Mundary people by David Dhaen
In my distant childhood I was struck by a story by V. Bianki about two hunters — a townsman and a forest man. Having killed a bear in the evening, the townsman remembered his friend’s advice that in winter one can have a nice night’s sleep in a bear’s skin. However, disdaining to get dirty with blood, he decided to wrap up warm and soft fur inside. In the morning, the townsman woke up in icy captivity, as during the night the frost had fettered the blood-wet hide outside with “iron hoops”. That would have been the end of him, but a friend found him, rescued him, and instructed him: “The fur should go outside. That way it’s warm on the inside and it doesn’t get cold on the outside.” I remember imagining very vividly how repugnant the choice of the salvation option was and, conversely, how appealing the eventual doom option was.
Perhaps this is the secret to solving any problem. The key to the lock lies literally under one’s feet, but his mind utterly refuses to notice it. Why? The desired function is hidden behind an outward form that disgusts, disdains, hates or fears a person. Each of us has specific topics that we cannot even glance in the direction of, let alone pick up and examine thoroughly from all angles.
If this is true, then no matter how intractable your current problem in business or life may seem, you can be sure that its solution is not outside, but inside you. Then the question is not at all where to go, where to find and how to get VIP access to supposedly Secret Knowledge. The main question is what kind of transformation of yourself is needed to discover behind the unacceptable form exactly what will set you free here and now.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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