CHAPTER 15: WHEN WE MATURE
Author: Hoàng Nhật Minh
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Created: 2026-04-05 18:44:31
Updated: 14:50pm 04/05/2026
The sapling and the shade
A young sapling said to the wind:
I'm afraid-there's no big tree to shelter me.
The wind replied:
If you always stay in the shade, how will you ever discover that you, too, can reach the sky?
We mature when we learn to stand steady on our own, even while the wind still blows.
A tree that has grown does not fear storms, because it has sent its roots deep into the earth.
1. What does it mean to mature?
Maturity has little to do with age.
It has everything to do with the degree to which we take responsibility for ourselves.
A mature person does not blame, does not wait to be rescued, and does not fear change.
They understand this: no one is obliged to make them happy.
They are responsible for their own feelings.
2. Not leaning on others, not depending
When we rely on someone else for our joy, we also hand them the power to make us suffer.
True freedom begins when we can stand on our own two feet.
That does not mean isolation or shutting down.
It means knowing how to love in freedom- connected without being bound.
3. Not afraid-because we understand
Fear is born of not knowing.
When we understand the laws of life- birth and death, cause and effect, conditions and karma- we fear less, because we see that everything has its reason for being.
A mature person knows how to move with nature: not resisting the current, yet not being swept away by it.
They are like bamboo- flexible, yet enduring; bending, yet not breaking.
To mature is to stop searching for a support, because you have become your own.
Hoàng Nhật Minh
Excerpt from the book: Spiritual Science - A Journey Back To Your True Self
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