Eyes and Ill-Will

Eyes and Ill-Will - (4332)

Blindness

We were taught that the karma for hatred is blindness.

I always wondered why. One day when I was observing myself, I discovered that when the thoughts and feelings of ill-will are present we really use our eyes intensely.

It seems very difficult to have ill-will without seeing. Just imagine being blind, it would be so hard to have ill-will. We would not to be able to see what the other person looks like, what facial expressions they are displaying, what they are doing, how they are doing things, how they are walking, what mistakes they are making etc.

Even being blind we can't really seriously hurt someone. If we tried we would probably hurt ourselves in the process.

When we have ill-will or some degree of hatred we can not see the truth of the person, nor can we see the bigger picture. With ill-will present we can not see one good point about the person. The truth is everyone has their good points even if the number is small there are still good points.

With ill-will we can not see that everyone of us are connected and united to each other. Ill-will does not see that by having ill-will towards another we actually are bringing ill-will to ourselves.

In short ill-will is the most blind characteristic we have as it ignores the truth about people and ourselves. It in fact can not see the truth and after a while does not want to either.

So being blind is the medicine for us to no longer express ill-will. Turn a blind-eye is really helpful when we are so out of balance because of ill-will.

Conclusion

In conclusion if we want to reduce ill-will we can easily do that by not looking. Just divert our eyes. The less we look the less information ill-will has to play and strengthen itself with.

End (4332).

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