Look within yourself

I look at myself. I look through myself. I understand ?me? clearly. I look into my physical self to find my human nature until I thoroughly understand it. Then I look deeper into my spiritual self, to find my transcendental nature, until I understand this too. Once I understood myself, I understood others and everything else. This is the way of Dhamma. It sounds strange but it is true and it is profound. Try to understand ourselves truly, and we will understand everything and everyone else clearly, because this world is about us. Look inside us and we will see the world clearly. But the ways of the world are not like this?we tend to look at others and try to understand them instead of ourselves. When we fail to understand them we get frustrated. By looking so hard at others, we forget to look at ourselves. Acting this way will never help us truly understand. As for me, I look to myself to understand ?me? first. Then I will understand others.

May 5,1980