Message #44046

[guest587]

Thanks Steve.

I admire your willingness to provide a thoughtful reply.

I'm at a stage where I have to shut my self up and recognize the greater good. I really like this second stage where he says giving good for good and good for evil. Not evil for evil. Having such challenging dynamics in my family house hold, it's easy to call ugly behavior evil. But it isn't. It's easy to hold on to a spiteful attitude towards those who behave disrespectfully or cold heartedly towards you. But I have witnessed first hand, just shortly after sharing this, the benefit of giving good for evil.

The effects are so liberating... Not just for parties directly involved, but for the environment too. It's like a widening effect on my soul, a deeper understanding and a lightening ones load.

What attracts me to HIK as a Master, or masters in general- is their ability to remain nestled in divine realization no matter the circumstance. To be in a crowd, amongst your peers, sharing your living space with someone, your family- strangers, in personal and intimate relationships.

It's one thing to be a hermit and believe you are a zen master, it's another thing to be in a city or among all the different attitudes- through joy and suffering, able to see the true self no matter the challenges.

Usually the challenges are because we are identified with the ego, whereas the Masters are identified with the Soul.