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Bad becomes good

Those who have gotten out of the habit of judging things, people and events do not necessarily have to read on.

All others, still in the hamster wheel, poor souls, they should go deeper here. Buddha admonished his followers several times that nothing is as it appears to us, that everything comes anyway as it must come, that we can not even overlook how things are really connected.

I, for my part, have gotten out of the habit of making judgments, sometimes old tendencies come up, but in general I don't do it anymore.

No matter which event hits me, no matter how it affects me, I cannot foresee the effects, neither in the short term, nor in the medium term or in the long term. For that I lack the objectivity, the knowledge, the tools. My body can sort out such sensitivities much better than my intellect, but very few people listen to their body, such hunches are suspicious to them.

Many events, which I thought to be "bad" in the first moment, turned out to be "good" afterwards (the knowing reader sees that there is no "good" and no "bad", nor can there be). For instance, when I got so sick that I quit smoking. Of my own will I might not have been able to do it, but I had to cough so much, when I saw just one cigarette it shook me. First I was sick, very sick, a severe cold for almost a month, but this had a "positive" effect on my health, I stopped smoking because of it.

Or the day I separated from my wife, it was so sad, my body was shaken, my soul was torn, a deep sadness settled inside me. My sweet daughter, we had to separate, the marriage was shattered, a drama for all concerned. In the very place where I saw "my" family for the last time, that's exactly where I met my current partner. Everything that was not harmonious with my ex-wife (for some reason), all that is now with the new partner completely without problems. But I don't want to judge, it is what it is, it comes as it must come.

When the next mishap happens to you, you should consider whether good things could come out of it, what positive consequences would be conceivable, and whether it would simply not matter, good or bad, up or down, right or left, it comes exactly as it should come.

From good becomes bad, from bad also good.

The way is the goal!

Do not abandon your own salvation for the sake of the greatest salvation of others.

- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480

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