No 96 of Living Life Series 1
Do cultivate blessings by associating with the wise aspects or attributes of men and not the unwise or negative aspects. What is wise may appear not as simple for what is good is often a range and not a point.
Generally, we must not subscribe to bad attributes. Denial and self destruction is one extreme and over indulgence and attachment is the other.
What is wise and good is not exactly the middle approach but the dynamic balanced approach where we are at peace, are not attached nor detached. We are at peace and ease with the swirls of life, the yin and the yang.
We cannot run away from yin and yang of life. We should not allow ourselves to be swept around by the swirl of yin and yang of life. We must step on and be above the flux of yin and yang, or worldly contingencies such as gain / loss, praise / blame, honour / dishonour, repute and disrepute, birth and death, extreme wealth and abject poverty, over-involvement and under involvement, self torture and hyperchondriacal and frantic concern with health etc.
Honour those who are worthy of honour. We must be correct in doing this. Rejoice in the good of others and not be envious. We do not end up trying to gain their pleasure nor (incur) displeasure. We do not worship men but divinity
The above principles are depicted in the image of the lord saint* seated on dragon chair (the divine spirit) with spectre of Divine mission (God's mission) in one hand, with other hand in salutation (of wisdom and divinity) and both feet astride the two extremes of life (the yin and yang).
In addition, we must associate with the right external environment (physical and social environment) and ensure a congenial internal environment we create in our mind.
We must modulate both the external and the internal universe.
We can do so by opening up and harnessing the blessings and not the frustrations and the woes, that is, maximising the blessings and minimising the frustrations, woes and hiccups.
So let us be good. This is both simple and yet not so simple. But do be good to our self by being good.
Extract from
The Inner Truth
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