Short story: Do not allow yourself to be controlled by your inner beast, but utilise its energy for good

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Sri Lanke Aurobistro, a renowned spiritual teacher, was talking about the inner self, and how everybody's inner self differs. "Each of us has a personality, and a soul, different to everyone else." "We also have a sourcepoint of our emotions too, and this is referred to as our animalistic self, or as our inner beast, as it exhibits raw emotions, usually in an uncontrolled way." "We have an animal self, and a thinking self, but the animal self is the self which can infuse us with its energy, depending on which type of animal self that we are." "Which animal drives you?" "If it is a sheep, you tend to be docile, and meek, but if you are a lion, you might have greater strength, and presence." "A sheep will stay in its pasture though, afraid to move past itself, but a lion will roam throughout everywhere, afraid of no-one, and willing to parade its way to all others." "Emptiness never comes from an emptiness of emotion unless you are dead." "Emptiness is a mindset, based around a loss of a reason to be motivated in a giving way in life." "Keeping in contact with your animal self will ensure that you always have a source of energy to work with, depending on what type of animal self that you have." "On the other hand, though, the voice of our soul self should be heard first, before the voice of our body, mind, emotions, or personality selves, are heard." "Your soul should be allowed to make full use of all of these parts of you, without you usurping its authority, and running the show, of your life, from any one, or more, particular lower parts, of yourself." And that was all he said on that occasion to his students. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com We can make good use of whatever personality we are.