Like Children
With some egos we can be exactly like children, where identified
with the ego, we throw a temper tantrum wanting what it wants and not caring
about the many other very good reasons why we should just that desire go!
Many egos do this, lust does this, self-love does this,
resentment does this, jealousy does this, fear does this.
When the instincts and petty emotions are involved and we
can’t or don’t want to sacrifice them we are exactly like children.
To be mature is to be able to see that the desires of the
ego are whims and that they are not going to benefit ourselves, the situation
or all or most of the others.
To be Mature
To be mature is to be able to take a no, to respect other’s
will, to be able to sacrifice inferior things for more reasonable things, to be
able to see past the short term gains and to the long term benefits, to be able
to accept the difficulties of life with strength and understanding, to be able
to think of others, to be able to consider others, to be able to sacrifice our
silly inferior negative state to rise to the nature of the occasion that we are
facing, to be able accept difficulties, show up and take them on the chin with
humility but with a firm resolve to solve or better them.
Conclusion
Our essence is mature, it has within it the experience of millennia
and so to be mature is to be like our essence. The ego in us is what makes us
immature when we identify with it.
Basically when we don’t see that we have to sacrifice, or
that we can’t imagine how we are going to get past the difficulty or we can’t
see that we are going to be fine within that difficulty then we go into
immature mode, but this is not needed. What is needed sometimes with some egos
is to think, feel and act mature and take the difficulties as they are and work
to better them or make ourselves to feel better within them.
End (1152).
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