Listen "OUR SHARED WOUND."
Episode Synopsis
I'd like to share a brief reflection this morning, something we can delve into further later if you're interested. Lately, I've been increasingly conscious, especially in recent times, of the repercussions when I react from my own pain and project it onto others.
When I harm another sentient being, I'm inadvertently causing myself greater harm, magnified tenfold. It's a reciprocal cycle; when others inflict pain upon me, they're also inflicting it upon themselves, albeit amplified. This truth remains, irrespective of attempts to rationalize or distance ourselves from the experience.
The act of hurting others invariably rebounds on ourselves, because ultimately we are ONE love, not two but ONE! there is no other.
So, I offer you this to ponder—not to dwell excessively, but to deeply reflect within your own hearts.
We cannot expect to get free therefore of our pain by dumping it on another…no matter what., no matter what they have done to us.
Every time any one of us acts in a hurtful manner towards another being, we inflict tenfold harm upon ourselves in the process. Nigel Lott
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When I harm another sentient being, I'm inadvertently causing myself greater harm, magnified tenfold. It's a reciprocal cycle; when others inflict pain upon me, they're also inflicting it upon themselves, albeit amplified. This truth remains, irrespective of attempts to rationalize or distance ourselves from the experience.
The act of hurting others invariably rebounds on ourselves, because ultimately we are ONE love, not two but ONE! there is no other.
So, I offer you this to ponder—not to dwell excessively, but to deeply reflect within your own hearts.
We cannot expect to get free therefore of our pain by dumping it on another…no matter what., no matter what they have done to us.
Every time any one of us acts in a hurtful manner towards another being, we inflict tenfold harm upon ourselves in the process. Nigel Lott
Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY
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