Favor and disgrace seem alarming.
High status greatly afflicts your person.
Why are favor and disgrace alarming?
Seeking favor is degrading:
Alarming when it is gotten,
Alarming when it is lost.
Why does high status greatly afflict your person?
The reason we have a lot of trouble
Is that we have selves.
If we had no selves,
What trouble would we have?
Man’s true self is eternal,
Yet he thinks. I am this body and will soon die.
If we have no body, what calamities can we have?
One who sees himself as everything
Is fit to be guardian of the world.
One who loves himself as everyone
Is fit to be teacher of the world,
Don't take your own self too seriously, and all your troubles will disappear……can that be true? What if our thoughts and feelings are like clouds in the sky or reflections in the water? We surely don't have to feel responsible for them, because we aren’t. The Tao teaches that whatever is suppose to come our way will come with perfect alignment. We are also taught that other’s opinions about who we are, shouldn’t be taken into account, because what they think of us, is none of our business.
What we do have control over is how we are going to feel and react. Choosing to feel peaceful gives yourself the right to feel good. If we feel offended, we are judging others to be foolish, inconsiderate, rude, or insensitive. No one can define you with their judgments, and you don’t have the privilege of defining others. When we stop judging we will find inner peace, free of contention, free of negative energy, and free of resentments. The gift will be inner peace and love which holds no resentments and quickly offers forgiveness. “Love One Another”
2 comments:
Love the picture. I think we all take ourselves too seriously sometime! I've got to be better.
Thanks Nancy...the picture is of course Jason's. It is the pond in Loafer Canyon, close enough for the kids to go fishing in. It is going to be so beautiful. We need to take a trip up there this summer.
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