“Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy”
— Zhuangzi
All humans are conditioned in some way as they are growing up.
When a person is conditioned in a military-type way, they lose any ability to understand the world apart from the people who beat them into submission. They become cramped & busy & never at ease. They follow their superiors without question, without understanding.
That’s the military way.
There’s a whole range of ways to raise your children, and there’s probably not one best way.
To each their own.
But I personally am less into the military-way of beating people into obedience and calling it discipline…
That’s not discipline. That’s just power beating a less powerful person into fear & submission & obedience. It’s control.
Anyway, that’s a type of way to condition a person, and there are several ways.
How can we train people to be more understanding? (& less reactive)
How can we put a healthy fear into people? & not a fear that drains a persons soul.
And what can a person with understanding achieve in their life? Inner peace, at least.
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