Nice article Samten. I read an article by Natasha Hoffman this week in the Cygnus Review (lovely New Age book company based in Wales) that said that learning to cope with tyrants was a big lesson for those on a spiritual path.
I'm beginning to understand that, at the personal level, it is not possible to grow spiritually without meeting a tyrant or two and learning about ourselves from them. They too are teachers and what we can learn from them is how to shift negative energy and treansform it into light; into lightness of being. It is impossible to tiptoe past them, because they have big ears and will inevitably hear your footsteps.
There will always be someone who tries to pull you down to your level & bully you into their world view. I've been doing a lot of self- reflection over the past couple of weeks & realised that whenever someone has provoked me in the past I have risen to the bait, even though arguing is something that upsets me. Now I am just starting to realise that I don't need to do this. I'm allowed to take a step back, shrug & think 'oh well let it go, we aren't going to agree and I don't have an obligation to pay attention and respond to everyone that tries to argue with me.'
