Let's
start with a journey, my horse, your dog
and our characters.
Creation and Character, the way you are created is perfect; every spiritual book
will tell you so, embrace all of who you are. SO you are either left confused
or wondering how that fits with your ego, it seems that the ego is only talked
about when you are sad, when your expectations have not been met and to
encourage you to accept life as it is.
Horses
are one of the most beautiful animals; they are fast, intelligent, affectionate
so are the characteristics of your dog and so is the true nature of your
creation. This is the exact explanation of embrace your self, love your self
and believe in your self.
This
image of a horse, a dog and your imaginary self is delusional. As the horse
that you think is beautiful and rides so well,.is a result of hard work, YES
hard work. The horse was not born with the discipline to ride from one place to
another in a manner, in which he is told to go beautiful and graciously. Your
dog does not pee on your carpet cause of discipline, barriers borders and rules
that you have imposed on it so you can co-habituate.
Discipline
and character are imperative to a person's transformation and success, any
spiritual school that does not require you to examine the goodness and
discipline of your character is not a true school of thought. So this is all
good and easily said but what is goodness of character and how do you find your
axis and middle point, you might say to me, I am loud and an extrovert this is
my nature why should I change, you are right and no one is asking you to change
that aspect of you, but be honest: the reason you are loud is because you need
attention, or you were not heard enough when you are young, or you feel
inferior.. there is an underlying cause to this trait of yours. Now think
about it deeply and honestly with yourself about the reality of the reason you
are loud.
Character
is not a reference to morality, I believe that if you are interested in spirituality
or even reading this, you understand that you must not kill, lie etc..
The
next stage of evolution for humans is to better and perfect our characters,
what does that mean? You would not feel so much love for your dog when he has
peed and chewed all your shoes, same goes for your admiration for a horse left
in a farm to its head and I mean literally to its head, those are not
attractive sights. Every situation has its different axis, let's use a most
common scenario, rush hour tube station, a line behind you, you are shy and
cannot speak up to call the attendant to help, everyone is late .. it's nice
for a girl to be shy, in this case no it is not. Now you are an aggressive
person, you start banging your card and shouting at the attendant, the
attendant and you have a fight and you delay the question, that's not goodness of
character.
Hence
goodness of character is not an intellectual guide line, this is why modern age
spirituality and ancient wisdoms have discussed it little in a sense that is
clear to be understood by us. How do you develop goodness of character if it is
not something taught by the mind... This is something I will leave you to
wonder about, I shall revisit this idea again with practical tools to ensure
the building of an upright character but let me leave you tips that might help:
1.)
Observe the roots of your actions and ask where do they come from and why am I
doing this
2.)
Truly deeply have the desire to change
Trained
horses are worth a fortune, so is your trained beautiful dog and when you
develop goodness of character image how invaluable you become..
No comments:
Post a Comment