The Inner Symphony

Global warming, that is the theme of many discussions everywhere. Mountains of ice that never melted for hundred of years, suddenly they are melting. The increasing uncertainty of season happens everywhere. Some fellows conclude that nature is no longer the friend of human being. It begins to become the threats of many lifes, particularly after many tsunami, earth quake, flooding that consume countless life. To be honest, it is not only the physical side of life that becomes warmer and warmer, the social, the phsychological and the spiritual side of life are also the same. Stress, depression, insomnia, suicide, conflict, war, divorce are all increasing from time to time. It raises a simple question, is it true that human civilization is progressing? The land of acceptance When a farmer found that vegetables fail to grow in the land, usually he will look for the causes in his side. Whether because of the short supply of water, lack of vertilizer or planting in the wrong season.
However, when people have problems among themselves, we are easily seek the causes in the others fault, not contemplate it in our inner side as farmer deal with vegetables. This might be the root of many warming condition of life. Look at couples who are ready to divorce, both claim themselves as right and pointing the couples as false. Listen to the arguments of terroris who destroyed a lot of lifes, there is no space of truth to the others. 0bserve closely on the reasons behind United States government attacked to Afghan and Iraq, in certain point even put the others under the tittle of the axis of evil. In the light of these experiences, it is really touching when a teacher whispered onced to his student: “When you have a time to talk, just talk about the positive sides of the others. When you have a time to contemplate, contemplate your negative sides”. This might be a good beginning, cultivate the roots of problems in ourself. Imagine that one morning a neighboor put a box of fresh cowdung in front of your house. Most people will respond angrily, some even will put another human shit to the box before throw it back. But a very few wise person will murmur: ‘Wait, l have never had problem with this neighboor. May be they found that my flowers in the garden are short supply of fertilizer’. Life is similar to a cowdung. If the way we see it is full of hatred and anger, we will get enemies, even conflict and war. But when we learn to see it wisely, positively, we gained friendship and happiness. Now it is your choice, whether you will see life negatively or wisely. Many friends complained, why is it so difficult to respond wisely in life?. Usually most people respond negatively first, later realized that it was not a wise respond. Inspired by the story of the farmer who plant vegetables in the beginning, the root is inside us, in our way to put meaning on every day life. We all grow in the environment that favouring success over failure, winning over losing, right over wrong, good over bad. As a consequence of it, we only accept the positive side of ourself and neglect the negative one. And as has been taught by nature, without any opportunity of bargaining, positive side is always followed by negative one. In this moment of contemplation, the crucial point is learning to make life as the land of acceptance. Accepting success, praise, job promotion are actually easy. But only the wise who are able to be the friend of failures, enemies and blame. Failure is not a waste, it gives us feed back on our true ability. Enemies are not poison of life, they kindly guide us to be patient and humble. Being blamed is not always bad, when we are able to respond calmly, it is a great lesson of equinimity. Those who successfully transformed life into the land of acceptance, they will find that any day is the day of inner symphony. Like the true symphony, it consist of many instruments (success-failure, friend-enemy, praise-blame), but when life orchestrated wisely and meaningfully all events sound to be beautiful. Wifes can keep grumbling, but can you see a lesson of being patient? Husbands can keep blaming, is there any wifes who see an opportunity to be wiser? Neighbor can continue with their negative habits, isn’t it a moment of contemplation?