When a mood arises for or against someone, don't direct it at the person in question,
and stay centered. When hatred arises for someone or against someone or love for someone, what do we do? We transfer it to the person. If you hate me, you forget yourself entirely in your hatred; only I remain as your object. If you feel love for me, you completely forget yourself; only I remain as your object. You project your hate or your love or whatever onto me. You completely forget the inner center of your being. The other becomes the center.
This sutra says when hatred or love or any other mood arises for or against someone:
"Don't point it at the person in question." Remember, you are its source.
I love you. The usual feeling is that you are the source of my love. This is not so.
I am the source. You are just a screen on which I project my love.
You're just a screen; I transfer my love to you, and I say that you are the source of my love. See also: 10 things that will free you from worries and stress
This is not so. This is a scam. I draw my love energy and transfer it to you.
By this transference of the love energy upon you, you become loved. You may not be loved by anyone else. You may be absolutely repulsive to someone else. Why? If you are the source of love, then everyone should feel love for you. But you are not the source. I transmit love and you become loved; someone else is carrying hate and you become disgusted. And someone else does not care: you are indifferent to him; he may not even have looked at you. What is happening? We project our own moods onto others.
That's why when you drive on your honeymoon, the moon looks beautiful, wonderful, wonderful.
It's like the whole world is different. And that same night for your neighbor, that wonderful night, may not exist for him at all. His child died; then this same moon is sad, unbearable. And for you she is enchanted, charming; she is maddening. Why? Is the moon the source or is it just a screen and you are projecting yourself?
This sutra says:
"When the mood arises for or against someone, do not take it out on the person in question..." (or on the object in question). Stay centered. Remember that you are the source, so do not move towards the other: move towards the source. When you feel hate, don't target the object. Go where the hate is coming from. It goes not to the person to whom it is directed, but to the center from which it comes. Move to the center; turn inward; use your hate or love or anger or whatever as a means of moving to the inner center, to the source.
Move to the source and stay centered there.
Try it! It's a very, very scientific technique. Someone has offended you; suddenly anger erupts; you are mad. Anger flows towards the person who offended you. Now you're going to take all that anger out on him.
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He hasn't done anything. If he offended you, what did he do?
He only stung you a little, helped your anger to emerge - but the anger is yours. If he goes to the Buddha and insults him, he will not be able to arouse any anger in him. Or if he goes to Jesus, Jesus will turn the other cheek to him. Or if he goes to Bodhidharma, he will burst out laughing. Everything is different.
The source is not in the other. The source is always with you.
The other is the hidden source, but if anger is absent in you, it will never manifest itself. If you strike a Buddha, only compassion will appear, because there is only compassion there. No anger will arise because there is no anger there. Read more: The clay in your hands
If you throw a bucket into a dry well, you won't get anything out.
You throw a bucket into a well full of water and get water, but the water is from the well. The bucket only helps you get it out. So if someone offends you, it is like a bucket thrown at you and then the bucket will be pulled out full of anger, hatred or the fire that is inside you. You are the source, remember.
Remember that you are the source of everything you bring to others:
always remember this. And when the mood for or against arises, immediately turn inward and go to the source of that hatred. Stay centered there; do not aim at the object. Someone has given you the chance to realize your own anger: thank them immediately and forget it. Close eyes. Go within and direct your attention to the source from which this anger or love springs. From where? Go inside; move inward: you will find the source there, for anger springs from your source.
Hate or love or whatever comes from your source.
And it's easier to go to the source when you're angry or in love or hating because then you're hot. Then it's easier to get into it. The wire is hot and you can use it. You can go inside with the help of this heat.
And when you reach a cold point inside, you will suddenly become aware of a different dimension, a different world spread out before you. Use anger, use love to go within.
We always use them to go to each other and get very upset if there is no one to turn to.
We project even on inanimate objects.
I have seen people angry at their shoes, throwing them away in their anger. What are they doing?
I have seen angry people in their anger banging on the door, taking out their anger on the door, cursing the door, using dirty words about the door. What are they doing?
I'll close with a Zen insight about this.
One of the greatest Zen teachers, Lindsay, was fond of saying, “When I was young, I really liked boating. I had a small boat and I used to go to the lake alone. I stayed there for hours.
One day it so happened that with my eyes closed in my boat I was meditating on the wonderful night.
Carried by the current, an empty boat floated by and slammed into mine. My eyes were closed and I thought:
"There's somebody here in a boat and he hit my boat." Anger appeared. An opening
their eyes and I was about to say something angry to this person. Then I realized that the boat was empty. After that I couldn't go on.
On whom should I vent my anger? The boat was empty. She was floating with the current and she came and hit me.”
There was nothing for him to do. There was no way he could take his anger out on the empty boat.
So, Lindsay said, “I closed my eyes. I was furious – but seeing no way out, I closed my eyes and just sailed back with my anger. And that empty boat became my Realization. Calm the mind with meditation
I reached a point within me in that silent night. This empty boat became my guru.
And now, if someone comes in a boat and insults me, I laugh and say that this boat is also empty.
I close my eyes and go inside.”
Use this technique. She can do wonders for you.” Read also: Inner peace, not material possessions, is the true measure of success
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