Inner Enemy

I heard the Dharma talk of  inner enemy by your holiness , the Dalai Lama and realized that this is the greatest enemy of oneself. We can avoid our external enemy but for the inner enemy , it is always with us all the time and we have no choice but to live with it.

Sometimes, we call this inner enemy as our internal demon or the bad side of us or the other side of us and no matter what we label it, it is part of us.  This demon is the negative side of us.  This is the demon which undermines our confidence, confuse our mind and hurt of health. It blurs our wisdom and our understanding and turn us to vice and making bad judgements and turn ourself against people besides us.

We need to realize this point and its ca;pability and work untiringly to gradually reduce the strength of this inner enemy and eliminate it from our life if possible.

There is a body -mind combination. This means that we need to strengthen our health and our body and promote a healthy mind. One  of the tools of the demon is to use our emotions against us. If our body is unwell, we feel lousy and the emotions will gain control. Hence, we need to exercise and have proper diet to strengthen our body  and If our mind is clear , peaceful and have a good understanding of the Dharma, the combination of these two factors will be enable  us  to control our emotions by pursuing the eight fold path ie right speech , action, intention and mindfulness, etc.

Another good combination is the combination of emotions and intelliegence.  If we can realise and use these emotional intelligence in life, it will promote creativity and realization.  We will understand ourself more deeply and be more aware and conscious what we are , what we have and what we are capable of. If we can achieve this level of self realization and we would be able to actualize our thoughts through our actions.

This analogy is actually a monologue within my inner self  and using this wisdom to control my inner enemy.
Kind compassion and loving kindness.