Fears carried forward ....
Some time back I watched the movie Dragon . The movie is basically a
loose biographical sketch of the legendary Bruce Lee. It is shown in the
movie that Bruce Lee's father is persecuted by some ghost like creature
. The same creature terrorizes young Bruce . Fight as he might he cannot
escape the clutches of the brute .
So Bruce grows up , goes to US , becomes famous . It is all well known
story . Still he is not free of the ghost that keeps pursuing him where
ever he goes . His spiritual guide diagnoses the ghost as the various
unknown fears that are carried by the human beings within their own
psyche . He advises Bruce to fight the fears and get rid of them . He
warns " Else you will pass your fears on to your children as your father
did unto you . "
We have many fears , prejudices , and superstitions inscribed in our
psyche. We ourselves form a very significant part of the surroundings
for our children. If we do not continuously improve upon ourselves ,
keep shedding our fears and prejudices , we stand to pass these onto our
society and especially onto our children. Continuous betterment of self
through periodical self analysis is the only way to go . When I improve
, the society , the surrounding automatically improve .
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