Acceptance

Eks1: Why are people the way they are?

Eks2: People are whoever they are without knowing who they are

Eks1: Why is it that things which are so obvious to me are not so for others?

Eks2: Maybe because whats obvious to others is not obvious to you

Eks1: There is something fundamentally wrong with the way people behave in this world

Eks2: You sure the problem is with the behaviour & not the thinking?

Eks1: I dont care where the problem lies, but it is getting tougher for me to accept things the way they are.

Eks2: Well, you dont have to accept it

Eks1: Things are so bad that I would have to cutoff myself from this filthy existence if I dont accept it

Eks2: Read this beautiful poem

The Great Way is not difficult
For those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent
Everything becomes clear and undisguised.
Make the smallest distinction, however
And heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.

If you wish to see the truth
Then hold no opinions for or against anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike
Is the disease of the mind
When the deep meaning of things is not understood
The minds essential peace is disturbed to no avail.

The Way is perfect like vast space
Where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess.
Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject
That we do not see the true nature of things.

Live neither in the entanglements of outer things,
Nor in the inner feelings of emptiness.
Be serene in the oneness of things
And such erroneous views will disappear by themselves.
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity
Your very effort fills you with activity.
As long as you remain in one extreme or the other
You will never know Oneness.

- Sengstan