A misunderstanding – a misunderstanding between aspects of the One Being we all are. A conflict between light and dark, between yes and no, between good and bad, between truth and lie. This conflict begins "long ago", in the conflict between mind and heart. The mind and heart are such that they can disagree almost to all the things. Their disagreements are not important, except when they take the form of war and conflict, of domination and conquest.
In this context, I always tend to remember one story:
An old Cherokee chief is teaching his grandson about life:
"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
"One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego.
"The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope,
serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
"This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old chief simply replied, "The one you feed."
Its a eternal war that goes on between them over who will take control over the other, the war of power, the war of authority! The "WE" in us is a consequence of this war. Every new fight sequence is a mother of a newborn emotion or a feeling or a reaction to some happening. Or body is the "Kurukshetra" for them. Our total existence remains on the fact that the fight goes on in a balanced way forever. The day the war ceases, we are dead. The mind wins over the heart at times when it is a question of rational calculated judgement. Whereas the heart, is a temporal organ(ism) who takes im"pulse"ive decisions and it often criticized the mind for doing that. As against this, the mind is rational and wins over the brain when it comes to deciding what to buy and what not to buy, even if the heart if fighting over its wants and love for some other stuff. Calculated risks and decisions are jobs of brain. But they are not always in good health and are always ridiculed over by the heart as being "acts of cowardliness". These organ(isms) often come together to fight another one, which is most of the times hazardous to all three : The Heart, The Mind and the Body. They fight collectively with "The Despair". Body in itself cannot survive as a barren piece or war land on which no war is being fought. It eventually dies and "The Despair" searches now for another territory. But most of the times, these two make up a good combo and give a good fight to "The Despair" and banish him out of the territory. Done that, they are again back to original foes and keep on fighting. Long live the war between the Heart and the Mind!
In this context, I always tend to remember one story:
An old Cherokee chief is teaching his grandson about life:
"A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
"One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego.
"The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope,
serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
"This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old chief simply replied, "The one you feed."
Its a eternal war that goes on between them over who will take control over the other, the war of power, the war of authority! The "WE" in us is a consequence of this war. Every new fight sequence is a mother of a newborn emotion or a feeling or a reaction to some happening. Or body is the "Kurukshetra" for them. Our total existence remains on the fact that the fight goes on in a balanced way forever. The day the war ceases, we are dead. The mind wins over the heart at times when it is a question of rational calculated judgement. Whereas the heart, is a temporal organ(ism) who takes im"pulse"ive decisions and it often criticized the mind for doing that. As against this, the mind is rational and wins over the brain when it comes to deciding what to buy and what not to buy, even if the heart if fighting over its wants and love for some other stuff. Calculated risks and decisions are jobs of brain. But they are not always in good health and are always ridiculed over by the heart as being "acts of cowardliness". These organ(isms) often come together to fight another one, which is most of the times hazardous to all three : The Heart, The Mind and the Body. They fight collectively with "The Despair". Body in itself cannot survive as a barren piece or war land on which no war is being fought. It eventually dies and "The Despair" searches now for another territory. But most of the times, these two make up a good combo and give a good fight to "The Despair" and banish him out of the territory. Done that, they are again back to original foes and keep on fighting. Long live the war between the Heart and the Mind!
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A war that never ends....
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