Gracious Catastrophe: Blessing in disguise…

How can the Disaster be a Gracious Catastrophe? 

Good morning, folks! I am Jin with Morning Mindfulness Podcast. Hope you’re doing great! Let’s breathe and smile.

When I was a kid, life was so simple. Everything could be divided into good or bad categories.

As I was growing up, especially studying Martial Arts, Yoga, Taoism and later Zen, I discovered that it was more to life than I could see. It cannot be simply divided into black and white.

I see so many people put labels “Good” and “Bad” on everything. And I am guilty too. However, there’s nothing good or bad in Nature. Everything is relative, and we’ll talk more about it later.

What I also discovered, sometimes the worst nightmare turn out to be a blessing in disguise. How can you call it when a man needs to get to a very important event, like his own wedding. He gets in the car accident on his way to the airport, so he ends up in a hospital instead. Disaster? Perhaps. But later he finds out that the airplane he was supposed to fly fell down, and everybody died. Blessing?

And old man got arrested before WWII and placed in prison. Disaster? Maybe. At night german planes bombed the city. Every house was destroyed. Except prison. What would you say now? True story, BTW.

We have a tendency to judge because usually we don’t see the alternatives like in these two cases. My grandma told me, “There was no happiness, but unhappiness helped.” Something what may look totally unfair at the moment it happens, over time may prove to be the biggest blessing that could ever happen to us.

But you know what, my friend? Here’s a catch how to discover the blessing:

stop whining and complaining, reset goals and start moving

Think about that.

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Jin

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