Daily Meditation: Thursday, November 18, 1999

Every day life presents us with complex situations and we …

11/18/1999

Every day life presents us with complex situations and we need to learn to be flexible in order to cope with them. There are people who react in the same way to every circumstance, using the same means, the same methods, whatever the situation. However, since every problem has its own specific solution, these people never stop running full tilt into obstacles. You need to be flexible, and flexibility is all about being more of a psychologist, more of an educationalist, more of a diplomat – but not a diplomat in the pejorative sense of hypocritical and sly. True diplomacy implies wisdom. The sage is a diplomat who knows the most beneficial method to choose to do maximum good in every given situation, or vis-a-vis any individual. A sage, a true sage, thinks and finds ways to manoeuvre like a sailor who knows the currents and reefs, and knows how to steer his craft to avoid shipwreck. Flexibility therefore implies wisdom. To be flexible in life means to have wisdom and psychological insight.