Our reaction to suffering is usually habitual; we feel cheated or resentful. Recognize suffering as suffering, then you can be curious and mindful of your reactions. We can then act without judgement and with intention, we can then start to clean up our act.
Knowledge and skill are neutral, they are to be used. That’s all. But mastery should not be used to bolster self-image. We should not allow ourselves to be categorized by what we know. It is better to free ourselves from the limits of tightly defined identities.
Attaining virtue is done by self-cultivation and by relinquishing your negative habits and attitudes. With utmost sincerity and living in the real world, extend your virtue to all. This will help you achieve self mastery and you will be able to help others do the same.
The ancients believed divination could reach the truth by moving through illusions of separation and piercing the dividing lines between mundane and spiritual experience. In those now-distant-times divination was chosen over discussion in settling matters.
Quote: We have nothing to fear but, fear itself”. I would say, “not even that”. President Roosevelt