Daily Meditation: Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Enemy - which we all risk becoming to ourselves

07/27/2016

Of all the suffering and unhappiness humans have to endure, the greatest is that which they constantly inflict on each other and, at the same time, on themselves. You don’t believe me? You will soon see what I mean. Suppose someone has expressed thoughts, feelings or wishes you do not share, and you start to think of this person as an enemy and decide to fight them. From now on, you begin to interpret their whole behaviour in a negative light, you feel attacked when in reality they wish you no harm, and they don’t even know what you are holding against them. You are creating an enemy for yourself just by the way you are thinking of them, as well as destroying something in your heart and mind. So you are your own enemy, taking up arms against yourself. Well, how intelligent is that?