We need to save our mind from the negative Cloud
The negative cloud comes and just grabs your mind and then turns and churns into your question and makes
[self-righteous] and puts everything out and then
That is the way to become miserable.
People who are miserable they all have a big question in their mind; a
question for which they don't even want to get the answer.
They refuse to take the answer, but they are holding on to the question and struggling.
Really what I'm saying
An unanswered question
ferments inside you and becomes violence.
Yesterday I was with a group of young people from Baltimore
and they were all bothered with big questions in their mind.
You...you, they just just ask the question, someone just listens to them, that is good enough for them...
for the time being. They don't even...even if you answer the questions
they feel offended. If you accept that they had a question, there is an issue...
that satisfies them.
This is a skill that we all need to learn when we deal with people around us.
People come to you asking a question, you think they're sincerely looking for an answer. No, they simply want
that you listen to them.
Got it?
They're not that intelligent to
really look for an answer. They want someone who is listening to them. Someone who is
accommodating them. They want to know that someone understands them.
Now there is a difference between understanding someone's issue and sympathizing with them.
if you sympathize with
people in negative mood, I tell you your concreting their belief in that
whatever their are...their illusion. You are making their illusion concrete.
People with different type of illusions in the planet, they're all living in their little world.
If someone is behaving very badly it is because they are victim themselves, their heart.
Somewhere they are pained, they need healing touch.
They need that
sense of accommodation. They need that someone is hearing them.
Because nobody can be bad or behave badly without a reason.
If someone is an extremist, is
beheading people,
you know I offer to even talk to them and they mentioned that when they wrote a threat letter to me,
you wanted to have dialogue with us.
And this is the state you will be...they showed a picture of somebody will beheaded, yeah
we would like to meet with you soon.
Why, because the people,
extremists are people.
But in their mind, in their heart there is scar, there is wound,
there is negative cloud, and so they're behaving like that. A scientist would look at them this way.
One is condemned people, they condemn them. You are a terrorist. You're hopeless. I condemn you.
Another is with compassion, embrace them.
It's not difficult to condemn anybody. You can very easily, any Tom, Dick or Harry. Any fool can condemn anybody.
But it needs courage to embrace them.
Understand them. Create a room for them and communicate with them.
This is important. If we all start communicating with people who we condemn, I
tell you you can make an impact in their lives. You can change them. You can bring them and
that is what...
as a teacher...
a teacher cannot afford to condemn anybody.
Or oust anybody It's like a doctor...
cannot refuse to treat anybody.
Doesn't it say in the code of conduct of a doctor?
Someone comes with an issue, and they don't even know that they have an issue, and you have to, that's your dharma.
You're duty to help them.
so condemning
is easy,
but showing compassion and transforming someone is a challenge.
And the brave one will take the challenge. The wise one will take challenge. The intelligent one will take the challenge.