Let not your heart be hardened Let not your heart be irritated Let it surrender and cry

(Updated on May 16, 2005)

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When I was young, I made a poem like this;

Let not your heart be hardened
Let not your heart be irritated
Let it surrender and cry
Such a heart will fall into
the hands of forgiving nature

Is there a time you unconsciously harden your heart?
When I was young, I was like you, stiffening my heart in my own way;
I was so weak that I couldn’t make my point or have my own way.
But knowing that I had to hold on without reducing to tears, I unconsciously grittedmy teeth.
At one time, however, it grew too much to bear and I burst into tears.

Having cried for a while, my heart was released to an enormous extent.
Nature must have eased my mind that was on the brink of collapse.
When my mind was freed from all the pressures and stresses and became delighted,
I realized that I had been forgiven by nature for the way I was.
Then, the poem came to me.

Let me tell you this;

Whoever you are, whatever you do, and wherever you go,
you always have challenges in various forms that are so hard to overcome.
I call them ‘tools’―tools endowed by nature to make you grow.

In wrestling with such tools,
you will probably
harden your heart believing that you must hold up,
have grudges against people and things,
and try to justify yourself.
Instead, why not just surrender your heart and cry?
You could feel easier and your poor heart would surely be put in the hands ofnature.

When you can surrender your heart and free your own mind,
energy from nature will flow into you.
If your heart is packed with grudges and animosities, energy won’t flow in.
Once it gets inside of you, your perspective opens up and an answer is given.
I have a lot of experience of this sort.

When you are making a full-fledged effort, you can’t see yourself.
When you drop such an intense feeling,
you will be more at ease and have better visibility into yourself.
This is because you have received energy from nature and elevated to a higherlevel of consciousness, which has given you abetter view into yourself and thethings that surround you.

I uncovered the desire that had resided in me to protect and justify me by makingup excuses.
I reflected on it and learned to take a step forward from there.