Walking In Others’ Shoes

Let’s say you dislike a group of people and their way of life intensely. They, in turn, dislike you and your way of life. This situation is due to our ideas about others’ religion, culture, politics … and each side believes it’s right.

What if our mind is filled with so much dislike that, due to karma, we were then born into the very group we disliked. Wouldn’t we then be disliking the people we used to be? 🙂

Dislike is the karma we carry with us. Liking too much is also karma, which could be why we’re so easily addicted to certain things or ideas.

We live on a precarious tightrope when we ignore this, and continue in a vicious cycle of samsaric existence of me, my likes and my dislikes, all because of a self-identity that forgot it is pure consciousness.

When we identify with and obsess about others’ ideas,
we walk in others’ shoes.

Our true reality is pure consciousness,
sans likes, sans dislikes, sans everything.