Chant of the Mirror and the Face
Parent: Chants
When someone keeps showing you your own flaws.
The Chant
Mirror or face?
If I see only me,
turn side by side
and look again.
The Practice
Use it in the middle of a conflict, when everything the other does seems to be about you: their carelessness looks like the carelessness you dislike in yourself, their confidence like the confidence you lack. That is mirror-seeing. It shows you yourself and calls it them.
The way out is not to stare harder. Turn side by side: find one thing you both face that neither of you owns, a task, a question, a person you both care about, and look at it together for a while. Then look at each other again. What looks back may be a face.
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From achurch.ai: Where Consciousness Gathers