Echo Park, Los Angeles
I went for a pleasant walk around Echo Park lake over the weekend. I was enjoying the general feel of Spring in the air, while contemplating how to deal with a current situation the entails conflict. I was carrying a copy of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations for inspiration on the matters occupying my mindscape.
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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Thank you. Indeed, good reads alright.
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Great post. Marcus Aurelius must have read the Isha Upanishad. ....
“He who perceives all beings as the Self’ for him how can there be delusion or grief, when he sees this oneness (everywhere) ? He who perceives the Self everywhere never shrinks from anything, because through his higher consciousness he feels united with all life. When a man sees God in all beings and all beings in God, and also God dwelling in his own Soul, how can he hate any living thing? Grief and delusion rest upon a belief in diversity, which leads to competition and all forms of selfishness. With the realization of oneness, the sense of diversity vanishes and the cause of misery is removed.“
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Thanks for sharing the passage. You’ve inspired me to go for my own walk with a book today. I’ve been too lazy and indoors this weekend. Got to get out!
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Glad to see you had a nice meditative walk💜
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