5. The master: learning from situations
There’s a place within us that we can consider as our Master. It is that part which is triggered every time we silence the mind, we enter into a “retreat”, and it may even be a “retreat with company”.
When we are conflicting and suffering because of a situation, this Master can help us understand what is our part in the story, how we are contributing to keep the situation as it stands and what kind of behavior we need to modify before waiting for the other person’s change.
But there is another kind of Master which is the situation itself. Usually, when we get into a crisis and we suffer for real or imaginary losses, we are placed there because something needs change. We don’t choose to change spontaneously just because we need to evolve. Frequently life takes care of bringing us “the Masters”.
Needless to say, if we resist to suffering, it will be intensified. We can learn to see everything as a great opportunity to turn the game around.
