

As a result, the villagers went back to the forest asked for the apology. Some people kiss his feet, some others put his hand above their head, some even cried. And all of them were answered with the same answer: "ok".

This is a beautiful flower of meditation. A person can smile equally both to the blame and the praise. Quoting the opinion of a Zen master: "in the end, there is no difference between the sound of scolding neighbor and the sound of singing birds".  Everything is the dancing of the same perfection. Similar to water in nature, the dry season does not reduce the amount of water in nature, the rainy season does not increase it.

One who deeply meditates will understand, meditation does not stop the karma. Karma is similar to sunrise and sunset, they keep flowing. However, when one is deeply touched by meditation, deeply practice the activity of witnessing, they are no longer gripped by the dark clouds sadness, they are no longer attach to the white clouds of happiness, and then they return back as the witnessed light.

Anyone who returns back as the witnessing light finally can find life as a song of harmony. The battle between the good and the bad, the dirty and the sacred, the right and the wrong are totally stop. Some friends who have deep soul wound, few even nearly crazy open the secret, at the peak of soul wound the battle between bad-good was very frightening and burning within.

And that inner battle is a battle between ourselves that we accept with other part of ourselves that we reject. The holy is accepted, the dirty is rejected. Cleverness is accepted, ignorance is rejected. Consequently, soul is burning inside. That's why, all friends who diligently practice meditation for days, they are equipped with the same message: "accept, flow, smile".

At the peak of accepting, flowing, smiling, there's no other sound except the song of harmony. Anyone who has heard the song of harmony will understand, whatever may happen in life, but our innermost core remains the same which is the eternal joy (Anandam).

Author: Gede Prama.
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