Daily Meditation: Thursday, September 9, 2010

Opponents - give us the opportunity to strengthen ourselves

09/09/2010

Neither what you are - however great your virtues - nor the social position you hold - however high it may be - will be able to prevent your having opponents. In life, we always have to fight, but there are two kinds of fighting: one where you do away with your opponents and the other where you spare them. If you do away with your opponents, you will have no more fighting, and this will be catastrophic: you will no longer make progress! If you spare them so you can fight them all your life, you will continue to get stronger. Just think how many people try to get rid of their enemies! And what happens when they finally succeed? They don't feel any happier; they have the feeling that something is missing, for they needed their opponents to pit themselves against. So you shouldn't do away with your opponents, but know how to go about making yourself stronger, improving yourself - and improving them, too, at the same time! But you will only succeed so long as you see them as necessary agents for your evolution.