All soul travelers who are sensitive enough, understand
that all people who make trouble and problems in public (over long periods of
time), their souls are deeply wounded. Their anger is the way their soul wounds
cry and are asking for help.
With this perspective in mind, we do not need to spread the
new seeds of violence in society, we can allow the energy of compassion to
bloom within. And above all, the moments when you are harmed are the golden
opportunities to connect with the beautiful light within.
On the path of deep meditation in particular, whenever
people hurt you, or you are visited by a bad memory from the past, quickly
radiate the smiling light of mindfulness to the two objects of meditation.
Firstly, emit the smiling light of mindfulness to the person who harmed you.
After that, learn to emit the smiling light of mindfulness to the soul wound within. At the same time,
consider that everything simply appears and disappears, like clouds in the sky.
Nothing is permanent. It is just karma that flows from one moment to the next.
Identifying yourself like the clouds, like sadness and unhappiness, that is the
seed of suffering. Keep witnessing the coming and the going of clouds, that's
the seed of peace.
For beginners, meditation practice like this is very hard
and challenging. Mainly because the energy of anger is much greater than the
energy of mindfulness. As soon as someone is harmed, usually the energy of
anger will take over everything, followed by rude words and other malicious
actions.
But there is no other option, slowly but surely you can
train yourself to enhance the energy of mindfulness inside. For beginners, it
is suggested to do the meditation training in places which are far away from
temptation. But for the luminous souls, the temptation is not there to shut off
the inner light. On the contrary, the temptations make the light radiate even
brighter.
That's why Mother Teresa chose the location of her service
to be in the very poor and sad region of Calcutta India. That is also the
reason why the prison did not make Nelson Mandela suffer. Instead the prison
made Mandela's soul shine even brighter.
In our time, the meditation teacher who practices
mindfulness at a very deep level is HH Thich Nhat Hanh. As already noted in
history, the venerable Thich Nhat Hanh grew up in the middle of Vietnam war
which was very scary. In our day, the spiritual master whose compassion is very
touching is HH the Dalai Lama. And the venerable Dalai Lama lost his country at
the age of 15 years old.
In the middle of spiritual records like this, it is easy to
understand that a lot of inner seekers heard a message like this: "soul
wound is the window from where the light shines in". In other words, your
soul wound is not punishment. It is a golden opportunity to meet the beautiful
light within.
And this may happen if a seeker does not run away from
temptation, otherwise using temptation as an opportunity to brighten the
smiling light of mindfulness within. The condition is similar to the flower
which is being burned by the sun. As long as a seeker is sincere and honest,
the harming enemies will make the inner soul bloom like beautiful flower.
Author: Gede Prama.
Photo Courtesy: Twitter @breakofdawn888
Proofread by: Kirsty Spence
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