Sky of Peace

A well-devoted student of meditation asked: "why his mind is often disturbed by the clouds?". There are clouds of doubt, fear, anger, revenge. And the harder he tried to run away from the clouds, the more often the clouds disturb his daily life.

Rose Without Thorns

Every spiritual friend who often encounter the souls in danger will understand, there is always inner fights there. Good fight against bad, false against right, dirty against holy. A teenager who joined meditation class even screaming in the midst of silent meditation. As soon as we finished the silent meditation, this teenager shared his experience that he saw demon within himself.

To be honest, all inner battles are made by the untrained mind. To put it more precisely, it is the fruit of very old conditioning. Family education, the environment, the school are only parts of the conditioning. In a simple language, those conditioning make people keep hoping to have rose without thorns. Expecting there's happiness without sadness, there's praise without blame.

And meditation keep teaching to smile at any blessing of this moment. Keep smiling to both thorn and rose within. To keep smiling to both sorrow and joy. As a result, the grip of conditioning loosening from day to day. Until one day enlightenment makes  mind totally free from all conditioning.

Rose of Perfection

In deep meditation it is often revealed, we are all the unique combination between thorn and rose. Some people have more thorn, some others have more rose. And meditation is a beautiful smile of understanding to both thorn and rose.

That's why many teachers of meditation agree, meditation change you by accepting you as you are. It sounds strange to the ears of the ordinary, but once soul is deeply touched by deep meditation they will fully understand this.

At this stage of understanding, rose is a representation of perfection. There is no rose without thorn. In the same way, there is no soul without flaw. And perfection is not the absence of flaw, perfection is a beautiful smile to all flaw.

Beautiful Inner Sunrise

Anyone who diligently train themselves like this do not need to be sad when they are visited by the clouds of life. All the sky ever visited by the clouds, in the same way all souls have their own flaws.

That's the reason why every wounded souls are always asked to accept themselves as they are. Self-acceptance would be far easier if one understands the perfection of rose. In the language of meditation, you are not imperfect rose because of thorns, you are rose which is well-protected by the thorns.

Inspired by this, it is easier for someone to have beautiful inner sunrise. The sign is simple, everything have their own time, everything have their own place. In the rainy seasons sky will be full of clouds. In the dry season sky will contain fewer clouds. Beautifully smile to both types of sky that is sky of peace.

Author: Gede Prama 
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