REFLECTION 36: THE INVISIBLE ONE

When someone sends negative energy towards you, if you become angry, you receive that energy.

In that moment, cause and effect is set in motion: because you have become negative, your frequency drops; while the other person-pleased to have achieved their aim-feels lighter and their frequency rises.

Energy is never lost. It only transforms-from one form to another, from one person to another. Your energy passes into their body and will be returned to you at the appropriate time. That is how karma operates.

1. When you are no longer a target for negative energy

In another case, someone pushes negative energy towards you, yet you do not flare up at all; your heart-mind does not stir. You remain calm and at ease, just as you were.

In that state, you are invisible to that energy.

It passes right through you-and because there is no recipient, it rebounds to its point of origin. The person trying to unsettle you will feel frustrated because things have not gone the way they wanted.

And the more they insist that you must feel sad, must suffer, must be upset for them to be satisfied, the more troubled they will become.

Here, you are standing outside the karmic chain: a harmful cause is not established; negativity is not escalated to a peak; and therefore it is far less likely for anything worse to unfold.

2. Respond with a compassionate heart

In such situations, even if your inner state is unmoved, it does not mean you must sit silently and say nothing.

Speak your view-clearly and confidently-but let your starting point be love for the person in front of you.

They are suffering. Often they are suffering deeply, yet they do not realise they are the one making themselves suffer. Later that night, they may still be turning it over and over in their mind, unable to sleep.

In this way, you avoid an unpleasant encounter-and at the same time, you sow a wholesome connection.

Keep practising like this and you will rebalance cause and effect: remove the seeds of harm, and plant more good seeds. In the future, only good results will ripen.

Here you are cultivating and shaping your own future-while also helping the other person release part of their karmic entanglement with you and learn their lesson.

The lesson is this: to cause suffering to others is, in truth, to cause suffering to oneself.

3. Live with a gentle and open nature

That is why the greatest blessing in this life is nothing greater than a gentle character.

When something can be endured, endure it. When something can be let go, let it go.

Big matters become small; small matters dissolve into nothingness.

One fewer enemy is one more friend.

No one is perfect. The world is vast, and there are all kinds of people-making it an excellent environment in which to refine the heart.

If you can widen compassion and love until it embraces everything, then you will have no enemies.

A life without worry, without fear, and with a natural ease is when you can truly taste the value of happiness.

4. Simplicity is happiness

Live simply. Know what is enough. Do not be fussy.

Worry a little less; think a little less.

Focus on living each moment fully-so you can feel the living world with an open heart.

That, without doubt, will not disappoint you.

You may seem 'invisible'-yet you are profoundly visible, fully present in this very moment.

What is yours will always be yours.

And what is not-no matter how hard you try-will, in the end, have to be returned.

Hoàng Nhật Minh
Excerpt from the book: Spiritual Science - A Journey Back To Your True Self

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