Barefoot Doctor Bit: What’s the Best Way to Handle a Lying Rival?
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What’s the Best Way to Handle a Lying Rival?
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Barefoot Doctor: “One way is to sprinkle itching powder in their underwear though if you are unable to get close then visualising them surrounded in an invisible egg of immobilizing white light is an effective means of neutralising them.
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It’s also important to remind yourself that the Great Way (the natural flow of events) will always swing round your way sooner or later, providing you operate with integrity and honour. Life and its events comprise an ongoing, unfolding theatre, in which sometimes you’re required to play one role, sometimes another, so when you find yourself being the victim of slander trust that in the next phase, justice will be yours.
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To do this successfully you’ll need to trust in the essential benign nature of reality and have patience to ride out the discomfort but in time others will instinctually know you’ve been a victim of slander and your reputation will remain intact or even improve as a result.
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The best way to accelerate this karmic process is to actually (internally) thank the perpetrator for providing you a meaty bit of life-lesson learning, to see them as the Buddha in disguise. By doing that you neutralize negative energy and so enables the positive force to grow in the dynamic with less obstruction.
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Questions by Skrufff.
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Barefoot Doctor Bit: How Do You Toughen Up (against life’s hard knocks?)
Barefoot Doctor: “Nothing serves quite as well as a metaphor as entering a martial arts contest.
When you train in tai chi combat (one of the martial arts I practice), you learn to ‘invest in loss’, which means you lose the identification with the surface aspect of the self, that part of you associated with all things temporal, and instead learn to identify with the imperishable core within, that aspect of you that bears witness as your life unfolds through both the ups and downs with equanimity.
It’s like assuming what you normally think of as you, doesn’t actually exist, as if you’ve already died and hence have no life to lose in battle. Like this you become both fearless, hence hard to beat, and naturally inured to the inevitable occasional knocks.
But rather than this toughen you up, it actually softens you, in a similar way to an iron bar wrapped in cotton-wool lagging. In other words, rather than assuming you have to develop a tough exterior to withstand the knocks, focus on identifying more and more with that imperishable aspect of self at your core and you’ll find you hardly feel the knocks at all.
And paradoxically, once the knockers realize they’re not impacting on who you really are, they tend to get bored and go and bother someone else instead. So you win both ways.
In short, visualize yourself as a tiger, your bones as powerful and indestructible as iron bars but your surface all lovely, soft and furry, and in no time the knocks of life will no longer be much of an issue.”
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