Good or Bad

My teacher used to say there is no good or bad, there are only your thoughts about it. What is is, and it is regardless of how we judge it to be (good or bad). But how often is it that we plague ourselves with thoughts of things we are experiencing - from the miniscule to the major - that are all about that self-same judgment of good or bad.

If we could be more like the rose splashed with water - the water droplets slide all over the petals, the roots are alerted to moisture and simply suck it in, while exhaling whatever it is that plants exhale. The rose is affected by the water, but it has no opinion about it, it simply lives on in its own merry way, blossoming and blooming, and glistening with water drops occasionally.

Good or bad has only the meaning you give to it, otherwise, life can be like drops of rain, affecting you but not defining you.

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2009 Darshan F Jessop