One day a little boy was digging sands on the beach using his small hands.
When he was asked what he was doing, with an innocence smile the little boy
replied: "I want to put all water of ocean into my small well".
The same thing happen to many people in this age. Life and God are as wide
as the ocean. But the human mind is similar to the small well. Sadly, the
advancement of education in particular make some people arrogantly believe that
they can understand everything by using mind alone. The result is predictable,
there are countless alienated souls everywhere. People feel uncomfortable
in their own bodies.
A friend who spent his life for decades as a consultant to various large
companies, as well as deeply understand the inner secrets of many corporate
organizations shared a story, there are many people whose minds are very strong
cause dangerous mistakes. They do not just make the organizations suffer, but
also make a nation suffer.
Some of those people
whose minds are too strong they even died at a young age. And they left many
wounded souls behind. As we can see everywhere, the too strong mind is like the
collection of stones. Consequently, they easily cause conflict here and there.
In the story of some professional organizations which are full of people with
very strong mind, every time they meet some of them even throwing the chairs.
Suicide rates and the divorce rate which rise everywhere, the increasing
number of people who have drug addiction, they are all have connection with
strong mind. One of the important feature of strong mind, they keep hoping that
the others should behave according to what they expect.
In meditation sessions some of them honestly open their secrets. Meditation
students who attempted to commit suicide many times, disciples who are infected
by dangerous diseases such as cancer and stroke, they are all characterized by
a very strong mind. Such kind of mind do not only create problems outside, but
also create problems inside. Consequently, many people have deficit of energy
that can easily lead them to stress and illness.
And before life plunged into a dangerous valley, let's learn to train your
mind to be more and more flexible. As the flowing water in the river, they do
not only have less conflict with the others, but they also have less energy to
be wasted. As a result, it is not only the body which is healthy, but the soul
also grow into a beautiful way.
One of the important quality in this case that should be developed is the
respect to differences. Quoting from a certain holy scripture: "ekam
sat vipra bahudha vadanthi". The truth is one, but the holy souls give it
many names. Let's look at the cow dung. For people who do not know farming and
grow in the city of alone, cow dung is dirt that must be
totally removed. But for the farmers in the village, cow dung is fertilizer which really needed by the plants.
The same thing happens with different views, different ideas, different
disciplines as well as other differences. To the very strong mind differences
are dangerous enemies, but to the flexible and water like mind differences are
seeds that can grow into rainbow of peace. While the strong mind put life
into the boxes of right-wrong, true-false, the water like mind learn to synthesizes
the bad and the good, the true and the false into the seeds of light. It is
similar to what happened with electric light, the synthesis of
negative-positive produce bright light.
As a simple yet deep foundation of daily activity, smile is very
helpful in this regard. When someone smiles diligently and honestly, the
muscles of the mind is getting more and more flexible. At the same time, there
are less energy to be wasted. To be frank, smile is also a kind of inner
synthesis of negative-positive which can produce inner light. And at the top of
the smile, the soul find nothing but peace.
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