“How can arrogance be cured?” by Michio Kushi
How can arrogance be cured? To cure it, one should experience it. Whoever says “I am not arrogant” is arrogant; whoever says “I am arrogant” is not. If you try to attack and accuse an arrogant person in order to make him change, you will fail. The best way is simply to let him enjoy his arrogance to the full. This might cause him to lose his life, or to be destroyed, or to meet great misery, or to make enemies. This is the greatest trial. When a mother, or a teacher, or religion, says “Don’t do this, don’t do that,” it causes unhappiness and never solves anything. Moses said “Don’t” ten times and his commandments have never made anybody happier or higher. You should give unconditional freedom to others; there is only one thing which must done according to the Order of the Universe, everyone must have absolute freedom. By the accurate, eternal and perfect laws of Infinity, some will pass the test, and others will be destroyed. They will be destroyed by their arrogance, without the need of your intervention.
Michio Kushi (from the forthcoming re-release of the Order Of The Universe Booklet – “Expanding Pathways” – from lectures of Michio Kushi in 1966.
