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Articles: My Thoughts | Open mind
- gOpika
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We commit mistakes and justify them with the excuses that fit to support our behaviour which inturn fail us to perceive what is wrong and what is right. When we seek personal gratification, that seeking colors our perception. Sparing others of their mistakes is wise to sparing oneself. If we spare ourselves we never can evolve as good human beings.
No agitations will shake one whose actions abandon personal attachments. A mistake is a mistake when committed by someone or our kith and kin or by our ownselves. Offer yourself to truth and let the truth have its way untouched by personal impressions. Do we react the sameway to our mistakes just as we do to other's?
We gain pleasant or unpleasant experiences as events take place in daily life. We brand external factors as good or bad and fail to see that internally, our outlook contributes significantly to the quality of our experiences. We are elated if things go our way and are hurt if otherwise.
What happens when we do not seek anything for ourselves? Can the seeker – of pleasure, position or praise – go out of the scene, and can we meet life with an open mind?
The open mind is certainly not a dull mind. It is very sensitive to beauty, to pain and to genuine needs of life. It is free from cravings born of residues from past experiences. Mechanical repetition of “I want such and such response from so and so” is absent. The mind is ready to welcome anything new and unknown.
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