How You Treat Others

August 13, 2003

How You Treat Others - Adyashanti

Spiritual people often want unconditional support and understanding

from their friends, family, and mates, but all too often seem blind

to their own short comings when it comes to the amount of

unconditional support and understanding that they give to others. I

have seen many spiritual people become obsessed with how unspiritual

others are and assume an arrogant and superior attitude while

completely missing the fact that they themselves are not nearly as

spiritually enlightened as they would like to think that they are.

Enlightenment can be measured by how compassionately and wisely you

interact with others; with all others, not just those who support you

in the way that you want. How you interact with those who do not

support you shows how enlightened you really are.

As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back you have not

taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means

that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you

happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop

setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in

order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all

conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who

and what you Are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has

a liberating effect on others.

The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers is to surrender

their self importance, and see the emptiness of their own personal

story. It is your personal story that you need to awaken from in

order to be free. To give up being either ignorant or enlightened is

the mark of liberation and allows you to treat others as your Self.

What I am describing is the birth of true Love.

~Adyashanti

LoveAlways,

Mazie & b

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