The 37th KnowComplaints Inspirition.

Greetings,

If we're going to find peace with others we need to have compassionate expectations and allow for mistakes. Especially as we become more skillful in our lives, we have to watch that we don't unconsciously raise the bar for everyone else and get more frustrated.

It's like when a smoker quits they get really reactive to other people's smoking. It's the same with the practice of kindness. If you were to try to be kinder as a practice, all the inconsideration around you will feel 5 times as bad and the critical mind will make everyone around you wrong. It's very important to continue to be forgiving and patient to those less fortunate as we grow. They're less fortunate because they still can't free themselves enough from the complaining, critical and condemning mind to be free to change and they suffer because of it.

My experience says that it doesn't make sense to judge people's intentions by their level of capability. There are not good people and bad people; there are just different kinds of good people. Many are ignorant and driven to do really unconscious things by their shadows, but my belief is they are no less spiritual or loving at their core than anyone else. This is the foundation of compassion and forgiveness.

Peace to you,

Bryan

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