After you walk a certain mile on the Path,
beware of the subtle pride. It’s one of the pitfalls.
I hope this will strike the recognition of this tendency
of the human mind. Don’t fool yourself you are immune to it.
Just simply be aware.
In certain times the subtle pride will play a peek-a-boo.
Just question it: “Who is the one who knows better then the other?”
And see the separation. The mind plays these tricks.
Get still just for a moment. “The thought said so”,
will be the silent answer.
Yes, it is that easy. But it’s not, to catch it!
At times of pride we love that feeling of the “one who knows”.
Self-elevation and superiority are very subtle feelings,
And if we give in to them, we lost in the delusion,
if only for a moment.
We just regroup, and start again. Awareness.
The very thing that is aware of the feeling and slipping into it,
turn there. What do you see? The silence. Stillness. No one there.
No knower. No you. The subtle pride dissolved
into the real Knowing.
I hope this will strike the recognition of this tendency
of the human mind. Don’t fool yourself you are immune to it.
Just simply be aware.
In certain times the subtle pride will play a peek-a-boo.
Just question it: “Who is the one who knows better then the other?”
And see the separation. The mind plays these tricks.
Get still just for a moment. “The thought said so”,
will be the silent answer.
Yes, it is that easy. But it’s not, to catch it!
At times of pride we love that feeling of the “one who knows”.
Self-elevation and superiority are very subtle feelings,
And if we give in to them, we lost in the delusion,
if only for a moment.
We just regroup, and start again. Awareness.
The very thing that is aware of the feeling and slipping into it,
turn there. What do you see? The silence. Stillness. No one there.
No knower. No you. The subtle pride dissolved
into the real Knowing.
