If you in the moment of conflict are passively aware, then there is not left any track at all

 

There is only a finger´s difference between a wise man and a fool

- Diogenes

Another human being says to you: ”You are a fool!” 

You are yourself absent in your emotional evaluations, you don´t like it, and it leaves a track in your mind.

The other human being says something else, and also that leaves a track. These tracks are the images of memory, and in the memory exist the tracks of the evolution of million of years.

It is these condensed reactions, the tracks, which are blended with many other tracks, which form the images in time; a mixture of history and nature. It is a wonderful picture book, the samsarical common human weaving spirit of the fates, reaching deep into beautiful and terrible astral worlds.

But if you are yourself present and the other human being says to you: ”You are a fool!” if you in that moment are passively aware and feeling, then there is not left any track at all, because there is no displacement between challenge and reaction, but only a being, which is in the middle of itself, and characterized by fulfilment and naturalness.

Perhaps the other human is right?