As I was meditating today to detoxify my mind from all negative thoughts, a thought arose in my mind. How can I remove the impact of the negative memories embedded in the mind? And I got the answer quickly. It is easy to detoxify my mind if I could follow two things.
Mind is a storage of positive and negative memories. The first thing I should do to all those bad memories is to forgive the person who created them. Whether the person and the incident had come out of the cruelty, hatred, or misunderstanding of another person – the very first thing that our mind needs to do is to forgive. We need to take it out of the mind and clear the negative factor.
Next, if you want to forget any of the negative memories and forgive the person who had created the negative memory, then the best way is to consider all your contributions to that person as a sacrifice. If you are bound to sacrifice without any expectations, then forgiving becomes easy.
This has an educational value. The most important thing that a teacher can impart to the students is to do everything as a form of sacrifice. For instance, when we go to a temple, a church, or a mosque we need to pray in total sacrifice. In doing so, we become the humblest and simplest person there. And when you become humble and simple, what you do is – a sacrifice.
Similarly, learning is a sacrifice, writing an examination is a sacrifice, exploring the learning is a sacrifice, thinking is a sacrifice, and analyzing is a sacrifice. And when students perform their actions as sacrifices, then they do not have to expect anything out of it, good or bad. This enables a student to learn how to live without creating enmity and be the owner of a loving mind.
